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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst index 6c032db235a5..dc35da8b8792 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ and hexadecimal:: Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with:: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, bool *value); + void debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, bool *value); 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 @@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ 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 +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:: @@ -166,35 +166,40 @@ file:: }; struct debugfs_regset32 { - struct debugfs_reg32 *regs; + const struct debugfs_reg32 *regs; int nregs; void __iomem *base; + struct device *dev; /* Optional device for Runtime PM */ }; debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, struct debugfs_regset32 *regset); - void debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs, + void debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, const 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. -If you want to dump an u32 array in debugfs, you can create file with:: +If you want to dump a u32 array in debugfs, you can create a file with:: + + struct debugfs_u32_array { + u32 *array; + u32 n_elements; + }; void debugfs_create_u32_array(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, - u32 *array, u32 elements); + struct debugfs_u32_array *array); -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. +The "array" argument wraps a pointer to the array's data and the number +of its elements. Note: Once array is created its size can not be changed. -There is a helper function to create device related seq_file:: +There is a helper function to create a device-related seq_file:: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(struct device *dev, + void debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(struct device *dev, const char *name, struct dentry *parent, int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *s, |