Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: qcom-geni: Add tracepoints for Qualcomm GENI serial driver
From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 09:48:32 EST
On 5/12/26 7:14 PM, Praveen Talari wrote:
> Add tracing to the Qualcomm GENI serial driver to improve runtime
> observability.
>
> Trace hooks are added at key points including termios and clock
> configuration, manual control get/set, interrupt handling, and data
> TX/RX paths.
>
> Usage examples:
>
> Enable all serial traces:
> echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/qcom_geni_serial/enable
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
>
> Example trace output:
>
> 2517.938432: geni_serial_clk_cfg: a94000.serial: desired_rate=1843200
> clk_rate=7372800 clk_div=4 clk_idx=0
> 2517.938753: geni_serial_irq: a94000.serial: m_irq=0x88800000
> s_irq=0x08000111 dma_tx=0x00000000 dma_rx=0x00000000
> 2517.938803: geni_serial_set_termios: a94000.serial: baud=115200 bpc=8
> tx_trans=0x00000002 tx_par=0x00000000 rx_trans=0x00000000
> rx_par=0x00000000 stop=0
> 2517.938807: geni_serial_set_mctrl: a94000.serial: mctrl=0x8006
> uart_manual_rfr=0x00000000
> 2517.938818: geni_serial_get_mctrl: a94000.serial: mctrl=0x0160
> geni_ios=0x00000001
> 2517.939165: geni_serial_irq: a94000.serial: m_irq=0x00400000
> s_irq=0x00000000 dma_tx=0x00000000 dma_rx=0x00000000
> 2517.939592: geni_serial_tx_data: a94000.serial: tx_len=8 data=61 62 63
> 64 65 66 67 68
> 2517.940610: geni_serial_irq: a94000.serial: m_irq=0x00000001
> s_irq=0x00000000 dma_tx=0x00000003 dma_rx=0x00000000
> 2517.942174: geni_serial_irq: a94000.serial: m_irq=0x08000000
> s_irq=0x08000100 dma_tx=0x00000000 dma_rx=0x00000003
> 2517.942323: geni_serial_rx_data: a94000.serial: rx_len=8 data=61 62 63
> 64 65 66 67 68
> 2517.942680: geni_serial_set_mctrl: a94000.serial: mctrl=0x8000
> uart_manual_rfr=0x80000002
I think the example (or at least the data that it produces) could go
under the --- line, there's plenty of docs regarding tracing on
docs.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Konrad