.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ================= ACPI Debug Output ================= The ACPI CA, the Linux ACPI core, and some ACPI drivers can generate debug output. This document describes how to use this facility. Compile-time configuration ========================== ACPI debug output is globally enabled by CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG. If this config option is turned off, the debug messages are not even built into the kernel. Boot- and run-time configuration ================================ When CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y, you can select the component and level of messages you're interested in. At boot-time, use the acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level kernel command line options. After boot, you can use the debug_layer and debug_level files in /sys/module/acpi/parameters/ to control the debug messages. debug_layer (component) ======================= The "debug_layer" is a mask that selects components of interest, e.g., a specific driver or part of the ACPI interpreter. To build the debug_layer bitmask, look for the "#define _COMPONENT" in an ACPI source file. You can set the debug_layer mask at boot-time using the acpi.debug_layer command line argument, and you can change it after boot by writing values to /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layer. The possible components are defined in include/acpi/acoutput.h and include/acpi/acpi_drivers.h. Reading /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layer shows the supported mask values, currently these:: ACPI_UTILITIES 0x00000001 ACPI_HARDWARE 0x00000002 ACPI_EVENTS 0x00000004 ACPI_TABLES 0x00000008 ACPI_NAMESPACE 0x00000010 ACPI_PARSER 0x00000020 ACPI_DISPATCHER 0x00000040 ACPI_EXECUTER 0x00000080 ACPI_RESOURCES 0x00000100 ACPI_CA_DEBUGGER 0x00000200 ACPI_OS_SERVICES 0x00000400 ACPI_CA_DISASSEMBLER 0x00000800 ACPI_COMPILER 0x00001000 ACPI_TOOLS 0x00002000 ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT 0x00010000 ACPI_AC_COMPONENT 0x00020000 ACPI_BATTERY_COMPONENT 0x00040000 ACPI_BUTTON_COMPONENT 0x00080000 ACPI_SBS_COMPONENT 0x00100000 ACPI_FAN_COMPONENT 0x00200000 ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 0x00400000 ACPI_POWER_COMPONENT 0x00800000 ACPI_CONTAINER_COMPONENT 0x01000000 ACPI_SYSTEM_COMPONENT 0x02000000 ACPI_THERMAL_COMPONENT 0x04000000 ACPI_MEMORY_DEVICE_COMPONENT 0x08000000 ACPI_VIDEO_COMPONENT 0x10000000 ACPI_PROCESSOR_COMPONENT 0x20000000 debug_level =========== The "debug_level" is a mask that selects different types of messages, e.g., those related to initialization, method execution, informational messages, etc. To build debug_level, look at the level specified in an ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() statement. The ACPI interpreter uses several different levels, but the Linux ACPI core and ACPI drivers generally only use ACPI_LV_INFO. You can set the debug_level mask at boot-time using the acpi.debug_level command line argument, and you can change it after boot by writing values to /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level. The possible levels are defined in include/acpi/acoutput.h. Reading /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level shows the supported mask values, currently these:: ACPI_LV_INIT 0x00000001 ACPI_LV_DEBUG_OBJECT 0x00000002 ACPI_LV_INFO 0x00000004 ACPI_LV_INIT_NAMES 0x00000020 ACPI_LV_PARSE 0x00000040 ACPI_LV_LOAD 0x00000080 ACPI_LV_DISPATCH 0x00000100 ACPI_LV_EXEC 0x00000200 ACPI_LV_NAMES 0x00000400 ACPI_LV_OPREGION 0x00000800 ACPI_LV_BFIELD 0x00001000 ACPI_LV_TABLES 0x00002000 ACPI_LV_VALUES 0x00004000 ACPI_LV_OBJECTS 0x00008000 ACPI_LV_RESOURCES 0x00010000 ACPI_LV_USER_REQUESTS 0x00020000 ACPI_LV_PACKAGE 0x00040000 ACPI_LV_ALLOCATIONS 0x00100000 ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS 0x00200000 ACPI_LV_OPTIMIZATIONS 0x00400000 ACPI_LV_MUTEX 0x01000000 ACPI_LV_THREADS 0x02000000 ACPI_LV_IO 0x04000000 ACPI_LV_INTERRUPTS 0x08000000 ACPI_LV_AML_DISASSEMBLE 0x10000000 ACPI_LV_VERBOSE_INFO 0x20000000 ACPI_LV_FULL_TABLES 0x40000000 ACPI_LV_EVENTS 0x80000000 Examples ======== For example, drivers/acpi/bus.c contains this:: #define _COMPONENT ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT ... ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Device insertion detected\n")); To turn on this message, set the ACPI_BUS_COMPONENT bit in acpi.debug_layer and the ACPI_LV_INFO bit in acpi.debug_level. (The ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement uses ACPI_DB_INFO, which is macro based on the ACPI_LV_INFO definition.) Enable all AML "Debug" output (stores to the Debug object while interpreting AML) during boot:: acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 Enable PCI and PCI interrupt routing debug messages:: acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 acpi.debug_level=0x4 Enable all ACPI hardware-related messages:: acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff Enable all ACPI_DB_INFO messages after boot:: # echo 0x4 > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level Show all valid component values:: # cat /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layer