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SubjectRe: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Introduce debugfs interface to smem
On 24-11-20, 10:39, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 24 Nov 09:34 CST 2020, Vinod Koul wrote:
>
> > On 22-11-20, 23:21, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > Every now and then it's convenient to be able to inspect the content of
> > > SMEM items. Rather than carrying some hack locally let's upstream a
> > > driver that when inserted exposes a debugfs interface for dumping
> > > available items.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig | 7 +++
> > > drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile | 1 +
> > > drivers/soc/qcom/smem_debugfs.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 3 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/smem_debugfs.c
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> > > index 3dc3e3d61ea3..7e1dd6b3f33a 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> > > @@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ config QCOM_SMEM
> > > The driver provides an interface to items in a heap shared among all
> > > processors in a Qualcomm platform.
> > >
> > > +config QCOM_SMEM_DEBUGFS
> > > + tristate "Qualcomm Shared Memory Manager (SMEM) DebugFS interface"
> > > + depends on QCOM_SMEM
> > > + depends on DEBUG_FS
> > > + help
> > > + Provides a debugfs interface for inspecting SMEM.
> >
> > Do we need additional debugfs entry, maybe better to depend on DEBUG_FS
> > being enabled and this file part of QCOM_SMEM?
> >
>
> We don't need this in any form of production system, so rather than
> tainting qcom_smem.c I put it in a separate driver that isn't even
> automatically loaded.

Debugfs in production :D

I would leave it to you to decide.. lazy me needs to select another
option!

> > > +static int smem_debugfs_rescan(struct seq_file *seq, void *p)
> > > +{
> > > + struct dentry *root = seq->private;
> > > + unsigned long item;
> > > + unsigned long host;
> > > + unsigned long data;
> > > + char name[10];
> > > + char *ptr;
> > > +
> > > + for (host = 0; host < 10; host++) {
> > > + for (item = 0; item < 512; item++) {
> > > + ptr = qcom_smem_get(host, item, NULL);
> > > + if (IS_ERR(ptr))
> > > + continue;
> > > +
> > > + sprintf(name, "%ld-%ld", host, item);
> > > +
> > > + data = host << 16 | item;
> > > + debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, root,
> > > + (void *)data, &smem_debugfs_item_ops);
> >
> > So IIUC user invokes scan file which creates additional files, right?
> > Additional invoke will do that as well..?
> >
>
> Yes, so if you run it a second time debugfs_create_file() will fail for
> any items that was present during the last invocation.
>
> I did consider adding some logic to keep track of what items we have
> already registered, but it is just debugging code and given that after a
> few second of operations the set of items has stabilized you typically
> don't run this repeatedly.
>
> So I don't think it's worth the memory occupied by an idr or 5000+ bits
> in a map.

Okay sounds good to me

--
~Vinod

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