[PATCH 6.1 050/118] drm: Disable dynamic debug as broken

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Feb 20 13:36:06 UTC 2023


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

commit bb2ff6c27bc9e1da4d3ec5e7b1d6b9df1092cb5a upstream.

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>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230207143337.2126678-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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 315cbdf61979..9abfb482b615 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ 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
-- 
2.39.1





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