Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_alloc: dump migrate-failed pages

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Mar 10 2021 - 11:00:42 EST


On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:04:55PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:

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> > > Also are all those CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG* ifdefs necessary? Can we
> > > simply enable DYNAMIC_DEBUG for page_alloc as I've suggested above?
> >
> > They are different usecases.
> >
> > With DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE,
> > it works for only specific compile flags as you suggested.
> > (CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE is requirement to work DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE.
> >
> > With CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG, user could enable/disable every dynamic
> > debug places without needing DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE flags for source
> > files.
> >
> > Both usecase makes sense to me.
>
> Well, this is more of a question for dynamic debugging maintainers. But
> it would be really great to reduce the ifdefery as much as possible.

I don't understand why this is something particular case which is okay
to lose either way to make dyndbg dynamic.