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SubjectRE: [PATCH] ath10k: Add history for tracking certain events
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 8:58 PM
> To: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org>; ath10k@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Add history for tracking certain events
>
>
>
> On 06/26/2020 11:22 PM, Rakesh Pillai wrote:
> > For debugging many issues, a history of the
> > below mentioned events can help get an idea
> > of what exactly was going on just before any
> > issue occurred in the system. These event
> > history will be collected only when the host
> > driver is run in debug mode (i.e. with the
> > config ATH10K_DEBUG enabled).
>
> This should be disabled by default unless user specifically pokes some
> debugfs
> value to turn it on so that it does not impact performance.

Hi Ben,
This history is enabled only if the user compiles the kernel with
ATH10K_DEBUG.
Making it runtime, adds a lot of "if" conditions for this history record.
Do you suggest to add support to enable/disable it runtime even in
ATH10K_DEBUG ?

>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> >
> > Add history for tracking the below events
> > - register read
> > - register write
> > - IRQ trigger
> > - IRQ Enable
> > - IRQ Disable
> > - NAPI poll
> > - CE service
> > - WMI cmd
> > - WMI event
> > - WMI tx completion
> >
> > This will help in debugging any crash or any
> > improper behaviour.
>
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com

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