From 472e89b4e1a87cd7f9b5ae99759a635711cf00fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Changbin Du Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:53:00 +0800 Subject: Documentation: ACPI: move aml-debugger.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/aml-debugger.rst | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/aml-debugger.rst (limited to 'Documentation/firmware-guide') diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/aml-debugger.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/aml-debugger.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a889d43bc6c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/aml-debugger.rst @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: + +================ +The AML Debugger +================ + +:Copyright: |copy| 2016, Intel Corporation +:Author: Lv Zheng + + +This document describes the usage of the AML debugger embedded in the Linux +kernel. + +1. Build the debugger +===================== + +The following kernel configuration items are required to enable the AML +debugger interface from the Linux kernel:: + + CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER=y + CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER_USER=m + +The userspace utilities can be built from the kernel source tree using +the following commands:: + + $ cd tools + $ make acpi + +The resultant userspace tool binary is then located at:: + + tools/power/acpi/acpidbg + +It can be installed to system directories by running "make install" (as a +sufficiently privileged user). + +2. Start the userspace debugger interface +========================================= + +After booting the kernel with the debugger built-in, the debugger can be +started by using the following commands:: + + # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug + # modprobe acpi_dbg + # tools/power/acpi/acpidbg + +That spawns the interactive AML debugger environment where you can execute +debugger commands. + +The commands are documented in the "ACPICA Overview and Programmer Reference" +that can be downloaded from + +https://acpica.org/documentation + +The detailed debugger commands reference is located in Chapter 12 "ACPICA +Debugger Reference". The "help" command can be used for a quick reference. + +3. Stop the userspace debugger interface +======================================== + +The interactive debugger interface can be closed by pressing Ctrl+C or using +the "quit" or "exit" commands. When finished, unload the module with:: + + # rmmod acpi_dbg + +The module unloading may fail if there is an acpidbg instance running. + +4. Run the debugger in a script +=============================== + +It may be useful to run the AML debugger in a test script. "acpidbg" supports +this in a special "batch" mode. For example, the following command outputs +the entire ACPI namespace:: + + # acpidbg -b "namespace" diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst index 287a7cbd82ac..e9f253d54897 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ACPI Support method-tracing DSD-properties-rules debug + aml-debugger gpio-properties i2c-muxes acpi-lid -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b