[PATCH 09/10] soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add sysfs entry
misono.tomohiro at fujitsu.com
misono.tomohiro at fujitsu.com
Tue Jan 12 05:40:36 EST 2021
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:52 AM Misono Tomohiro
> <misono.tomohiro at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > This adds sysfs entry per CMG to show running barrier driver status
> > for debugging user application. The following entries will be created:
> >
> > /sys/class/misc/fujitsu_hwb
> > |- hwinfo ... number of CMG/BB/BW/pe_per_cmg on running system
> > |- CMG0
> > |- core_map ... cpuid belonging to this CMG
> > |- used_bb_bmap ... bitmap of currently allocated BB
> > |- used_bw_bmap ... bitmap of currently allocated BW
> > |- init_sync_bb0 ... current value of INIT_SYNC register 0
> > |- init_sync_bb1 ... current value of INIT_SYNC register 1
> > ...
> > |- CMG1
> > ...
>
> If this is meant as a stable interface, it should be documented in
> Documentation/ABI/
>
> However, if it's purely for debugging and may not get maintained
> forever, you might want to use debugfs instead.
>
As you guess this is only for debugging purpose, so I will try debugfs.
Thanks for review,
Tomohiro
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