linux-kernel - RE: [linux-pm] [PATCH v4] PM: add statistics debugfs file for suspend to ram

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Message-ID: <EB6073F1DF78F9439DFDCC701BC6466007B36A0D12@bgsmsx502.gar.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:22:56 +0530
From:	"Mansoor, Illyas" <illyas.mansoor@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	"Liu, ShuoX" <shuox.liu@...el.com>,
	"linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
	"Yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com" <Yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [linux-pm] [PATCH v4] PM: add statistics debugfs file for
 suspend	to ram

static pm_message_t pm_transition;
> > >
> > > @@ -464,8 +465,12 @@ void dpm_resume_noirq(pm_message_t state)
> > >  		mutex_unlock(&dpm_list_mtx);
> > >
> > >  		error = device_resume_noirq(dev, state);
> > > -		if (error)
> > > +		if (error) {
> > > +			suspend_stats.failed_resume_noirq++;
> > > +			dpm_save_failed_step(SUSPEND_RESUME_NOIRQ);
> > > +			dpm_save_failed_dev(dev_name(dev));
> >
> > Please make these statistics conditionally enabled, so on a production system
> > If we need to disable these statistics code we should be able to do so.
> 
> Why, are they taking time or space that is needed for something else?
> What's the downside here of just not always having this enabled?

Why have something that is not required/Used?
Its only useful if DEBUGFS is configured anyways

-Illyas
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