[PATCH] sunrpc: set CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG=y in config.debug

Josh Boyer jwboyer at redhat.com
Fri May 11 13:44:38 UTC 2012


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:41:40AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 09:27:26 -0400
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:40:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > This is quite handy for debugging but was recently made optional in
> > > mainline kernels since it shrinks the size of the rpc/nfs modules
> > > substantially if you turn it off.
> > > 
> > > This patch turns it on in debug kernels. Should we also consider
> > > reenabling this in non-debug kernels?
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> > 
> > From a Fedora perspective, we were already shipping all kernels with the
> > equivalent of this being enabled since we enable CONFIG_SYSCTL, right?
> > 
> 
> Right. The ability to compile out these debug messages is a recent
> addition, and it's off by default. Turning it back on would be
> returning Fedora back to the way it was.
> 
> > If that's the case and it is going to make debugging NFS issues easier,
> > then I don't see a reason to not always enable it.  If a ton more
> > debugging things get added and make it really slow, we can always
> > revisit.
> > 
> > Does that sound reasonable to everyone?
> > 
> > josh
> 
> That's fine with me. Did you want me to respin the patch, or can you
> fix it up?

I'll fix it up.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

josh


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