[PATCH] ath10k: add configurable debugging.

[Kalle Valo]

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel at broadcom.com> writes:

> On 31-05-17 14:16, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> writes:
>> 
>>> This adds a few configurable debugging options:
>>>
>>> * driver debugging and tracing is now configurable per device
>>> * driver debugging and tracing is now configurable at runtime
>>> * the debugging / tracing is not run at all (besides a mask check)
>>>   unless the specific debugging bitmap field is configured.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Chadd <adrian at FreeBSD.org>
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
>>> @@ -2444,6 +2444,8 @@ struct ath10k *ath10k_core_create(size_t
>>> priv_size, struct device *dev,
>>>  	ar->hw_rev = hw_rev;
>>>  	ar->hif.ops = hif_ops;
>>>  	ar->hif.bus = bus;
>>> +	ar->debug_mask = ath10k_debug_mask;
>>> +	ar->trace_debug_mask = ath10k_debug_mask;
>> 
>> Until now tracing has been always enabled, irrespective what debug_mask
>> has contained. Now you are changing that and by default log messages are
>> not delivered through tracing until user enables them. So I think to
>> keep the old behaviour trace_debug_mask should be ATH10K_DBG_ANY
>> (0xffffffff) by default and the user can modify the mask per device via
>> the debugfs file.
>> 
>> But is it really needed to be able to filter trace messages? debug_mask
>> I understand, but not sure about trace_debug_mask.
>
> FWIW, in brcmfmac I decided not to filter trace messages. The overhead
> is relatively small and if needed you can pass filter expressions with
> trace-cmd record.

I also think that this is how it should work. For example, if you have
tracing enabled in wpasupplicant/hostapd with the command below you can
get a lot of information in one file with relatively little overhead:

trace-cmd record -e mac80211 -e cfg80211 -e ath10k

But if user is forced to use debugfs to enable ath10k tracing that is
quite a step backwards.

-- 
Kalle Valo