X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FDMA-API.txt;h=25fb8bcf32a276f280d44aa53a4f2712a14257f4;hb=659a0e6633567246edcb7bd400c7e2bece9237d9;hp=d9aa43d78bcc9fc92e582a62cadb18cd9b27f4f0;hpb=0534c8cb5c8a8a954751fa01eef7831a475a9ec5;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index d9aa43d78bcc..25fb8bcf32a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -704,12 +704,24 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found: The current number of free dma_debug_entries 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 want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide '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 so. +If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can +specify the dma_debug_driver= 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 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