Re: [PATCH] netfs: Restore selective debug mask handling

[Christian Brauner]

On Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:17:38 +0200, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The netfs debug macros test only whether netfs_debug is nonzero.
> Consequently, selecting one debug point enables every entry, exit and
> general debug message.
> 
> Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.rst and the NETFS_DEBUG
> Kconfig help still describe /sys/module/netfs/parameters/debug as a
> bitmask of per-stream function entry, exit and general debugging
> points, and the fscache_*.c files still define FSCACHE_DEBUG_LEVEL,
> but nothing has decoded either since the mask handling was dropped
> when FS-Cache was folded into netfs.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

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      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/35f4755ed06f