linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thermal: trace: migrating thermal traces to use TRACE_DEFINE

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Date:	Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:58:52 +0000
From:	Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
To:	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:	Michele DiGiorgio <michele.digiorgio@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: trace: migrating thermal traces to use
 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macros

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:48:42AM +0000, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> Punit and Javi,
> 
> What do you think of this? I'd like to get your ACK before taking it.

Sorry, I didn't realize you were waiting for us.  I'm quite happy for
this to go in:

Acked-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>

> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-pm-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:linux-pm-
> > owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Michele DiGiorgio
> > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 1:11 AM
> > To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org; Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>; Javi
> > Merino <javi.merino@....com>; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Punit
> > Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>; Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: trace: migrating thermal traces to use
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macros
> > 
> > Hello Steven,
> > 
> > Thanks for acknowledging the patch.
> > 
> > Will you be merging it or should I refer to somebody else?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Michele
> > 
> > On 01/03/16 18:20, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Tue,  1 Mar 2016 17:38:54 +0000
> > > Michele Di Giorgio <michele.digiorgio@....com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Userspace tools are not aware of how to convert the enums provided
> > > > by the tracepoints to their corresponding strings.
> > > >
> > > > Adding TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macros allows to make the enums available
> > > > to userspace to let the tools know what those enum values represent.
> > > >
> > > > In particular, for thermal zone trip types what we obtained before
> > > > was something like:
> > > >
> > > > kworker/1:1-460   [001]   320.372732: thermal_zone_trip:
> > thermal_zone=soc
> > > >                 id=0 trip=1 trip_type=1
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, userspace tools do not know how to convert enum
> > > > values to strings and as a consequence they can only forward the
> > > > enum value to the output. By using TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macros for
> > > > thermal traces we get the following trace line:
> > > >
> > > > kworker/1:1-460   [001]   320.372732: thermal_zone_trip:
> > thermal_zone=soc
> > > >                 id=0 trip=1 trip_type=PASSIVE
> > > >
> > > > Userspace tools are now able to better understand the meaning of the
> > > > trip_type and provide the user with more readable information.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> > >
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