Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPUFreq statistics retrieved by drivers

Sudeep Holla
2020-08-05T17:20:00Z

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 10:19:23AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 7/31/2020 8:56 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> >>
> >> In this case I think we would have to create debugfs.
> >> Sudeep do you think these debugfs should be exposed from the protocol
> >> layer:
> >> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/perf.c
> >
> > I prefer above over cpufreq as we can support for all the devices not
> > just cpus which avoids adding similar support elsewhere(mostly devfreq)
> >
> >> or maybe from the cpufreq scmi driver? I would probably be safer to have
> >> it in the cpufreq driver because we have scmi_handle there.
> >>
> >
> > Cristian was thinking if we can consolidate all such debugfs under one
> > device may be and that should eliminate your handle restriction. I would
> > like to see how that works out in implementation but I don't have any
> > better suggestion ATM.
>
> debugfs is not enabled in production kernels, and especially not with
> Android kernels, so sticking those in sysfs like the existing cpufreq
> subsystem statistics may be a better choice.

Fair enough. I was suggesting that only if we can't push this into existing
sysfs support. If we can, then we need not worry about it. If not, I don't
want a user ABI just for SCMI for this firmware stats, I would rather keep
it in debugfs for debug purposes. This will be useless once we start seeing
AMU in the hardware and hence I was pushing for debugfs.

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Regards,
Sudeep