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dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter

This patch adds the driver filter feature to the dma-debug
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Joerg Roedel 16 年之前
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@@ -704,12 +704,24 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
 				The current number of free dma_debug_entries
 				The current number of free dma_debug_entries
 				in the allocator.
 				in the allocator.
 
 
+	dma-api/driver-filter
+				You can write a name of a driver into this file
+				to limit the debug output to requests from that
+				particular driver. Write an empty string to
+				that file to disable the filter and see
+				all errors again.
+
 If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
 If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
 If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
 If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
 'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
 'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
 Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
 Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
 so.
 so.
 
 
+If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can
+specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the
+driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that
+driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
+
 When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number
 out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number
 of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you
 of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you