Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 0/5] Add module oriented dmesg output

[John Harrison <john.c.harrison@intel.com>]

On 11/18/2022 02:52, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, John.C.Harrison@Intel.com wrote:
>> From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
>>
>> When trying to analyse bug reports from CI, customers, etc. it can be
>> difficult to work out exactly what is happening on which GT in a
>> multi-GT system. So add GT oriented debug/error message wrappers. If
>> used instead of the drm_ equivalents, you get the same output but with
>> a GT# prefix on it.
>>
>> It was also requested to extend this further to submodules in order to
>> factor out the repeated structure accessing constructs and common
>> string prefixes. So, add versions for GuC, HuC and GuC CTB as well.
>>
>> This patch set updates all the gt/uc files to use the new helpers as a
>> first step. The intention would be to convert all output messages that
>> have access to a GT structure.
>>
>> v2: Go back to using lower case names, add more wrapper sets (combined
>> review feedback). Also, wrap up probe injection and WARN entries.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
> For adding the wrappers in general, I'm going to disagree and
> commit. I'll leave it up to Tvrtko and Joonas.
>
> Regarding the placement of the macros, I insist you add individual
> header files for the wrappers and include them only where needed.
>
> We have a fairly serious problem with everything including everything in
> i915 that I've been slowly trying to tackle. Touch one thing, rebuild
> everything. About a third of our headers cause the rebuild of the entire
> driver when modified. We need to reduce the surface of things that cause
> rebuilds.
>
> For example, intel_gt.h is included by 97 files, intel_guc.h by 332
> files, and intel_huc.h by 329 files (counting recursively).
>
> There's absolutely no reason any of the display code, for example, needs
> to have these logging macros in their build. Long term, the headers
> should be reorganized to reduce the interdependencies, and this is what
> I've been doing in i915_drv.h and display/ in general. But the least we
> can do is not make the problem worse.
@Tvrtko/@Michal W, any other review comments or feedback? I'd rather not 
spend time fixing up the header file issue and reposting only to have 
someone point out another issue that could have been resolved at the 
same time.

John.

> BR,
> Jani.
>
>>
>> John Harrison (5):
>>    drm/i915/gt: Start adding module oriented dmesg output
>>    drm/i915/huc: Add HuC specific debug print wrappers
>>    drm/i915/guc: Add GuC specific debug print wrappers
>>    drm/i915/guc: Add GuC CT specific debug print wrappers
>>    drm/i915/uc: Update the gt/uc code to use gt_err and friends
>>
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt.c            |  96 ++++----
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt.h            |  35 +++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c        |  32 +--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h        |  35 +++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_ads.c    |   8 +-
>>   .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_capture.c    |  48 ++--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_ct.c     | 222 +++++++++---------
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_fw.c     |  19 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_log.c    |  37 ++-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_rc.c     |   7 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c   |  55 ++---
>>   .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c |  62 +++--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c        |  31 +--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.h        |  23 ++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc.c         | 108 ++++-----
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c      |  98 ++++----
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/selftest_guc.c     |  34 +--
>>   .../drm/i915/gt/uc/selftest_guc_hangcheck.c   |  22 +-
>>   .../drm/i915/gt/uc/selftest_guc_multi_lrc.c   |  10 +-
>>   19 files changed, 507 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-)