It's currently nigh impossible to get these pr_debug()s to print something. Being guarded by initcall_debug means one has to enable tons of other debug output during boot, and the system_state condition further means it's impossible to get them when loading modules later. Also, the compiler can't know that these global conditions do not change, so there are W=2 warnings kernel/async.c:125:9: warning: `calltime' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] kernel/async.c:300:9: warning: `starttime' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Make it possible, for a DYNAMIC_DEBUG kernel, to get these to print their messages by booting with appropriate 'dyndbg="file async.c +p"' command line argument. For a non-DYNAMIC_DEBUG kernel, pr_debug() compiles to nothing. This does cost doing an unconditional ktime_get() for the starttime value, but the corresponding ktime_get for the end time can be elided by factoring it into a function which only gets called if the printk() arguments end up being evaluated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210309151723.1907838-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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