linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/16] dyndbg: rename __verbose section to _

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Message-ID: <80168e5bebedeb64e999ed11d8479846270bd3d7.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:42:12 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>, jbaron@...mai.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux@...musvillemoes.dk, greg@...ah.com,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] dyndbg: rename __verbose section to __dyndbg

On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 10:50 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> dyndbg populates its callsite info into __verbose section, change that
> to a more specific and descriptive name, __dyndbg.
[]
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
[]
> @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ static int __init dynamic_debug_init(void)
>  	ddebug_init_success = 1;
>  	vpr_info("%d modules, %d entries and %d bytes in ddebug tables, %d bytes in (readonly) verbose section\n",

This format should also change verbose to dyndbg
Maybe the ddebug word too

>  		 modct, entries, (int)(modct * sizeof(struct ddebug_table)),
> -		 verbose_bytes + (int)(__stop___verbose - __start___verbose));
> +		 verbose_bytes + (int)(__stop___dyndbg - __start___dyndbg));
>  
>  	/* apply ddebug_query boot param, dont unload tables on err */
>  	if (ddebug_setup_string[0] != '\0') {