Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:20:45 +0200 | From | Ville Syrjälä <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/7] drm: mark drm.debug-on-dyndbg as BROKEN for now |
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 03:17:09PM -0700, Jim Cromie wrote: > drm.debug-on-dyndbg has a regression, due to a chicken-egg > initialization problem: > > 1- modprobe i915 > i915 needs drm.ko, which is loaded 1st > > 2- "modprobe drm drm.debug=0x1ff" (virtual/implied) > drm.debug is set post-initialization, from boot-args etc > > 3- `modprobe i915` finishes > > W/O drm.debug-on-dyndbg that just works, because all drm_dbg* > callsites use drm_debug_enabled() to check __drm_debug & DEM_UT_<CAT> > before printing. > > But the whole point of drm.debug-on-dyndbg is to avoid that runtime > test, by enabling (at post-modinit) a static-key at each callsite in > the just-loaded module. > > And since drm.ko is loaded before all dependent modules, none are > "just-loaded", and no drm.debug callsites are present yet, except > those in drm.ko itself. > > Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > index 34f5a092c99e..0d1e59e6bb7e 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_MM > config DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG > bool "use dynamic debug to implement drm.debug" > default y
Could you switch to 'default n' as well? i915 CI actually enables BROKEN so that we can test some more experimental stuff which is hidden behind BROKEN for normal users.
> + depends on BROKEN # chicken-egg initial enable problem > depends on DRM > depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG || DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE > depends on JUMP_LABEL > -- > 2.38.1
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