loglevel 7 (debug) and pr_debug()

Martin Kepplinger martink at posteo.de
Wed Apr 16 07:11:09 EDT 2014


Am 16.04.2014 11:58 schrieb Arun KS:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Martin Kepplinger <martink at posteo.de> 
> wrote:
>> Am 2014-04-16 11:00, schrieb Arun KS:
>>> Hi Martin,
>  >>
>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Martin Kepplinger 
>>> <martink at posteo.de> wrote:
>>>> I'm on Debian here and I don't really get pr_debug and 
>>>> printk(KERN_DEBUG
>  >>> ...). Let's stick to pr_debug.
>>>> 
>>>> I have DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled and
>>>> root at laptop:/proc/sys/kernel# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
>>>> 7       7       1       7
>  >> This shows the console log level.
>>> This file controls the traffic to console. But all the log messages
>>> will be present in logbuf.
>> 
>> How do I view debug messages from logbuf?
>  >
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I write a module with pr_debug's. I load the module and I *don't* 
>>>> see
>>>> anything in /var/log/messages (or anywhere in /var/log/* ). Adding
>>>> #define DEBUG doesn't help.
>  >>>
>>>> /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control has the pr_debug entries I 
>>>> use
>>>> in my loaded module.
>>>> 
>>>> In short: How do I see debug log messages? Using pr_info() works as
>  >>> expected. What am I missing? Do I need to edit my Makefile?
>>> Did you enable dynamic printing for your file?
>>> 
>>> Below command enables dynamic printing for file sdhci.c.
>>> echo 'file sdhci.c +p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
>  >
>> well. I tried that. The thing is, the pr_debug() symbols are in
>> "control" only after "insmod my_module". Then I can echo -n 'file
>> my_mobule.c +p' > control
>> But my pr_debug() messages get printed directly after insmod, 
>> basically
>  > in my module_init function. Enabling my file doesn't output 
> anything in
>> /var/log/*
> So now you know why your pr_debug is absent in logbuf.
> 
> You can make your module as a built in and use bootargs.
> 
> eg:
> dyndbg="file your_filename.c +p"
> 
> Thanks,
> Arun
> 

So it's *not* possible at all to get pr_debug() messages just like 
pr_info() messages?
Of what I've read, I assumed pr_debug() is just loglevel 7.

thanks for your help!

>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arun
>>>> 
>>>> thanks!
>>>>                      martin
>  >>>
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