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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-08-31 15:40:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-08-31 15:40:05 -0700 |
commit | e2701603f72cd38e99c6b1da13c8e99bc27b2f34 (patch) | |
tree | af55a86e0fbc26d4b19d1a2eabb41db26e7687ef /Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | |
parent | 22629b6d9072c4e86e900306d7020ad722ae6536 (diff) | |
parent | ce14c5831364118324b10c0355dead062b9ddd40 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's been a fair amount going on in the docs tree this time around,
including:
- Support for reproducible document builds, from Ben Hutchings and
company.
- The ability to automatically generate cross-reference links within
a single DocBook book and embedded descriptions for large
structures. From Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula.
- A new document on how to add a system call from David Drysdale.
- Chameleon bus documentation from Johannes Thumshirn.
...plus the usual collection of improvements, typo fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (39 commits)
Documentation, add kernel-parameters.txt entry for dis_ucode_ldr
Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZE
Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt: Modify definition of DRHD
docs: update HOWTO for 3.x -> 4.x versioning
kernel-doc: ignore unneeded attribute information
scripts/kernel-doc: Adding cross-reference links to html documentation.
DocBook: Fix non-determinstic installation of duplicate man pages
Documentation: minor typo fix in mailbox.txt
Documentation: describe how to add a system call
doc: Add more workqueue functions to the documentation
ARM: keystone: add documentation for SoCs and EVMs
scripts/kernel-doc Allow struct arguments documentation in struct body
SubmittingPatches: remove stray quote character
Revert "DocBook: Avoid building man pages repeatedly and inconsistently"
Documentation: Minor changes to men-chameleon-bus.txt
Doc: fix trivial typo in SubmittingPatches
MAINTAINERS: Direct Documentation/DocBook/media properly
Documentation: installed man pages don't need to be executable
fix Evolution submenu name in email-clients.txt
Documentation: Add MCB documentation
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 88ab81c..463f595 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ 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. +Create a file with an initial size, the following function can be used +instead: + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_file_size(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, void *data, + const struct file_operations *fops, + loff_t file_size); + +file_size is the initial file size. The other parameters are the same +as the function debugfs_create_file. + In a number of cases, the creation of a set of file operations is not actually necessary; the debugfs code provides a number of helper functions for simple situations. Files containing a single integer value can be @@ -100,6 +111,14 @@ A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or 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) + +A read of this file will get atomic_t values, and a write of this file +will set atomic_t values. + Another option is exporting a block of arbitrary binary data, with this structure and function: @@ -147,6 +166,27 @@ The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array using __stringify, and a number of register names (macros) are actually 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, + struct dentry *parent, + u32 *array, u32 elements); + +The "array" argument provides data, and the "elements" argument is +the number of elements in the array. Note: Once array is created its +size can not be changed. + +There is a helper function to create device related seq_file: + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(struct device *dev, + const char *name, + struct dentry *parent, + int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *s, + void *data)); + +The "dev" argument is the device related to this debugfs file, and +the "read_fn" is a function pointer which to be called to print the +seq_file content. There are a couple of other directory-oriented helper functions: |