Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] drivers: irqchip: pdc: log PDC info in FTRACE

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Lina Iyer wrote:
> +++ b/include/trace/events/pdc.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> +/* Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
> + * only version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> + * GNU General Public License for more details.

Can you please use the proper SPDX identifiers instead of the boiler plate?
Same for the driver source file.

> + */
> +
> +#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
> +#define TRACE_SYSTEM pdc
> +
> +#if !defined(_TRACE_PDC_) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
> +#define _TRACE_PDC_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
> +
> +#define PDC_ENTRY		1
> +#define PDC_TYPE_CONFIG		2
> +
> +TRACE_EVENT(irq_pin_config,

This is really a too generic name for a PDC specific breakpoint.

Aside of that the question is whether this really justifies a trace
point. Wouldn't it be sufficient to use the GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS
infrastructure to make this accessible via debugfs?

Thanks,

	tglx