Re: [PATCH 0/3] dynamic_hex_dump cleanup

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 15:19 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 14:52 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 14:28 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> > > > > > More than one driver has worked around the fact that
>> > > > > > print_hex_dump_debug() requires CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y to build.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > No it doesn't.  builds work fine.  Output is restricted.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Provide a dynamic_hex_dump() so that drivers that want the extra debugging to be
>> > > > > > turned off in the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=n can use dynamic_hex_dump()
>> > > > > > directly.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I think the concept is unnecessary
>> > > > > .
>> > > > > Just use print_hex_dump with KERN_DEBUG.
>> > > >
>> > > > No, we don't want any possibility of output in the
>> > > > CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=n case. This is extra debug that only makes sense
>> > > > in the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG case.
>> > >
>> > > No, that doesn't work the same.
>> > >
>> > > Look at your conversion of drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
>> > >
>> > > dev_dbg outputs always when DEBUG is defined and
>> > > optionally outputs when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled.
>> >
>> > Right, that's what I want dev_dbg() to output at KERN_DEBUG level
>> > always and the hexdump only in the dynamic case.
>>
>> Joe, I'm trying to understand your objection. What you are proposing
>> is that the debug output is present at the KERN_DEBUG level in the
>> CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=n case and that's not what either use case wants.
>> What breaks by letting users call dynamic_hex_dump() directly?
>
> Call it hex_dump_dbg and I have no objections.

...but again, hex_dump_dbg() implies to me dev_dbg() behavior, i.e.
that the hexdump happens in the KERN_DEBUG case which I don't want. I
want the call to be compiled out completely when it can't be
enabled/disabled dynamically.

> The "dynamicism" is a side effect of not having DEBUG
> defined.  dev_dbg will emit if DEBUG is declared regardless
> of dynamic_debug.
>
> This new function should have the same behavior.

I think we do need a hex_dump_dbg(), but that does not eliminate the
utility of / need for dynamic_hex_dump().