Re: [PATCH] clk: Add tracepoints for hardware operations

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jun 30 2014 - 21:12:03 EST


On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:07:49 -0700
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> >> if (clk->ops->enable) {
> >> ret = clk->ops->enable(clk->hw);
> >> if (ret) {
> >> @@ -945,6 +965,7 @@ static int __clk_enable(struct clk *clk)
> >> return ret;
> > It may make even more sense to add the tracepoints within the if
> > statement. Especially if you have a return on error.
> >
> >
>
> Right. I was thinking that no "clk*_complete" event would mean there was
> some error. Detecting that case is not so easy though. It may be better
> to always have the completion event so we know how long hardware
> operations take and so that error handling is simpler.
>

You could also have the event record the ret as well.

-- Steve
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