Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] driver core: Add device link related sysfs files

[Saravana Kannan]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:18 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With fw_devlink and with sync_state() callback features, there's a lot
> of device/device link related information that's not available in sysfs.
>
> Exposing these details to user space can be very useful in understanding
> suspend/resume issues, runtime pm issues, probing issues, figuring out
> the modules that'd be needed for first stage init, etc. In fact, an
> earlier verion of this series was very helpful in debugging and
> validating the recent memory leak fix[1].
>
> This series is based on driver-core-next and [1] cherry-picked on top of
> it.
>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200519063000.128819-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> v1->v2:
> Patch 1/4
> - New patch
> Patch 2/4
> - Fixed the warnings I saw before that were related to incorrect
>   sysfs removal code when a device link is deleted.
> - Fixed error handling in device_link_add()
> - Split up flags into more meaningful files.
> - Added status file.
> Patch 3/4
> - Fixed error handling that Greg pointed out before.
> Patch 4/4
> - New patch
>
> v2->v3:
> - Dropped patch 1/4 from v2 since it was already picked up. So numbering
>   has shifted.
> Patch 1/3
> - Added documentation
>
> Saravana Kannan (3):
>   driver core: Expose device link details in sysfs
>   driver core: Add state_synced sysfs file for devices that support it
>   driver core: Add waiting_for_supplier sysfs file for devices
>
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink | 126 ++++++++++
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-consumer        |   8 +
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-state_synced    |  24 ++
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-supplier        |   8 +
>  .../sysfs-devices-waiting_for_supplier        |  17 ++
>  drivers/base/core.c                           | 237 +++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/base/dd.c                             |  22 ++
>  include/linux/device.h                        |  58 ++---
>  8 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-consumer
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-state_synced
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-supplier
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-waiting_for_supplier

Friendly reminder.

-Saravana