[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/13] log: Add a new logging feature

[Simon Glass]

U-Boot currently has fairly rudimentary logging features. A basic printf()
provides console output and debug() provides debug output which is
activated if DEBUG is defined in the file containing the debug()
statements.

It would be useful to have a few more features:

- control of debug output at runtime, so  problems can potentially be
debugged without recompiling U-Boot
- control of which subsystems output debug information, so that (for
example) it is possible to enable debugging for MMC or SATA at runtime
- indication of severity with each message, so that the user can control
whether just errors are displayed, warnings, or all debug messages
- sending logging information to different destinations, such as console,
memory, linux, etc,

At present U-Boot has a logbuffer feature which records output in a memory
buffer for later display or storage. This is useful but is not at present
enabled for any board.

This series introduced a new logging system which supports:
- various log levels from panic to debug
- log categories including all uclasses and a few others
- log drivers to which all log records can be sent
- log filters which control which log records make it to which drivers

Enabling logging with the default options does not add much to code size.
By default the maximum recorded log level is LOGL_INFO, meaning that debug
messages (and above) are discarded a build-time. Increasing this level
provides more run-time flexibility to enable/disable logging at the cost
of increased code size.

This feature is by no means finished. The README provides a long list of
features and clean-ups that could be done. But hopefully this is a
starting point for improving this important area in U-Boot.

The series is available at u-boot-dm/log-working


Simon Glass (13):
  Revert "sandbox: remove os_putc() and os_puts()"
  Revert "sandbox: Drop special case console code for sandbox"
  Move debug and logging support to a separate header
  mtdparts: Correct use of debug()
  Drop the log buffer
  log: Add an implemention of logging
  log: Add a console driver
  log: Add a 'log level' command
  log: Add a test command
  log: Plumb logging into the init sequence
  log: sandbox: Enable logging
  log: test: Add a pytest for logging
  log: Add documentation

 MAINTAINERS                       |   9 ++
 arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c             |  11 ++
 cmd/Kconfig                       |   8 +
 cmd/Makefile                      |   2 +-
 cmd/log.c                         | 326 +++++---------------------------------
 cmd/mtdparts.c                    |   3 -
 common/Kconfig                    |  86 ++++++++++
 common/Makefile                   |   2 +
 common/board_f.c                  |  23 +--
 common/board_r.c                  |  27 +---
 common/console.c                  |   7 +
 common/image.c                    |   9 --
 common/log.c                      | 247 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 common/log_console.c              |  23 +++
 common/stdio.c                    |   6 -
 configs/sandbox_defconfig         |   5 +-
 doc/README.log                    | 220 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/asm-generic/global_data.h |   8 +-
 include/common.h                  |  64 +-------
 include/log.h                     | 311 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/logbuff.h                 |  49 ------
 include/os.h                      |  20 +++
 include/post.h                    |   4 +-
 post/post.c                       |   9 --
 post/tests.c                      |   4 -
 scripts/config_whitelist.txt      |   1 -
 test/Makefile                     |   1 +
 test/log/Makefile                 |   7 +
 test/log/log_test.c               | 204 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/py/tests/test_log.py         | 106 +++++++++++++
 30 files changed, 1322 insertions(+), 480 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 common/log.c
 create mode 100644 common/log_console.c
 create mode 100644 doc/README.log
 create mode 100644 include/log.h
 delete mode 100644 include/logbuff.h
 create mode 100644 test/log/Makefile
 create mode 100644 test/log/log_test.c
 create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_log.py

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