[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add a debug log to track DAPM widget power up/down
From: Banajit Goswami bgoswami@codeaurora.org
Add a debug log to help track widgets being powered-up and powered-down by DAPM.
Signed-off-by: Banajit Goswami bgoswami@codeaurora.org --- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c index 29cdfbf4c888..9bab90410de5 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c @@ -1665,6 +1665,13 @@ static void dapm_seq_run(struct snd_soc_card *card, break; }
+ /* + * Add this debug log to keep track of widgets being + * powered-up and powered-down. + */ + dev_dbg(w->dapm->dev, "dapm: powering %s widget %s\n", + power_up ? "up" : "down", w->name); + if (ret < 0) dev_err(w->dapm->dev, "ASoC: Failed to apply widget power: %d\n", ret);
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:54:27AM -0700, bgoswami@codeaurora.org wrote:
From: Banajit Goswami bgoswami@codeaurora.org
Add a debug log to help track widgets being powered-up and powered-down by DAPM.
We already have huge amounts of trace available via tracepoints and having something on by default in the debug logs seems like it's going to get very verbose for people who aren't specifically working on audio. What's the advantage of adding dev_dbg() logs as well?
Thanks Mark for the review!
On 5/24/2019 4:29 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:54:27AM -0700, bgoswami@codeaurora.org wrote:
From: Banajit Goswami bgoswami@codeaurora.org
Add a debug log to help track widgets being powered-up and powered-down by DAPM.
We already have huge amounts of trace available via tracepoints and having something on by default in the debug logs seems like it's going to get very verbose for people who aren't specifically working on audio. What's the advantage of adding dev_dbg() logs as well?
Having this debug statement helps collecting logs about DAPM widget power
Up/Down sequence, which helps significantly during debugging. The advantage of
having the dev_dbg here are-
1. Do not need to enable trace, which helps collecting logs, without much know-how
about audio or kernel
2. Dynamic debug (using /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug) can be enabled for
either just this line of code, or, for the function containing this debug statement.
This way, logs can be collected just for the DAPM widget enable/disable, and thereby
avoid having the output logs filled with unwanted logs.
3. Though I agree with you about the additional DAPM debug logs being present for
someone who may not be specifically working on Audio, based on the number of
widgets in the audio path used, the number of prints should be limited to only widget
power on/off.
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 06:15:20PM -0700, Banajit Goswami wrote:
having the dev_dbg here are-
- Do not need to enable trace, which helps collecting logs, without much
know-how
about audio or kernel
That approach results in kernel logs that are really hard to use and wrap round far too fast - if everything starts spamming the logs it does nothing for readability.
- Dynamic debug (using /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug) can be enabled for
either just this line of code, or, for the function containing this debug statement.
This way, logs can be collected just for the DAPM widget enable/disable, and thereby
avoid having the output logs filled with unwanted logs.
That's into needing to learn about the kernel at which point there's no real advantage of this approach.
- Though I agree with you about the additional DAPM debug logs being
present for
someone who may not be specifically working on Audio, based on the number of
widgets in the audio path used, the number of prints should be limited to only widget
power on/off.
Some devices are *much* bigger than others, and some systems will start and stop audio much more frequently than others (things like noises for taps for example) both of which will massively amplify the noise. Even when actively working on audio with those systems logging everything gets old really fast.
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Mark Brown