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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
To: Ankit Gupta <ankgupta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: gavidov@codeaurora.org, sdharia@codeaurora.org,
	ivan.ivanov@linaro.org, svarbanov@mm-sol.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, collinsd@codeaurora.org,
	osvaldob@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mlocke@codeaurora.org, galak@codeaurora.org,
	agross@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spmi-pmic-arb: add irq tracepoints to the pmic-arb driver
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:06:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150527200629.GB24204@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4da368f6f34fc07eff97ddc3dfbced2c.squirrel@www.codeaurora.org>

On 05/27, Ankit Gupta wrote:
> >
> > How is this any better than irq tracepoints that we already have for
> > generic irqs?
> >
> It is better than generic irq tracepoints because it provides bus specific
> information (sid and address(pid) of slave write), driver specific
> information (apid (pmic-peripheral) and func_num) and statistics (apid
> range).
> Recall that *slave* read/write cannot be traced by the spmi framework ftrace.
> 

Don't we already get all this information based on how we map
interrupts to devices in DT? It feels to me that the same
argument here could be applied to all the random gpio expanders
and chained interrupt controllers that we support in the kernel.

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a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-26 23:39 [PATCH] spmi-pmic-arb: add irq tracepoints to the pmic-arb driver Ankit Gupta
2015-05-26 23:44 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-05-27 15:06   ` Ankit Gupta
2015-05-27 20:06     ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2015-05-28 23:02       ` Gilad Avidov
2015-05-29  1:15         ` Stephen Boyd
2015-05-29 19:56           ` Gilad Avidov
2015-05-26 23:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-05-27 15:09   ` Ankit Gupta

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