Re: [PATCH] PM / wakeup: show wakeup sources stats in sysfs

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:48:58PM -0700, Tri Vo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:33 PM Tri Vo <trong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:12 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 05:54:49PM -0700, Tri Vo wrote:
> > > > Embedding a struct kobject into struct wakeup_source changes lifetime
> > > > requirements on the latter. To that end, change deallocation of struct
> > > > wakeup_source using kfree to kobject_put().
> > >
> > > Ick, are you sure you need a new kobject here?  Why wouldn't a named
> > > attribute group work instead?  That should keep this patch much smaller
> > > and simpler.
> >
> > Yeah, named attribute groups might be a much cleaner way to do this.
> > Let me investigate.
> 
> Say, we read /sys/power/wakeup_sources/foo/active_count.

What is "foo" here?  You didn't include Documentation of the sysfs
files so it was pretty impossible to say what exactly your heirachy was
going to be in order to determine this :)

> This
> attribute's show function needs to find wakeup_source struct of "foo".
> I'm not sure how to do that without embedding a kobject inside of
> wakeup_source.

Again, without knowing what "foo" is, I can't really answer this.
Surely "foo" is not a flat namespace of all 'struct device' in the
kernel, right?

thanks,

greg k-h