From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] twist: allow converting pr_devel()/pr_debug() into printk(KERN_DEBUG)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 12:59:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528105942.GB11286@linux-b0ei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3b30905-4497-29b4-4636-a313283dbc56@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
On Thu 2020-05-28 08:33:37, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2020/05/28 0:55, Petr Mladek wrote:
> >>> Well, it would be possible to call vsprintf() with NULL buffer. It is
> >>> normally used to calculate the length of the message before it is
> >>> printed. But it also does all the accesses without printing anything.
> >>
> >> OK. I think that redirecting pr_debug() to vsnprintf(NULL, 0) will be
> >> better than modifying dynamic_debug path, for
> >
> > It might get more complicated if you would actually want to see
> > pr_debug() messages for a selected module in the fuzzer.
>
> I don't expect that automated testing can afford selectively enabling
> DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(id) conditions. But we could evaluate all arguments
> by calling snprintf(NULL, 0) if the condition to call printk() is false.
>
> > vsprintf(NULL, ) can be called for pr_debug() messages in
> > vprintk_store(). It will be again only a single place for
> > all printk() wrappers.
>
> I couldn't catch what you mean. The problem of pr_debug() is that
> vprintk_store() might not be called because of
>
> #define no_printk(fmt, ...) \
> ({ \
> if (0) \
> printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> 0; \
> })
>
> #define pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
> no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> or
>
> #define __dynamic_func_call(id, fmt, func, ...) do { \
> DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA(id, fmt); \
> if (DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(id)) \
> func(&id, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } while (0)
>
> #define _dynamic_func_call(fmt, func, ...) \
> __dynamic_func_call(__UNIQUE_ID(ddebug), fmt, func, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> #define dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
> _dynamic_func_call(fmt, __dynamic_pr_debug, \
> pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> #define pr_debug(fmt, ...) \
> dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
That is exactly the problem. Your current patch [1] adds checks
for the CONFIG_TWIST into 15 different locations.
This is perfectly fine for testing in linux-next whether this twist
is worth the effort. But I do not like this as a long term solution.
If the testing shows that it was really helpful and you would want
to get this into Linus' tree. Then I would like to do the twist at different
level:
1. Add twist into ddebug_add_module() and enable all newly added
entries by default. For example, by calling
ddebug_exec_query("*:+p", const char *modname) or what is the syntax.
This will cause that any pr_devel() variant will always get called.
2. Add twist into vprintk_store(). In the current, implementation
it would do:
#if TWIST
return text_len;
#endif
return log_output(facility, level, lflags,
dict, dictlen, text, text_len);
Something similar would need to be done also in printk_safe().
Hot you could ignore this because it would be used only in
very few scenarios.
In the lock_less variant, we would need to format the message
into small buffer on stack to detect the log level from the first
few bytes.
The approach will cause that pr_devel() message will never get really
printed when this TWIST is enabled. But you mention that automatic
testing would not do so anyway.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528065603.3596-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 14:50 [PATCH] twist: allow converting pr_devel()/pr_debug() into printk(KERN_DEBUG) Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-24 17:38 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-24 19:18 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-05-25 5:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-25 6:07 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-25 7:38 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-05-25 8:42 ` Petr Mladek
2020-05-25 9:11 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-05-25 10:43 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-27 8:37 ` Petr Mladek
2020-05-27 10:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-27 15:55 ` Petr Mladek
2020-05-27 23:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 6:56 ` [PATCH v2] twist: allow converting pr_devel()/pr_debug() into snprintf() Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 11:06 ` Petr Mladek
2020-05-28 15:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-28 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-28 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-29 0:07 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-29 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-29 2:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-29 2:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-29 4:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-29 13:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-03 11:03 ` twist: allow disabling reboot request Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-03 12:44 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-03 13:35 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-04 10:21 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-08 7:48 ` [PATCH v2] twist: allow converting pr_devel()/pr_debug() into snprintf() Dmitry Vyukov
2020-06-08 10:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-08 11:31 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-05-29 8:17 ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-08 16:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-28 10:59 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2020-05-28 11:33 ` [PATCH] twist: allow converting pr_devel()/pr_debug() into printk(KERN_DEBUG) Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 12:14 ` Petr Mladek
2020-05-28 14:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-28 17:08 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-29 2:04 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-05-29 5:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-27 9:59 ` kbuild test robot
2020-05-27 13:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-27 12:37 ` kbuild test robot
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