Re: [PATCH v7] PM: sleep: Expose last succeeded resumed timestamp in sysfs

[Brian Norris]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:08 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 1:07 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernelorg> wrote:
> >
> > Gently ping,
> >
> > I would like to know this is enough or I should add more info/update.
>
> I still am not sure what this is going to be useful for.
>
> Do you have a specific example?

Since there seems to be some communication gap here, I'll give it a try.

First, I'll paste the key phrase of its use case from the cover letter:

  "we would like to know how long the resume processes are taken in kernel
  and in user-space"

This is a "system measurement" question, for use in tests (e.g., in a
test lab for CI or for pre-release testing, where we suspend
Chromebooks, wake them back up, and measure how long the wakeup took)
or for user-reported metrics (e.g., similar statistics from real
users' systems, if they've agreed to automatically report usage
statistics, back to Google). We'd like to know how long it takes for a
system to wake up, so we can detect when there are problems that lead
to a slow system-resume experience. The user experience includes both
time spent in the kernel and time spent after user space has thawed
(and is spending time in potentially complex power and display manager
stacks) before a Chromebook's display lights back up.

If I understand the whole of Masami's work correctly, I believe we're
taking "timestamps parsed out of dmesg" (or potentially out of ftrace,
trace events, etc.) to measure the kernel side, plus "timestamp
provided here in CLOCK_MONOTONIC" and "timestamp determined in our
power/display managers" to measure user space.

Does that make sense? Or are we still missing something "specific" for
you? I could give code pointers [1], as it's all open source. But I'm
not sure browsing our metric-collection code would help understanding
any more than these explanations.

(TBH, this all still seems kinda odd to me, since parsing dmesg isn't
a great way to get machine-readable information. But this at least
serves to close some gaps in measurement.)

Brian

[1] e.g., https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch/+/main:src/platform2/power_manager/powerd/metrics_collector.cc;l=294;drc=ce8075df179c4f8b2f4e4c4df6978d3df665c4d1