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From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
To: jbaron@akamai.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linuxfoundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 15/21] dyndbg: export ddebug_exec_queries
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:25:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617162536.611386-18-jim.cromie@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200617162536.611386-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com>

Exporting ddebug_exec_queries will allow module authors using dynamic
debug to actually control/enable/disable their own pr-debug callsites
dynamically.

With it, module authors can tie any update of their internal debug
variables to a corresponding ddebug_exec_queries invocation, which
will modify all their selected callsites accordingly.

Generally, authors would exec +p or -p on some subsets of their set of
callsites, and leave fmlt flags for user to choose the appropriate
amount of structural context desired in the logs.

Depending upon the user needs, the module might be known, and
therefore a waste of screen width, function would be valuable, file
would be long and familiar to the author, etc..  That said, author
could harness the message-prefix facility if they saw fit to do so.
Any author preferences can be overridden with echo >control

Is it safe ?

ddebug_exec_queries() is currently 'exposed' to user space in
several limited ways;

1 it is called from module-load callback, where it implements the
  $modname.dyndbg=+p "fake" parameter provided to all modules.

2 it handles query input from >control directly

IOW, it is "fully" exposed to local root user; exposing the same
functionality to other kernel modules is no additional risk.

The other big issue to check is locking:

dyndbg has a single mutex, taken by ddebug_change to handle >control,
and by ddebug_proc_(start|stop) to span `cat control`.  ISTM this
proposed export presents no locking problems.

drm use case:

drm.debug=0x03 appears to be a kernel boot-arg example, setting 2
internal debug flags.  Each bit is probably controlling a separate
subset of all debug-prints, they may be overlapping subsets.

Those subsets are *definitely* expressible as a few dyndbg queries
each.  Any arbitrary subset is.

   drm.dyndbg='file drm_gem_* +p'	# gem debug
   drm.dyndbg='file *_gem_* +p'		# *gem debug

With this proposed export, drm authors could exec these examples, most
likely in the callback that handles updates to the drm.debug variable.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
 lib/dynamic_debug.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
index e1dd96178f18..ff97938b5849 100644
--- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
+++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static int ddebug_exec_queries(char *query, const char *modname)
 		return exitcode;
 	return nfound;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ddebug_exec_queries);
 
 #define PREFIX_SIZE 64
 
-- 
2.26.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-17 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17 16:25 [PATCH v3 00/21] dynamic_debug cleanups, query features, export Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 01/21] dyndbg-docs: eschew file /full/path query in docs Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 02/21] dyndbg-docs: initialization is done early, not arch Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 03/21] dyndbg: drop obsolete comment on ddebug_proc_open Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 04/21] dyndbg: refine debug verbosity; 1 is basic, 2 more chatty Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 05/21] dyndbg: rename __verbose section to __dyndbg Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 06/21] dyndbg: fix overcounting of ram used by dyndbg Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 07/21] dyndbg: fix a BUG_ON in ddebug_describe_flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 08/21] dyndbg: fix pr_err with empty string Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 09/21] dyndbg: prefer declarative init in caller, to memset in callee Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 10/21] dyndbg: make ddebug_tables list LIFO for add/remove_module Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 11/21] dyndbg: use gcc ?: to reduce word count Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 12/21] dyndbg: refactor parse_linerange out of ddebug_parse_query Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 13/21] dyndbg: accept 'file foo.c:func1' and 'file foo.c:10-100' Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] dyndbg: accept query terms like file=bar and module=foo Jim Cromie
2020-06-18 22:25   ` jim.cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] dyndbg: accept query terms like file=bar module=foo Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] dyndbg: accept query terms like module:foo and file=bar Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` Jim Cromie [this message]
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 16/21] dyndbg: combine flags & mask into a struct, simplify with it Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 17/21] dyndbg: refactor ddebug_read_flags out of ddebug_parse_flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 18/21] dyndbg: add filter channel to the internals Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 19/21] dyndbg: extend ddebug_parse_flags to accept optional leading filter-flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-18 12:44   ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-18 14:54     ` jim.cromie
2020-06-18 16:01       ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 20/21] dyndbg: add user-flag, negating-flags, and filtering on flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 22:13   ` Joe Perches
2020-06-17 22:57     ` jim.cromie
2020-06-18 16:19   ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-18 17:40     ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-18 18:17       ` Jason Baron
2020-06-18 19:11         ` jim.cromie
2020-06-18 19:40           ` Jason Baron
2020-06-18 21:31             ` jim.cromie
2020-06-18 22:34             ` Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-18 22:48               ` jim.cromie
2020-06-19 16:07                 ` Jason Baron
2020-06-19  7:45           ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-19  8:10             ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-19  8:34               ` Greg KH
2020-06-18 18:15     ` jim.cromie
2020-06-17 16:25 ` [PATCH v3 21/21] dyndbg: allow negating flag-chars in modifier flags Jim Cromie
2020-06-17 20:05 ` [PATCH v3 00/21] dynamic_debug cleanups, query features, export Rasmus Villemoes

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