linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: coresight: correct usage for '/dev/cpu_dma

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:08:10 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: coresight: correct usage for '/dev/cpu_dma_latency'

Hi Sudeep,

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:17:06AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> 
> On 23/08/17 08:23, Leo Yan wrote:
> > In the coresight CPU debug document it suggests to use 'echo' command
> > to set latency request to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so can disable all CPU
> > idle states, but in fact this doesn't work.
> > 
> > This is because when the command 'echo' exits, it releases the device
> > node's file descriptor and the kernel release function removes the QoS
> > constraint; finally when the command 'echo' finished there have no
> > constraint imposed on cpu_dma_latency.
> > 
> > This patch changes to use 'exec' to access '/dev/cpu_dma_latency', the
> > command 'exec' can avoid the file descriptor to be closed so we can
> > keep the constraint on cpu_dma_latency.
> > 
> > This patch also corrects the description when set latency = 0uS, in
> > this case the idle state0 still can be selected by CPUIdle governor so
> > this means on ARM platform the 'WFI' state is still enabled, but all
> > other deeper states have been disabled so CPUs will not be powered off.
> > 
> 
> 
> IMO, we should just refer to cpuidle and PM QoS documents from here so
> that any updates or changes in those documents are observed. Having a
> copy of the text may result in it getting obsolete.

Agree, we should point to below docs:
Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt, section 'From user mode';
Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt;

Thanks for good suggestion.

> -- 
> Regards,
> Sudeep