Re: [PATCH v5,0/8] media: mediatek: vcodec: Add debugfs file for decode and encode

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 06:14:09 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:12 AM Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Need to change kernel driver to open decode and encode debug log at current period,
> it's very unreasonable. Adding debugfs common interface to support decode and encode,
> using echo command to control debug log level and getting useful information for each
> instance.
>
> patch 1 add dbgfs common interface.
> patch 2~5 support decode.
> patch 6~7 support encode
> patch 8 add help function

I find the interface kind of weird. A lot of debugfs usage in other places
just dumps out the current state. Here you are writing to it to ask it to
do a snapshot, and then you read it later. This ends up requiring manual
management of a buffer, instead of using seq_file, which is commonly used
for virtual files.

ChenYu

> ---
> changed with v4:
> - rebase to the top of media stage header.
>
> changed with v3:
> - add help function for patch 8
> - remove append '\0' and enlarge buffer size for patch 4
>
> changed with v2:
> - using pr_debug and dev_dbg instead of pr_info for patch 2.
> - fix word fail: informatiaoin -> information for patch 3.
> - used to print each instance format information for patch 5.
>
> changed with v1:
> - add new patch 4 and 5.
> - using cmd 'cat vdec' to show debug information instead of pr_info directly.
> ---
> Yunfei Dong (8):
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Add debugfs interface to get debug
> information
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Add debug params to control different log
> level
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Add a debugfs file to get different useful
> information
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Get each context resolution information
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Get each instance format type
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Change dbgfs interface to support encode
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Add encode to support dbgfs
> media: mediatek: vcodec: Add dbgfs help function
>
> .../media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/Makefile | 6 +
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_dbgfs.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_dbgfs.h | 72 ++++++
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_dec_drv.c | 4 +
> .../platform/mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_drv.h | 4 +
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_drv.c | 2 +
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_util.c | 8 +
> .../mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_util.h | 26 ++-
> 8 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_dbgfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/mtk_vcodec_dbgfs.h
>
> --
> 2.25.1
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