Re: [PATCH] clk: add debug message showing which unused clocks are disabled on boot

From: Brian Masney
Date: Thu Mar 30 2023 - 10:07:27 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Brian Masney (2022-11-17 02:58:29)
> > The clk framework on bootup will automatically disable all unused clocks
> > on bootup unless the clk_ignore_unused kernel parameter is present.
> > Let's add a basic debugging log statement here that shows which clocks
> > are disabled. There is already tracepoint present here as well, but
> > there's nothing like a simple, good ol' fashioned printk for simplicity.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> I'd like to see a documentation update instead that covers how to enable
> the tracepoint on the kernel commandline and have it print to the serial
> console.

Sure, I can do that. I see there's a section 'Disabling clock gating of
unused clocks' in Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst where I think this
would be appropriate.

Brian