Re: [PATCH V9] powercap/drivers/idle_injection: Add an idle injection framework

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 07:48:31 EST


On 25/06/2018 10:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> One more thing.
>
>> +/**
>> + * idle_injection_register - idle injection init routine
>> + * @cpumask: the list of CPUs managed by the idle injection device
>> + *
>> + * This is the initialization function in charge of creating the
>> + * initializing of the timer and allocate the structures. It does not
>> + * starts the idle injection cycles.
>> + *
>> + * Return: NULL if an allocation fails.
>> + */
>> +struct idle_injection_device *idle_injection_register(struct cpumask *cpumask)
>> +{
>> + struct idle_injection_device *ii_dev;
>> + int cpu, cpu_rb;
>> +
>> + ii_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ii_dev) + cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + if (!ii_dev)
>> + return NULL;
>> +
>> + cpumask_copy(to_cpumask(ii_dev->cpumask), cpumask);
>> + hrtimer_init(&ii_dev->timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
>> + ii_dev->timer.function = idle_injection_wakeup_fn;
>> +
>> + for_each_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(ii_dev->cpumask)) {
>> +
>> + if (per_cpu(idle_injection_device, cpu)) {
>> + pr_err("cpu%d is already registered\n", cpu);
>
> If you print something like this, it should be clear what it is about
> and what piece of code it comes from as there will be no context
> around it it the log.

Is the prefix as pointed by Viresh enough ? Or do want me to add a trace
like:

pr_err("Failed to register 'cpu%d', it is already registered", cpu);
(where "ii_dev:" gives the context)

?


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