Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
[PATCH] IPoIB: document conversion to debugfs
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Update IPoIB documentation now that multicast debugging files have moved from
ipoibdebugfs to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  • Loading branch information
Roland Dreier authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 16, 2005
1 parent 9adec1a commit b1ed8da
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 4 deletions.
7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -32,14 +32,13 @@ Debugging Information
mcast_debug_level to 1. These parameters can be controlled at
runtime through files in /sys/module/ib_ipoib/.

CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG also enables the "ipoib_debugfs"
CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG also enables files in the debugfs
virtual filesystem. By mounting this filesystem, for example with

mkdir -p /ipoib_debugfs
mount -t ipoib_debugfs none /ipoib_debufs
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

it is possible to get statistics about multicast groups from the
files /ipoib_debugfs/ib0_mcg and so on.
files /sys/kernel/debug/ipoib/ib0_mcg and so on.

The performance impact of this option is negligible, so it
is safe to enable this option with debug_level set to 0 for normal
Expand Down

0 comments on commit b1ed8da

Please sign in to comment.