linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] ppc: don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES

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Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:23:00 -0700
From:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
To:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@...il.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ppc: don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG

On 15.10.2010 [11:14:23 +1100], Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:48 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > These files undef DEBUG, but I think they were added before the ability
> > to control this from Kconfig. 
> 
> Perhaps. Some people, *cough*, have a tendency to merge those back in
> again from time to time :)
> 
> > It's really annoying to only get some of the debug messages!
> 
> True, but ..
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > Because the lpar and pci_dlpar code is pretty low-level & verbose,
> > perhaps it makes sense to add another Kconfig variable for really
> > low-level stuff? But it's annoying to have DEBUG *somewhat* effective,
> > especially in the EEH area when doing PCI stuff.
> 
> I really don't think you want to enable the lpar debug by default.
> Have you tried it? It can make for a pretty unusable system, just
> because of the console spam.

Yeah, you're right. After enabling it, I had to kill my boot and start
over w/o the lpar DEBUG on. I assume dlpar_pci is similar?

I dunno, would a patch to a least remove the EEH one be ok? Seems like
it isn't super-verbose, and does have some handy output.

> Also these days there is CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG which is much smarter than
> all this, but requires setup at runtime.

True, I started looking into it, but only realized today that eeh.c had
that #undef! :)

Thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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