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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 742cc06e138f..f04066a37f4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ 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. -Finally, a block of arbitrary binary data can be exported with: +Another option is exporting a block of arbitrary binary data, with +this structure and function: struct debugfs_blob_wrapper { void *data; @@ -115,6 +116,35 @@ can be used to export binary information, but there does not appear to be any code which does so in the mainline. Note that all files created with debugfs_create_blob() are read-only. +If you want to dump a block of registers (something that happens quite +often during development, even if little such code reaches mainline. +Debugfs offers two functions: one to make a registers-only file, and +another to insert a register block in the middle of another sequential +file. + + struct debugfs_reg32 { + char *name; + unsigned long offset; + }; + + struct debugfs_regset32 { + struct debugfs_reg32 *regs; + int nregs; + void __iomem *base; + }; + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, + struct debugfs_regset32 *regset); + + int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs, + int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix); + +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. + + There are a couple of other directory-oriented helper functions: struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, |