[PATCH v9-resend 23/54] docs/dyndbg: explain new delimiters: comma, percent

Jim Cromie jim.cromie at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 14:57:35 EDT 2024


Add mention of comma and percent delimiters into the respective
paragraphs describing their equivalents: space and newline.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com>
---
 .../admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst        | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
index 742eb4230c6e..7b570f29ae98 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
@@ -73,16 +73,18 @@ Command Language Reference
 ==========================
 
 At the basic lexical level, a command is a sequence of words separated
-by spaces or tabs.  So these are all equivalent::
+by spaces, tabs, or commas.  So these are all equivalent::
 
   :#> ddcmd file svcsock.c line 1603 +p
   :#> ddcmd "file svcsock.c line 1603 +p"
   :#> ddcmd '  file   svcsock.c     line  1603 +p  '
+  :#> ddcmd file,svcsock.c,line,1603,+p
 
-Command submissions are bounded by a write() system call.
-Multiple commands can be written together, separated by ``;`` or ``\n``::
+Command submissions are bounded by a write() system call.  Multiple
+commands can be written together, separated by ``%``, ``;`` or ``\n``::
 
-  :#> ddcmd "func pnpacpi_get_resources +p; func pnp_assign_mem +p"
+  :#> ddcmd func foo +p % func bar +p
+  :#> ddcmd func foo +p \; func bar +p
   :#> ddcmd <<"EOC"
   func pnpacpi_get_resources +p
   func pnp_assign_mem +p
@@ -104,7 +106,6 @@ The match-spec's select *prdbgs* from the catalog, upon which to apply
 the flags-spec, all constraints are ANDed together.  An absent keyword
 is the same as keyword "*".
 
-
 A match specification is a keyword, which selects the attribute of
 the callsite to be compared, and a value to compare against.  Possible
 keywords are:::
@@ -128,7 +129,6 @@ keywords are:::
   ``line-range`` cannot contain space, e.g.
   "1-30" is valid range but "1 - 30" is not.
 
-
 The meanings of each keyword are:
 
 func
@@ -153,9 +153,11 @@ module
     The given string is compared against the module name
     of each callsite.  The module name is the string as
     seen in ``lsmod``, i.e. without the directory or the ``.ko``
-    suffix and with ``-`` changed to ``_``.  Examples::
+    suffix and with ``-`` changed to ``_``.
+
+    Examples::
 
-	module sunrpc
+	module,sunrpc	# with ',' as token separator
 	module nfsd
 	module drm*	# both drm, drm_kms_helper
 
-- 
2.45.2




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