[PATCHv6 4/5] tracing: Add register read/write tracing support

Sai Prakash Ranjan quic_saipraka at quicinc.com
Sat Jan 15 05:18:00 PST 2022


On 1/8/2022 11:04 AM, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 1/7/2022 8:26 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 10:40:05 +0530
>> Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2022 11:48 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>> This should not be in the kernel/trace directory. It should be in the
>>> Hmm these are called from low level generic io header file
>>> (include/asm-generic/) where
>>> we wouldn't have any Kconfig to control this feature flexibly and as we
>>> can have this as
>>> a generic feature selectable by other architectures, wouldn't this be
>>> suited in kernel/trace?
>> Isn't there a place for generic rwmmio code?
>
> I am thinking of moving it to lib/ similar to an interface of 
> logic_iomem.c which
> Arnd had initially suggested to look at.
>
>>> I thought you were ok with the folder structure in the initial versions
>>> of the series?
>> Sorry, I missed the C file in kernel/trace. The files in kernel/trace 
>> tend
>> to be specific for the internals of tracing. This C file is more to hold
>> helper functions for mmio, which to me should be someplace for mmio 
>> code.
>> Perhaps in mm/ ?
>>
>
> Oh ok, mm would not be the right fit as it is memory management and 
> this is about
> memory mapped IO, let me try and move it to lib/ as done for 
> logic_iomem.c
>
> Thanks,
> Sai

Posted v7 - 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1642233364.git.quic_saipraka@quicinc.com/

Thanks,
Sai



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