linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/12] perf, tools, probe: Support a quiet argument for debug info open

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Message-Id: <20171130113657.65a50277f9bafdaaae488cf9@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:36:57 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] perf, tools, probe: Support a quiet argument for
 debug info open

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:39:43 -0800
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:14:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:23:15 -0800
> > Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Add a extra quiet argument to the debug info open / probe finder
> > > code that allows perf script to make them quieter. Otherwise
> > > we may end up with too many error messages when lots of
> > > instructions fail debug info parsing.
> > 
> > IMHO, this kind of simple suppress warning message would better
> > be done with pr_* implementation (or its macro) since there
> > maybe new message added or other function which has warning
> > messages can be called in the future.
> 
> Do you really mean adding a special pr_ / global just for this case?

I thought that we could control it by changing "verbose" global variables.
Something like inc_verbose() & dec_verbose() macros will help us to
suppress warning/debug messages temporary.

Thank you,

> 
> Seems less clean to me, but I can do it.
> 
> -Andi


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>