[PATCH 6/6] arm: omap: pm-debug: enhanced usecount debug support

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Feb 14 18:52:18 EST 2012


* Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> [120214 14:28]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> writes:
> 
> > * Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [120214 08:19]:
> >> Voltdm, pwrdm, clkdm, hwmod and clk usecounts are now separeted to
> >> their own file, 'usecount'. This file shows the usecounts for every
> >> active domain and their children recursively. 'count' file now only
> >> shows power state counts for powerdomains.
> >> 
> >> This patch also provices a way to do printk dumps from kernel code,
> >> by calling the pm_dbg_dump_X functions. The plan is to call these
> >> functions once an error condition is detected, e.g. failed suspend.
> >
> > Why don't you replace this all with a userspace tool that deciphers
> > the registers for you?
> 
> This patch isn't deciphering registers, it's just dumping usecounts, and
> I think that is extremely useful to have in debugfs.
> 
> I've already removed all the register dumping from the kernel in the
> hopes that someone will write a userspace tool for that.

OK good to hear you're already considering it.

Tony



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