Yanbo Li <yan...@qti.qualcomm.com> writes:

> The debugfs interface reg_addr&reg_val used to read and write the target
> register.
> The interface mmem_val used to dump the targer memory and also can be
> used to assign value to target memory
>
> The basic usage explain as below:
>
> Register read/write:
> reg_addr       (the register address)                    (read&write)
> reg_value      (the register value,  output is ASCII)    (read&write)
>
> Read operation:
> 1. Write the reg address to reg_addr
>    IE:  echo 0x100000 > reg_addr
> 2. Read the value from reg_value
>    IE:  cat reg_value
> Write operation:
> 1. Write the reg address to reg_addr IE:  echo 0x100000 > reg_addr
> 2. Write the value to the reg_value  IE:  echo  0x2400 > reg_value
>
> Target memory dump:
> mem_value (the target memory, access with the length and start address
>                                                       (read&write)
> Read operation:
>
> 1: Read 4K(bs*count)) from address 0x400000(bs*skip)
> dd if=mem_value bs=4 count=1024 skip=1048576 | xxd -g1
>
> 2: Read 0x50000(bs*count) from address 0x400000(bs*skip)
> dd if=mem_value bs=4 count=81920 skip=1048576 | xxd -g1
>
> Write operation:
>
> 1: Write the 0x01020304 to address 0x400400(bs*seek)
> echo 0x01020304 | xxd -r | dd of=mem_value bs=4 seek=1048832
>
> 2: Read the memory and then write back after edit
> dd if=mem_value bs=4 count=1024 skip=1048576 > tmp.bin
> edit the tmp.bin
> dd if=tmp.bin of=mem_value bs=4 count=4 seek=1048576
>
> It suggests assign the 4 align number to bs, IE, 4, 8, 16 ....
> Cause the target memory width is 32bit
>
> Signed-off-by: Yanbo Li <yan...@qti.qualcomm.com>

The commit log is quite hard to read due to formatting, but I can clean
that up.

> +     spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
> +     reg_addr = ar->debug.reg_addr;
> +     spin_unlock_bh(&ar->data_lock);

[...]

> +     spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
> +     ar->debug.reg_addr = reg_addr;
> +     spin_unlock_bh(&ar->data_lock);

[...]

> +     spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
> +     reg_addr = ar->debug.reg_addr;
> +     spin_unlock_bh(&ar->data_lock);

[...]

> +     spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
> +     reg_addr = ar->debug.reg_addr;
> +     spin_unlock_bh(&ar->data_lock);

I admit that I'm far from a locking expert, but does that make any
difference in the functionality?

-- 
Kalle Valo
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