dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk

This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 54f21a5c262..3a1aa8a4aff 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1816,11 +1816,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         autoconfiguration.
                         Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
 
-        dynamic_printk  Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
-                        CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
-                        These can also be switched on/off via
-                        <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
-
         print-fatal-signals=
                         [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
                         print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to