Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPUFreq statistics retrieved by drivers

[Florian Fainelli]

On 7/31/2020 8:56 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Lukasz Luba wrote:
>>
>> In this case I think we would have to create debugfs.
>> Sudeep do you think these debugfs should be exposed from the protocol
>> layer:
>> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/perf.c
> 
> I prefer above over cpufreq as we can support for all the devices not
> just cpus which avoids adding similar support elsewhere(mostly devfreq)
> 
>> or maybe from the cpufreq scmi driver? I would probably be safer to have
>> it in the cpufreq driver because we have scmi_handle there.
>>
> 
> Cristian was thinking if we can consolidate all such debugfs under one
> device may be and that should eliminate your handle restriction. I would
> like to see how that works out in implementation but I don't have any 
> better suggestion ATM.

debugfs is not enabled in production kernels, and especially not with
Android kernels, so sticking those in sysfs like the existing cpufreq
subsystem statistics may be a better choice.
-- 
Florian