Re: [PATCH v4] PM / wakeup: show wakeup sources stats in sysfs

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-16T08:39:43Z

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:30:48AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:13 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:48:27PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:44 PM Tri Vo <trong@android.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Userspace can use wakeup_sources debugfs node to plot history of suspend
> > > > blocking wakeup sources over device's boot cycle. This information can
> > > > then be used (1) for power-specific bug reporting and (2) towards
> > > > attributing battery consumption to specific processes over a period of
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > However, debugfs doesn't have stable ABI. For this reason, create a
> > > > 'struct device' to expose wakeup sources statistics in sysfs under
> > > > /sys/class/wakeup/<name>/.
> > > >
> > > > Introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_STATS that enables/disables showing wakeup
> > > > source statistics in sysfs.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is really needed, but I'll let Greg decide.
> >
> > You are right. Having zillions of config options is a pain, who is
> > going to turn this off?
> >
> > But we can always remove the option before 5.4-rc1, so I'll take this
> > as-is for now :)
> >
> > > Apart from this
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > thanks for the review! I'll wait for 5.3-rc1 to come out before adding
> > this to my tree.
>
> So it occurred to me that maybe it's better if I apply it? After all,
> this is PM material. :-)

Heh, true, feel free to add:
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
to the patch then.

> It is fine by me either way, but then I'm not sure if you want to get
> future bug reports related to this if any ...

I get enough emails as it is, no need to ask for more :)

thanks,

greg k-h