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| author | Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> | 2009-06-02 16:45:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> | 2009-06-02 16:45:02 +0200 |
| commit | bdc2911cde7d18580a545483844d75fdb3551729 (patch) | |
| tree | 53e6df89e8a0255f7fd749b33e27d76746edc687 /Documentation | |
| parent | 88f3907f6f447899544beadf491dccb32015dacb (diff) | |
| parent | 016ea6874a6d58df85b54f56997d26df13c307b2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bdc2911cde7d18580a545483844d75fdb3551729.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branches 'dma-debug/fixes' and 'dma-debug/driver-filter' into dma-debug/2.6.31
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index d9aa43d78bcc..25fb8bcf32a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -704,12 +704,24 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found: The current number of free dma_debug_entries in the allocator. + dma-api/driver-filter + You can write a name of a driver into this file + to limit the debug output to requests from that + particular driver. Write an empty string to + that file to disable the filter and see + all errors again. + If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default. If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide 'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging. Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do so. +If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can +specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the +driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that +driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs. + When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e87bdbfbcc75..b3f1314588c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -646,6 +646,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the architectural default is too low. + dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> + With this option the DMA-API debugging driver + filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just + pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. + The filter can be disabled or changed to another + driver later using sysfs. + dscc4.setup= [NET] dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] |