[PATCH 1/5] Add generic debug option

[Cong Wang]

On 03/13/2012 08:21 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:39:38PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Currently the debugging code is under #ifdef DEBUG, which
>> means when we want to debug, we have to re-compile the source
>> code with -DDEBUG. This is not convenient, we want to have
>> a generic --debug option so that we can enable debugging code
>> without re-compiling.
>>
>> This patch moves the arch-specific --debug to generic place
>> and moves code under #ifdef DEBUG to --debug on x86.
>>
>> BTW, the size of kexec binary increases very little after this patch.
>
> Hi Cong,
>
> In general I am happy with making kexec easier to use.  However, it would
> be nice not to make kexec-tools even bigger than it already is. Its size
> already seems to be an issue for some people on ARM at least.  Do you
> have some feeling for the change in binary size on architectures other than
> i386?
>

Hi,

I only tested the patches on x86 and ppc.

Sorry I don't have a chance to test it on ARM, on ARM it just adds a 
small function dump_memory_ranges(), if this would be a problem, feel 
free to drop patch 3/5. :)

Thanks.