Re: [PATCH v4] PM / wakeup: show wakeup sources stats in sysfs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:48:27PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:44 PM Tri Vo <trong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Userspace can use wakeup_sources debugfs node to plot history of suspend
> > blocking wakeup sources over device's boot cycle. This information can
> > then be used (1) for power-specific bug reporting and (2) towards
> > attributing battery consumption to specific processes over a period of
> > time.
> >
> > However, debugfs doesn't have stable ABI. For this reason, create a
> > 'struct device' to expose wakeup sources statistics in sysfs under
> > /sys/class/wakeup/<name>/.
> >
> > Introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_STATS that enables/disables showing wakeup
> > source statistics in sysfs.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is really needed, but I'll let Greg decide.

You are right.  Having zillions of config options is a pain, who is
going to turn this off?

But we can always remove the option before 5.4-rc1, so I'll take this
as-is for now :)

> Apart from this
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

thanks for the review!  I'll wait for 5.3-rc1 to come out before adding
this to my tree.

greg k-h