From e9d376f0fa66bd630fe27403669c6ae6c22a868f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Baron Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:51:38 -0500 Subject: dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'. The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface, (an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function, file, module, format string, and line number. for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack': echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control to disable them: echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1bcf9cd4baa0..0dd1c04c7323 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ config BUILD_DOCSRC Say N if you are unsure. -config DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG +config DYNAMIC_DEBUG bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support" default n depends on PRINTK -- cgit v1.2.3 From 86151fdf38b3795f292b39defbff39d2684b9c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Baron Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:53:15 -0500 Subject: dynamic debug: update docs updates the documentation for 'dynamic debug' feature. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 72 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..68394825e86b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,232 @@ + +Introduction +============ + +This document describes how to use the dynamic debug (ddebug) feature. + +Dynamic debug is designed to allow you to dynamically enable/disable kernel +code to obtain additional kernel information. Currently, if +CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set, then all pr_debug()/dev_debug() calls can be +dynamically enabled per-callsite. + +Dynamic debug has even more useful features: + + * Simple query language allows turning on and off debugging statements by + matching any combination of: + + - source filename + - function name + - line number (including ranges of line numbers) + - module name + - format string + + * Provides a debugfs control file: /dynamic_debug/control which can be + read to display the complete list of known debug statements, to help guide you + +Controlling dynamic debug Behaviour +=============================== + +The behaviour of pr_debug()/dev_debug()s are controlled via writing to a +control file in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, you must first mount the debugfs +filesystem, in order to make use of this feature. Subsequently, we refer to the +control file as: /dynamic_debug/control. For example, if you want to +enable printing from source file 'svcsock.c', line 1603 you simply do: + +nullarbor:~ # echo 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +If you make a mistake with the syntax, the write will fail thus: + +nullarbor:~ # echo 'file svcsock.c wtf 1 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control +-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument + +Viewing Dynamic Debug Behaviour +=========================== + +You can view the currently configured behaviour of all the debug statements +via: + +nullarbor:~ # cat /dynamic_debug/control +# filename:lineno [module]function flags format +/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svc_rdma.c:323 [svcxprt_rdma]svc_rdma_cleanup - "SVCRDMA\040Module\040Removed,\040deregister\040RPC\040RDMA\040transport\012" +/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svc_rdma.c:341 [svcxprt_rdma]svc_rdma_init - "\011max_inline\040\040\040\040\040\040\040:\040%d\012" +/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svc_rdma.c:340 [svcxprt_rdma]svc_rdma_init - "\011sq_depth\040\040\040\040\040\040\040\040\040:\040%d\012" +/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svc_rdma.c:338 [svcxprt_rdma]svc_rdma_init - "\011max_requests\040\040\040\040\040:\040%d\012" +... + + +You can also apply standard Unix text manipulation filters to this +data, e.g. + +nullarbor:~ # grep -i rdma /dynamic_debug/control | wc -l +62 + +nullarbor:~ # grep -i tcp /dynamic_debug/control | wc -l +42 + +Note in particular that the third column shows the enabled behaviour +flags for each debug statement callsite (see below for definitions of the +flags). The default value, no extra behaviour enabled, is "-". So +you can view all the debug statement callsites with any non-default flags: + +nullarbor:~ # awk '$3 != "-"' /dynamic_debug/control +# filename:lineno [module]function flags format +/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c:1603 [sunrpc]svc_send p "svc_process:\040st_sendto\040returned\040%d\012" + + +Command Language Reference +========================== + +At the lexical level, a command comprises a sequence of words separated +by whitespace characters. Note that newlines are treated as word +separators and do *not* end a command or allow multiple commands to +be done together. So these are all equivalent: + +nullarbor:~ # echo -c 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control +nullarbor:~ # echo -c ' file svcsock.c line 1603 +p ' > + /dynamic_debug/control +nullarbor:~ # echo -c 'file svcsock.c\nline 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +Commands are bounded by a write() system call. If you want to do +multiple commands you need to do a separate "echo" for each, like: + +nullarbor:~ # echo 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > /proc/dprintk ;\ +> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1563 +p' > /proc/dprintk + +or even like: + +nullarbor:~ # ( +> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' ;\ +> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1563 +p' ;\ +> ) > /proc/dprintk + +At the syntactical level, a command comprises a sequence of match +specifications, followed by a flags change specification. + +command ::= match-spec* flags-spec + +The match-spec's are used to choose a subset of the known dprintk() +callsites to which to apply the flags-spec. Think of them as a query +with implicit ANDs between each pair. Note that an empty list of +match-specs is possible, but is not very useful because it will not +match any debug statement callsites. + +A match specification comprises a keyword, which controls the attribute +of the callsite to be compared, and a value to compare against. Possible +keywords are: + +match-spec ::= 'func' string | + 'file' string | + 'module' string | + 'format' string | + 'line' line-range + +line-range ::= lineno | + '-'lineno | + lineno'-' | + lineno'-'lineno +// Note: line-range cannot contain space, e.g. +// "1-30" is valid range but "1 - 30" is not. + +lineno ::= unsigned-int + +The meanings of each keyword are: + +func + The given string is compared against the function name + of each callsite. Example: + + func svc_tcp_accept + +file + The given string is compared against either the full + pathname or the basename of the source file of each + callsite. Examples: + + file svcsock.c + file /usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c + +module + The given string is compared against the module name + of each callsite. The module name is the string as + seen in "lsmod", i.e. without the directory or the .ko + suffix and with '-' changed to '_'. Examples: + + module sunrpc + module nfsd + +format + The given string is searched for in the dynamic debug format + string. Note that the string does not need to match the + entire format, only some part. Whitespace and other + special characters can be escaped using C octal character + escape \ooo notation, e.g. the space character is \040. + Examples: + + format svcrdma: // many of the NFS/RDMA server dprintks + format readahead // some dprintks in the readahead cache + format nfsd:\040SETATTR // how to match a format with whitespace + +line + The given line number or range of line numbers is compared + against the line number of each dprintk() callsite. A single + line number matches the callsite line number exactly. A + range of line numbers matches any callsite between the first + and last line number inclusive. An empty first number means + the first line in the file, an empty line number means the + last number in the file. Examples: + + line 1603 // exactly line 1603 + line 1600-1605 // the six lines from line 1600 to line 1605 + line -1605 // the 1605 lines from line 1 to line 1605 + line 1600- // all lines from line 1600 to the end of the file + +The flags specification comprises a change operation followed +by one or more flag characters. The change operation is one +of the characters: + +- + remove the given flags + ++ + add the given flags + += + set the flags to the given flags + +The flags are: + +p + Causes a printk() message to be emitted to dmesg + +Note the regexp ^[-+=][scp]+$ matches a flags specification. +Note also that there is no convenient syntax to remove all +the flags at once, you need to use "-psc". + +Examples +======== + +// enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +// enable all the messages in file svcsock.c +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +// enable all the messages in the NFS server module +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +// enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > + /dynamic_debug/control + +// disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() +nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > + /dynamic_debug/control diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 0dd1c04c7323..8fee0a13ac58 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -848,59 +848,69 @@ config BUILD_DOCSRC Say N if you are unsure. config DYNAMIC_DEBUG - bool "Enable dynamic printk() call support" + bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" default n depends on PRINTK + depends on DEBUG_FS select PRINTK_DEBUG help Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be - enabled/disabled on a per module basis. This mechanism implicitly - enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of this - compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%. + enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, + function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism + implicitly enables all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. The impact of + this compile option is a larger kernel text size of about 2%. Usage: - Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, - dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that - can be enabled. The format of the file is the module name, followed - by a set of flags that can be enabled. The first flag is always the - 'enabled' flag. For example: + Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/ddebug' file, + which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem. Thus, the debugfs + filesystem must first be mounted before making use of this feature. + We refer the control file as: /dynamic_debug/ddebug. This + file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The + format for each line of the file is: - - . - . - . + filename:lineno [module]function flags format - : Name of the module in which the debug call resides - : whether the messages are enabled or not + filename : source file of the debug statement + lineno : line number of the debug statement + module : module that contains the debug statement + function : function that contains the debug statement + flags : 'p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing + format : the format used for the debug statement From a live system: - snd_hda_intel enabled=0 - fixup enabled=0 - driver enabled=0 + nullarbor:~ # cat /dynamic_debug/ddebug + # filename:lineno [module]function flags format + fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx - "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" + fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc - "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" + fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel - "calling\040cancel\012" - Enable a module: + Example usage: - $echo "set enabled=1 " > dynamic_printk/modules + // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug - Disable a module: + // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug - $echo "set enabled=0 " > dynamic_printk/modules + // enable all the messages in the NFS server module + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug - Enable all modules: + // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug - $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules + // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > + /dynamic_debug/ddebug - Disable all modules: - - $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules - - Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables - debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above - disable command. + See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for additional information. source "samples/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.2.3