On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:24:08AM -0600, Craig Tierney wrote:
> I have enabled debugging and tracing features in XFS
> using the 2.4.26 kernel. When I load the xfs module,
> it reports that tracing and debugging are enabled.
>
> (From dmesg)
> SGI XFS with tracing, debug enabled
> SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
>
> To enable tracing, the Configure.help file says to set
> /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf/debug. However, I could not find this
thats a slightly out-of-date doc - that variable no longer
exists. i need to update Marcelo's tree for that.
> Also, with debugging enabled, do all debug messages go to the
> kernel log?
you really want kdb enabled if you use debug/tracing, else
its not overly useful. then you'll need a serial console
too. there aren't much in the way of debug messages, its
more to provide a whole lot of runtime consistency checks.
cheers.
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Nathan
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