Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] pm: Add runtime PM statistics to sysfs

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: pm: Add runtime PM statistics to sysfs
> > > 
> > > In order for PowerTOP to be able to report how well the new
> > > runtime PM is working for the various drivers, the kernel needs
> > > to export some basic statistics in sysfs.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds two sysfs files in the runtime PM domain that
> > > expose the total time a device has been active, and the time a
> > > device has been suspended.
> > > 
> > > With this PowerTOP can compute the activity percentage
> > > 
> > > Active %age = 100 * (delta active) / (delta active + delta
> > > suspended)
> > > 
> > > and present the information to the user.
> > > 
> > > I've written the PowerTOP code (slated for version 1.12) already,
> > > and the output looks like this:
> > > 
> > > Runtime Device Power Management statistics
> > > Active  Device name
> > >  10.0%	06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
> > > Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E
> > 
> > 
> > > @@ -411,6 +433,7 @@ int __pm_runtime_resume(struct device *dev,
> > > bool from_wq) }
> > >  
> > >  	if (retval) {
> > > +		update_pm_runtime_accounting(dev);
> > >  		dev->power.runtime_status = RPM_SUSPENDED;
> > >  		pm_runtime_cancel_pending(dev);
> > >  	} else {
> > 
> > This line was added in the wrong place.  It belongs either before
> > the "if (retval) {" or after the "} else {".
> 
> Whoops, sorry, my mistake.  It doesn't belong here at all.  It
> belongs considerably earlier in the function, before the line:

you are correct.

I'll fix it, I think I'll make a small helper that does the account and
assignment in one place, so that we then can have a rule that nobody
updates this field without calling the function


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