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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt')
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1 files changed, 39 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 4f45f71149cb..dc497b96fa4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ This call, if successful, will make a directory called name underneath the indicated parent directory. If parent is NULL, the directory will be created in the debugfs root. On success, the return value is a struct dentry pointer which can be used to create files in the directory (and to -clean it up at the end). A NULL return value indicates that something went -wrong. If ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is returned, that is an indication that the -kernel has been built without debugfs support and none of the functions -described below will work. +clean it up at the end). An ERR_PTR(-ERROR) return value indicates that +something went wrong. If ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is returned, that is an +indication that the kernel has been built without debugfs support and none +of the functions described below will work. The most general way to create a file within a debugfs directory is with: @@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ should hold the file, data will be stored in the i_private field of the resulting inode structure, and fops is a set of file operations which implement the file's behavior. At a minimum, the read() and/or write() operations should be provided; others can be included as needed. Again, -the return value will be a dentry pointer to the created file, NULL for -error, or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if debugfs support is missing. +the return value will be a dentry pointer to the created file, +ERR_PTR(-ERROR) on error, or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if debugfs support is +missing. Create a file with an initial size, the following function can be used instead: @@ -67,41 +68,49 @@ actually necessary; the debugfs code provides a number of helper functions for simple situations. Files containing a single integer value can be created with any of: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); + void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); + void debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); + void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); These files support both reading and writing the given value; if a specific file should not be written to, simply set the mode bits accordingly. The values in these files are in decimal; if hexadecimal is more appropriate, the following functions can be used instead: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); + void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); + void debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); + void debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); + void debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the value to be exported. Some types can have different widths on different -architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat. There is a -function meant to help out in one special case: +architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat. There are +functions meant to help out in such special cases: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, - size_t *value); + void debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, size_t *value); As might be expected, this function will create a debugfs file to represent a variable of type size_t. +Similarly, there are helpers for variables of type unsigned long, in decimal +and hexadecimal: + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, + unsigned long *value); + void debugfs_create_xul(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, unsigned long *value); + Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with: struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, @@ -113,8 +122,8 @@ lower-case values, or 1 or 0. Any other input will be silently ignored. Also, atomic_t values can be placed in debugfs with: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_atomic_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, atomic_t *value) + void debugfs_create_atomic_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, atomic_t *value) A read of this file will get atomic_t values, and a write of this file will set atomic_t values. @@ -168,7 +177,7 @@ byte offsets over a base for the register block. If you want to dump an u32 array in debugfs, you can create file with: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32_array(const char *name, umode_t mode, + void debugfs_create_u32_array(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *array, u32 elements); @@ -214,7 +223,8 @@ can be removed with: void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry); -The dentry value can be NULL, in which case nothing will be removed. +The dentry value can be NULL or an error value, in which case nothing will +be removed. Once upon a time, debugfs users were required to remember the dentry pointer for every debugfs file they created so that all files could be |