History log of /linux-master/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# 77d17c4c 12-Feb-2024 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

Documentation/gpu: Update documentation on drm-shared-*

Clarify the documentation in preparation for updated
helpers which check the handle count as well as whether
a dma-buf has been attached.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231207180225.439482-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com/
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.keonig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>


# f11b0417 29-Sep-2023 Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@collabora.com>

drm/panfrost: Add fdinfo support GPU load metrics

The drm-stats fdinfo tags made available to user space are drm-engine,
drm-cycles, drm-max-freq and drm-curfreq, one per job slot.

This deviates from standard practice in other DRM drivers, where a single
set of key:value pairs is provided for the whole render engine. However,
Panfrost has separate queues for fragment and vertex/tiler jobs, so a
decision was made to calculate bus cycles and workload times separately.

Maximum operating frequency is calculated at devfreq initialisation time.
Current frequency is made available to user space because nvtop uses it
when performing engine usage calculations.

It is important to bear in mind that both GPU cycle and kernel time numbers
provided are at best rough estimations, and always reported in excess from
the actual figure because of two reasons:
- Excess time because of the delay between the end of a job processing,
the subsequent job IRQ and the actual time of the sample.
- Time spent in the engine queue waiting for the GPU to pick up the next
job.

To avoid race conditions during enablement/disabling, a reference counting
mechanism was introduced, and a job flag that tells us whether a given job
increased the refcount. This is necessary, because user space can toggle
cycle counting through a debugfs file, and a given job might have been in
flight by the time cycle counting was disabled.

The main goal of the debugfs cycle counter knob is letting tools like nvtop
or IGT's gputop switch it at any time, to avoid power waste in case no
engine usage measuring is necessary.

Also add a documentation file explaining the possible values for fdinfo's
engine keystrings and Panfrost-specific drm-curfreq-<keystr> pairs.

Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230929181616.2769345-3-adrian.larumbe@collabora.com


# d56b699d 14-Aug-2023 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

Documentation: Fix typos

Fix typos in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 90d63a15 24-May-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

drm/doc: Relax fdinfo string constraints

The restriction about no whitespace, etc, really only applies to the
usage of strings in keys. Values can contain anything (other than
newline).

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230524155956.382440-8-robdclark@gmail.com


# 686b21b5 24-May-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

drm: Add fdinfo memory stats

Add support to dump GEM stats to fdinfo.

v2: Fix typos, change size units to match docs, use div_u64
v3: Do it in core
v4: more kerneldoc
v5: doc fixes
v6: Actually use u64, bit more comment docs

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230524155956.382440-6-robdclark@gmail.com


# 3f09a0cd 24-May-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

drm: Add common fdinfo helper

Handle a bit of the boiler-plate in a single case, and make it easier to
add some core tracked stats. This also ensures consistent behavior
across drivers for standardised fields.

v2: Update drm-usage-stats.rst, 64b client-id, rename drm_show_fdinfo
v3: Rebase on drm-misc-next

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230524155956.382440-3-robdclark@gmail.com


# 0020582a 24-May-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

drm/docs: Fix usage stats typos

Fix a couple missing ':'s.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230524155956.382440-2-robdclark@gmail.com


# 39a10b6a 07-Nov-2022 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

Documentation/gpu: Fix section in the wrong scope

That section should still be inside "DRM client usage stats" rather than
as a sibling.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221107173209.2219571-2-lucas.demarchi@intel.com


# cfebe3fd 09-Jun-2022 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

drm/msm: Expose client engine utilization via fdinfo

Similar to AMD commit
874442541133 ("drm/amdgpu: Add show_fdinfo() interface"), using the
infrastructure added in previous patches, we add basic client info
and GPU engine utilisation for msm.

Example output:

# cat /proc/`pgrep glmark2`/fdinfo/6
pos: 0
flags: 02400002
mnt_id: 21
ino: 162
drm-driver: msm
drm-client-id: 7
drm-engine-gpu: 1734371319 ns
drm-cycles-gpu: 1153645024
drm-maxfreq-gpu: 800000000 Hz

See also: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/468505/

v2: Add dev-maxfreq-$engine and update drm-usage-stats.rst
v3: spelling and compiler warning

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/488906/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609174213.2265938-2-robdclark@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>


# 055634e4 01-Apr-2022 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

drm/i915: Expose client engine utilisation via fdinfo

Similar to AMD commit
874442541133 ("drm/amdgpu: Add show_fdinfo() interface"), using the
infrastructure added in previous patches, we add basic client info
and GPU engine utilisation for i915.

Example of the output:

pos: 0
flags: 0100002
mnt_id: 21
drm-driver: i915
drm-pdev: 0000:00:02.0
drm-client-id: 7
drm-engine-render: 9288864723 ns
drm-engine-copy: 2035071108 ns
drm-engine-video: 0 ns
drm-engine-video-enhance: 0 ns

v2:
* Update for removal of name and pid.

v3:
* Use drm_driver.name.

v4:
* Added drm-engine-capacity- tag.
* Fix typo. (Umesh)

v5:
* Don't output engine data before Gen8.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: David M Nieto <David.Nieto@amd.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220401142205.3123159-9-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com


# 2d12d3da 01-Apr-2022 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

drm: Document fdinfo format specification

Proposal to standardise the fdinfo text format as optionally output by DRM
drivers.

Idea is that a simple but, well defined, spec will enable generic
userspace tools to be written while at the same time avoiding a more heavy
handed approach of adding a mid-layer to DRM.

i915 implements a subset of the spec, everything apart from the memory
stats currently, and a matching intel_gpu_top tool exists.

Open is to see if AMD can migrate to using the proposed GPU utilisation
key-value pairs, or if they are not workable to see whether to go
vendor specific, or if a standardised alternative can be found which is
workable for both drivers.

Same for the memory utilisation key-value pairs proposal.

v2:
* Update for removal of name and pid.

v3:
* 'Drm-driver' tag will be obtained from struct drm_driver.name. (Daniel)

v4:
* Added drm-engine-capacity- tag.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: David M Nieto <David.Nieto@amd.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220401142205.3123159-7-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com