linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: report debugfs failure

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:56:39 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     rajneesh.bhardwaj@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@...el.com>,
        Souvik Kumar Chakravarty <souvik.k.chakravarty@...el.com>,
        matt.turner@...el.com, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: report debugfs failure

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 9:05 PM Rajneesh Bhardwaj
<rajneesh.bhardwaj@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On some Goldmont based systems such as ASRock J3455M the BIOS may not
> enable the IPC1 device that provides access to the PMC and PUNIT. In
> such scenarios, the ioss and pss resources from the platform device can

IOSS
PSS

> not be obtained and result in a invalid telemetry_plt_config.

What is telemetry_plt_config?

> This is also applicable to the platforms where the BIOS supports IPC1
> device under debug configurations but IPC1 is disabled by user or the
> policy.
>
> This change allows user to know the reason for not seeing entries under
> /sys/kernel/debug/telemetry/* when there is no apparent failure at boot.
>
> Cc: Matt Turner <matt.turner@...el.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> Cc: Souvik Kumar Chakravarty <souvik.k.chakravarty@...el.com>
> Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...el.com>
>

> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198779
>
There should be not a blank line.

> Acked-by: Matt Turner <matt.turner@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@...ux.intel.com>

> +exit:
> +       pr_debug(pr_fmt(DRIVER_NAME) " Failed\n");

Completely useless.

Device core does it in generic way.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko