Re: DRM IOCTLS come regularly(every minute) still even after screen off

From: "Marek Olšák" <maraeo@gmail.com>
To: "Quan, Evan" <Evan.Quan@amd.com>
Cc: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>,
	"Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>,
	"Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>,
	"Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@amd.com>,
	"amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: DRM IOCTLS come regularly(every minute) still even after screen off
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 03:19:38 -0400	[thread overview]
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Hi,

Printing the backtrace from si_flush_gfx_cs while /etc/environment contains
GALLIUM_THREAD=0 at boot should show which GL call and X call caused the
flush.

Marek

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:58 PM Quan, Evan <Evan.Quan@amd.com> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 4:12 PM
> > To: Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>; Quan, Evan
> > <Evan.Quan@amd.com>
> > Cc: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>; Koenig, Christian
> > <Christian.Koenig@amd.com>; 'amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org' <amd-
> > gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
> > Subject: Re: DRM IOCTLS come regularly(every minute) still even after
> screen
> > off
> >
> > On 2021-09-16 08:27, Christian König wrote:
> > > Good morning,
> > >
> > > for the background I advised to contact you Michel since we couldn't
> find
> > an explanation.
> > >
> > > Alex explanation might be correct, but the CS seems to come from the X
> > server and is always roughly 60 seconds after going into power save.
> > >
> > > Any idea what that could be?
> >
> > For the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_* ioctls, attaching gdb to Xorg and setting a
> > breakpoint on drmIoctl should show where they're coming from.
> >
> > The AMDGPU_CS ioctls are probably from glamor calling OpenGL, most likely
> > for X11 drawing protocol requests. Note that in this case drmIoctl/ioctl
> will
> > likely be called from a separate thread. Pierre / Marek should be able
> to help
> > you find out where the OpenGL calls are coming from.
> >
> >
> > In general, Xorg only ever does anything in response to:
> >
> > * X11 protocol requests, i.e. on behalf of clients.
> > * Input events, i.e. on behalf of the user.
> > * Other kernel events, e.g. hotplug events.
> >
> Thanks for sharing these.
> >
> > FWIW, with only xfwm4 & xterm running on Xorg, I'm not seeing any
> drmIoctl
> > calls during DPMS off. So the ioctls you're seeing are most likely
> triggered by
> > clients.
> >
> Got it. Thanks!
>
> Evan
> >
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