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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:25:44 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] regmap: introduce value tracing for regmap bulk
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On 2022-08-18 16:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 02:49:20PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> 
>> I don't care much about regmap as a MMIO backend, but it strikes me as
>> odd that you end up with multiple ways of logging the same stuff (with
>> a memcpy in the middle of it).
> 
>> Why can't this be done with a small amount of trace post-processing?
> 
> At the minute we don't put the actual data for the bulk transfers into
> the trace so the information simply isn't there.

But isn't that what this patch should do?

We also have recently merged the CONFIG_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS which
already dumps all sort of MMIO crap^Winformation.

Surely there should be a more common approach to this.

         M.
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