lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:07:52 +0200
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ehci dynamic debug problem

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:41:39PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:54:24AM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:03:11PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >   Does dynamic debug offer an "is the message two lines below enabled" test?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry was away for a bit...
> > > 
> > > dynamic debug doesn't offer any is enabled test, its hidden from the
> > > user. That said, in this case, you can delay the printing to the buffer
> > > with:
> > ...
> > > +	ehci_dbg (ehci, "%s\n", dbg_port_buf (_buf, sizeof _buf, label, port, status)); \
> > 
> > I think arguments are evaluated before dev_dbg is called so this
> > won't help.
> 
> I looked at the disassembly - and this argument was in fact *not* evaluated
> before the call. So I think this approach is worthwhile.

OK, I was in a hurry before but now that I looked at
dynamic_dev_dbg() definition in include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
I see that it works.  IMHO it's a good solution.


Thank you,
Johannes
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ