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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/debugfs.h | 21 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 36dac49e859f..dc497b96fa4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -102,11 +102,14 @@ functions meant to help out in such special cases: As might be expected, this function will create a debugfs file to represent a variable of type size_t. -Similarly, there is a helper for variables of type unsigned long: +Similarly, there are helpers for variables of type unsigned long, in decimal +and hexadecimal: struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, unsigned long *value); + void debugfs_create_xul(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, unsigned long *value); Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with: diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h index 19231e618c16..0e8f2e0cb91f 100644 --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h @@ -351,4 +351,25 @@ static inline ssize_t debugfs_write_file_bool(struct file *file, #endif +/** + * debugfs_create_xul - create a debugfs file that is used to read and write an + * unsigned long value, formatted in hexadecimal + * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create. + * @mode: the permission that the file should have + * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry for this file. This should be a + * directory dentry if set. If this parameter is %NULL, then the + * file will be created in the root of the debugfs filesystem. + * @value: a pointer to the variable that the file should read to and write + * from. + */ +static inline void debugfs_create_xul(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, + unsigned long *value) +{ + if (sizeof(*value) == sizeof(u32)) + debugfs_create_x32(name, mode, parent, (u32 *)value); + else + debugfs_create_x64(name, mode, parent, (u64 *)value); +} + #endif |