Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933308Ab3FRUBU (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:01:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f180.google.com ([209.85.214.180]:37199 "EHLO mail-ob0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932861Ab3FRUBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:01:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130613172408.GA5561@intel.com> <20130618173406.GB5054@intel.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:01:19 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmatest: masking tests for channel capabilities From: Andy Shevchenko To: Dan Williams Cc: Jubin Mehta , Vinod Koul , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andy Shevchenko , Dave Jiang , Jon Mason Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 32 On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jubin Mehta wrote: >> Would you like to have some changes regarding the configuration >> process for the module parameters of the dmatest? > > Yes, as a first step I would like to see a clean up of the the > configuration parameters to be available via > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters rather than /sys/kernel/debug/dmatest Do you mean to enable write access to them? > As for "run" and "results" I see Andy's point that those are a bit > awkward as parameters. However, we do have trace points as a more > general mechanism for dumping events and data to userspace. If we had > /sys/module/dmatest/parameters/run with a tracepoint for the result > line does that get us everything we need for automation? I can see > more tracepoints beng added to get some perf metrics out of the tests. I'm not familiar neither with perf, nor with tracepoints. Could you elaborate and show here the scheme how it should work? How we will get results? In what form? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/