linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8-RESEND 15/33] dyndbg-API: fix DECLARE_DYNDBG

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Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:31:15 -0600
From: jim.cromie@...il.com
To: Łukasz Bartosik <ukaszb@...omium.org>
Cc: jbaron@...mai.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8-RESEND 15/33] dyndbg-API: fix DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 5:46 AM Łukasz Bartosik <ukaszb@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP() has a design error; its usage fails a basic
> > K&R rule: "define once, refer many times".
> >
> > It is used across DRM core & drivers, each use re-defines the classmap
> > understood by that module; and all must match for the modules to
> > respond together when DRM.debug categories are enabled.  This is
> > brittle; a maintenance foot-gun.
> >
> > Worse, it causes the CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=Y regression; 1st
> > drm.ko loads, and dyndbg initializes its DRM.debug callsites, then a
> > drm-driver loads, but too late - it missed the DRM.debug enablement.
> >
> > So replace it with 2 macros:
> >   DYNDBG_CLASSMAP_DEFINE - invoked once from core - drm.ko
> >   DYNDBG_CLASSMAP_USE    - from all drm drivers and helpers.

>
> Why does DYNDBG_CLASSMAP_DEFINE take "stringified" enum name-vals ?
>

short version:

real enum vals would be better - misspellings would be compiler errors
but doing the stringification inside the macro doesnt work,
 __stringify(__VA__ARGS__) produces "DRM_UT_CORE, DRM_UT_DRIVER" etc,
not 10 separate stringifications

I have a patchset for later that fixes this,
but I didnt want to complicate this submission any further.
Its already touching 2 sub-systems, revising and adding API


> > -         This module registers a tracer callback to count enabled
> > -         pr_debugs in a 'do_debugging' function, then alters their
> > -         enablements, calls the function, and compares counts.
> > +         This module exersizes/demonstrates dyndbg's classmap API, by
>
> Typo exersizes -> exercises
>

yes

> > +static void ddebug_apply_params(const struct ddebug_class_map *cm, const char *modnm)
> > +{
> > +       const struct kernel_param *kp;
> > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES)
>
> Instead of the above maybe use "if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES)) {" ?
> This will allow to get rid of #if and #endif which make code less readable.
>

will do.

> > +       int i;
> > +