linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 11/32] dyndbg: reduce verbose/debug clutter

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Message-ID: <20260129072932.2190803-12-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:28:57 -0700
From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
	Łukasz Bartosik <ukaszb@...omium.org>,
	Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>,
	Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v9 11/32] dyndbg: reduce verbose/debug clutter

currently, for verbose=3, these are logged (blank lines for clarity):

 dyndbg: query 0: "class DRM_UT_CORE +p" mod:*
 dyndbg: split into words: "class" "DRM_UT_CORE" "+p"

 dyndbg: op='+'
 dyndbg: flags=0x1
 dyndbg: *flagsp=0x1 *maskp=0xffffffff

 dyndbg: parsed: func="" file="" module="" format="" lineno=0-0 class=...
 dyndbg: no matches for query
 dyndbg: no-match: func="" file="" module="" format="" lineno=0-0 class=...
 dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 0 errs

That is excessive, so this patch:
 - shrinks 3 lines of 2nd stanza to single line
 - drops 1st 2 lines of 3rd stanza
   3rd line is like 1st, with result, not procedure.
   2nd line is just status, retold in 4th, with more info.

New output:

 dyndbg: query 0: "class DRM_UT_CORE +p" mod:*
 dyndbg: split into words: "class" "DRM_UT_CORE" "+p"
 dyndbg: op='+' flags=0x1 *flagsp=0x1 *maskp=0xffffffff
 dyndbg: no-match: func="" file="" module="" format="" lineno=0-0 class=...
 dyndbg: processed 1 queries, with 0 matches, 0 errs

Also reduce verbose=3 messages in ddebug_add_module

When modprobing a module, dyndbg currently logs/says "add-module", and
then "skipping" if the module has no prdbgs.  Instead just check 1st
and return quietly.

no functional change

Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
---
 lib/dynamic_debug.c | 21 ++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index fbe18b1f0b73..b5a3184288b0 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -276,9 +276,6 @@ static int ddebug_change(const struct ddebug_query *query,
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&ddebug_lock);
 
-	if (!nfound && verbose)
-		pr_info("no matches for query\n");
-
 	return nfound;
 }
 
@@ -511,7 +508,6 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
 		pr_err("bad flag-op %c, at start of %s\n", *str, str);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	v3pr_info("op='%c'\n", op);
 
 	for (; *str ; ++str) {
 		for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(opt_array) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
@@ -525,7 +521,6 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
-	v3pr_info("flags=0x%x\n", modifiers->flags);
 
 	/* calculate final flags, mask based upon op */
 	switch (op) {
@@ -541,7 +536,7 @@ static int ddebug_parse_flags(const char *str, struct flag_settings *modifiers)
 		modifiers->flags = 0;
 		break;
 	}
-	v3pr_info("*flagsp=0x%x *maskp=0x%x\n", modifiers->flags, modifiers->mask);
+	v3pr_info("op='%c' flags=0x%x maskp=0x%x\n", op, modifiers->flags, modifiers->mask);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -551,7 +546,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_query(char *query_string, const char *modname)
 	struct flag_settings modifiers = {};
 	struct ddebug_query query = {};
 #define MAXWORDS 9
-	int nwords, nfound;
+	int nwords;
 	char *words[MAXWORDS];
 
 	nwords = ddebug_tokenize(query_string, words, MAXWORDS);
@@ -569,10 +564,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_query(char *query_string, const char *modname)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	/* actually go and implement the change */
-	nfound = ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
-	vpr_info_dq(&query, nfound ? "applied" : "no-match");
-
-	return nfound;
+	return ddebug_change(&query, &modifiers);
 }
 
 /* handle multiple queries in query string, continue on error, return
@@ -1246,11 +1238,10 @@ static int ddebug_add_module(struct _ddebug_info *di, const char *modname)
 {
 	struct ddebug_table *dt;
 
-	v3pr_info("add-module: %s.%d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
-	if (!di->num_descs) {
-		v3pr_info(" skip %s\n", modname);
+	if (!di->num_descs)
 		return 0;
-	}
+
+	v3pr_info("add-module: %s %d sites\n", modname, di->num_descs);
 
 	dt = kzalloc(sizeof(*dt), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (dt == NULL) {
-- 
2.52.0