[PATCH] drm: Disable dynamic debug as broken

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at intel.com
Tue Feb 7 14:33:37 UTC 2023


From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

CONFIG_DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG breaks debug prints for (at least modular)
drm drivers. The debug prints can be reinstated by manually frobbing
/sys/module/drm/parameters/debug after the fact, but at that point the
damage is done and all debugs from driver probe are lost. This makes
drivers totally undebuggable.

There's a more complete fix in progress [1], with further details, but
we need this fixed in stable kernels. Mark the feature as broken and
disable it by default, with hopes distros follow suit and disable it as
well.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125203743.564009-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com

Fixes: 84ec67288c10 ("drm_print: wrap drm_*_dbg in dyndbg descriptor factory macro")
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index f42d4c6a19f2..dc0f94f02a82 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_MM
 
 config DRM_USE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG
 	bool "use dynamic debug to implement drm.debug"
-	default y
+	default n
+	depends on BROKEN
 	depends on DRM
 	depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG || DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE
 	depends on JUMP_LABEL
-- 
2.34.1



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