Re: [PATCH v1] PM / Domains: Add tracepoints

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:42:35 -0700
Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 01:03:43PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:35:42 -0700
> > Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > How about this instead:
> > > 
> > >   Add tracepoints for genpd_power_on, genpd_power_off and
> > >   genpd_set_performance_state. The tracepoints can help with
> > >   understanding power domain behavior of a given device, which
> > >   may be particularly interesting for battery powered devices
> > >   and suspend/resume.  
> > 
> > Do you have a use case example to present?  
> 
> TBH I'm not looking into a specific use case right now. While
> peeking around in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events to learn more
> about existing tracepoints that might be relevant for my work
> I noticed the absence of genpd ones and it seemed a good idea to
> add them preemptively. Conceptually they seem similar to the
> existing regulator_enable/disable and cpu_idle tracepoints.
> 
> As an abstract use case I could see power analysis on battery
> powered devices during suspend. genpd_power_on/off allow to see
> which power domains remain on during suspend, and might give
> insights for possible power saving options. Examples could be that
> a power domain stays unexpectedly on due to a misconfiguration, or
> two power domains remain on when it could be only one if you just
> moved that one pin/port over to the other domain in the next
> hardware revision.

If the power management maintainers have no issues with adding these,
then neither do I ;-)  It would be them who would pull them in anyway.

-- Steve