From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] usb: early: add driver for xhci debug capability
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:37:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <592F8BF3.4070004@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <baf09de3-bff9-0afb-bd97-757c18a141e7@suse.cz>
Hi,
On 05/31/2017 05:38 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 05/31/2017 05:27 AM, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05/30/2017 09:46 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> On 03/21/2017 09:01 AM, Lu Baolu wrote:
>>>> XHCI debug capability (DbC) is an optional but standalone
>>>> functionality provided by an xHCI host controller. Software
>>>> learns this capability by walking through the extended
>>>> capability list of the host. XHCI specification describes
>>>> DbC in the section 7.6.
>>>>
>>>> This patch introduces the code to probe and initialize the
>>>> debug capability hardware during early boot. With hardware
>>>> initialized, the debug target (system on which this code is
>>>> running) will present a debug device through the debug port
>>>> (normally the first USB3 port). The debug device is fully
>>>> compliant with the USB framework and provides the equivalent
>>>> of a very high performance (USB3) full-duplex serial link
>>>> between the debug host and target. The DbC functionality is
>>>> independent of the xHCI host. There isn't any precondition
>>>> from the xHCI host side for the DbC to work.
>>>>
>>>> One use for this feature is kernel debugging, for example
>>>> when your machine crashes very early before the regular
>>>> console code is initialized. Other uses include simpler,
>>>> lockless logging instead of a full-blown printk console
>>>> driver and klogd.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +#define XDBC_TRACE
>>>> +#ifdef XDBC_TRACE
>>>> +#define xdbc_trace trace_printk
>>> Did you forget to remove the #define XDBC_TRACE?
>>>
>>> Enabling this driver brings the "trace_printk() being used. Allocating
>>> extra memory. This means that this is a DEBUG kernel and it is unsafe
>>> for production use." message in 4.12-rcX dmesg.
>> This feature is only for a DEBUG kernel, should not be enabled for
>> any production kernel. This was the reason I enabled trace_printk()
>> by default.
> Hmm, but it seems we generally enable all these early printk
> features/drivers in our distro kernels. They are not active without a
> early_printk=X bootparam anyway, right? It's much more convenient to
> e.g. just tell customer to change a param when debugging something than
> to install a debug kernel. So I wouldn't agree that only a DEBUG kernel
> should have this compiled in.
Okay, I will try to find a fix.
Best regards,
Lu Baolu
>
> Thanks,
> Vlastimil
>
>> Best regards,
>> Lu Baolu
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vlastimil
>>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 8:01 [PATCH v8 0/5] usb: early: add support for early printk through USB3 debug port Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 8:01 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] x86: add simple udelay calibration Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 12:19 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/timers: Add " tip-bot for Lu Baolu
2017-05-24 16:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2017-05-25 0:49 ` Lu Baolu
2017-05-02 22:38 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] x86: add " Boris Ostrovsky
2017-05-05 5:41 ` Lu Baolu
2017-05-05 12:50 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-07-12 8:02 ` Dou Liyang
2017-07-13 1:17 ` Lu Baolu
2017-07-13 1:39 ` Dou Liyang
2017-07-13 3:00 ` Lu Baolu
2017-07-14 3:21 ` Dou Liyang
2017-03-21 8:01 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] usb: early: add driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 12:19 ` [tip:x86/debug] usb/early: Add " tip-bot for Lu Baolu
2017-05-30 13:46 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] usb: early: add " Vlastimil Babka
2017-05-31 3:27 ` Lu Baolu
2017-05-31 6:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-06-01 3:35 ` Lu Baolu
2017-05-31 9:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-06-01 3:37 ` Lu Baolu [this message]
2017-06-01 8:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-06-01 12:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-06-02 0:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-03-21 8:01 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] x86: add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 12:20 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/earlyprintk: Add " tip-bot for Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 8:01 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] usb: serial: add dbc debug device support to usb_debug Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 12:21 ` [tip:x86/debug] usb/serial: Add DBC " tip-bot for Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 8:01 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] usb: doc: add document for USB3 debug port usage Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 12:21 ` [tip:x86/debug] usb/doc: Add " tip-bot for Lu Baolu
2017-03-21 11:33 ` [PATCH v8 0/5] usb: early: add support for early printk through USB3 debug port Ingo Molnar
2017-03-21 12:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-21 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-03-22 2:23 ` Lu Baolu
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