Sven Eckelmann wrote:
Unfortunately I am not able to continue it today, but don't want to stop other people working on similar things. I will attach v0 (aka works for me, but maybe not perfect/good enough) versions of these patches to support them. Please feel free to discuss the patches.
I converted the remaining files from sysfs to debugfs, but I noticed that there is a problem with the output functions (see "BUG" comments in patch 3). The problem is that we may sleep during the prints in the output functions, but we disabled interrupts.... which is bad. This problem was also their before we converted from /proc to /sys. It seems that it was first introduced in r1517. The old way for hna_global_fill_buffer_text hna_local_fill_buffer_text solved it, but restricted the output to 4096 bytes. So we could either stay with a "slow" and maybe inconsistent output or restricted output length or copy the data to a local buffer and then creating the output without spinlock or something completely different.
The patches are for trunk, but I would provide backported versions when the patches are discussed and we could solve the problem in a sane way.
Best regards, Sven