From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
"ath10k@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/8] ath10k: provide firmware crash info via debugfs
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:13:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F49EFC.5000008@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQ=ocpY2BDCGhMB7E9s4ykp18uXHMTc7rOn0qb7mDyZ5qw@mail.gmail.com>
>>> Hmm should this really be sizeof()? Not next_idx (which effectively
>>> defines number of bytes of the dbglog)?
>>
>>
>> I haven't tried decoding this yet, but we may need to know the next_idx
>> to decode this properly.
>
> So basically a (length, payload) encoding would be necessary here
> instead of a single stream, right?
As long as you know the starting point for a message, you can decode the
rest of the message(s) as a stream of 32 bit ints. The current code that
I wrote is a circular buffer, so after first wrap, we lose an idea of where
to start reading.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 8:22 [PATCH v7 0/8] ath10k: firmware crash dump Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 8:22 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] ath10k: add ath10k_pci_diag_* helpers Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 8:22 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] ath10k: provide firmware crash info via debugfs Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 9:33 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 15:25 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-19 16:05 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-20 7:36 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-20 6:28 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-20 6:48 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-20 6:56 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-20 13:13 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-08-20 7:29 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-20 13:08 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-20 14:19 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-20 14:52 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] ath10k: save firmware debug log messages Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 9:39 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 9:44 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 15:16 ` Ben Greear
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] ath10k: save firmware stack upon firmware crash Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 9:37 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] ath10k: dump exception stack contents on " Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 9:38 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] ath10k: save firmware RAM and ROM BSS sections on crash Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 9:39 ` Michal Kazior
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] ath10k: rename ath10k_pci_hif_dump_area() to ath10k_pci_fw_crashed_dump() Kalle Valo
2014-08-19 8:23 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] ath10k: print more driver info when firmware crashes Kalle Valo
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