From: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] drm/trace: Buffer DRM logs in a ringbuffer accessible via debugfs
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:41:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115134158.GC25564@art_vandelay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157908459623.12549.3531242692320169983@skylake-alporthouse-com>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:36:36AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Sean Paul (2020-01-14 17:21:43)
> > From: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
> >
> > This patch uses a ring_buffer to keep a "flight recorder" (name credit Weston)
> > of DRM logs for a specified set of debug categories. The user writes a
> > bitmask of debug categories to the "trace_mask" node and can read log
> > messages from the "trace" node.
> >
> > These nodes currently exist in debugfs under the dri directory. I
> > intended on exposing all of this through tracefs originally, but the
> > tracefs entry points are not exposed, so there's no way to create
> > tracefs files from drivers at the moment. I think it would be a
> > worthwhile endeavour, but one requiring more time and conversation to
> > ensure the drm traces fit somewhere sensible.
>
> Fwiw, I have a need for client orientated debug message store, with
> the primary purpose of figuring out -EINVAL. We need per-client so we can
> put sensitive information about the potentially buggy client behaviour,
> and of course it needs to be accessible by the non-privileged client.
>
> On the execution side, it's easy to keep track of the client so we could
> trace execution flow per client, within reason. And we could do
> similarly for kms clients.
Could you build such a thing with drm_trace underpinning it, just put the
pertinent information in the message?
>
> Just chiming to say, I don't think a duplicate of dmesg hidden inside
> debugfs achieves much. But a generic tracek-esque ringbuf would be very
> useful -- even if only so we can separate our GEM_TRACE from the global
> tracek.
I think that's essentially what we've got, I've just narrowly focused on
surfacing debug logs. If drm_trace_printf were exported, replacing
GEM_TRACE would be as simple as s/trace_printk/drm_trace_printf/. Initially I
thought exporting it to drivers would be a bad idea, but I'm open to changing my
mind on this as long as drivers are using it responsibly.
Sean
> -Chris
--
Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 17:21 [PATCH v4] drm/trace: Buffer DRM logs in a ringbuffer accessible via debugfs Sean Paul
2020-01-14 17:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-01-15 9:25 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-01-15 10:14 ` Pekka Paalanen
2020-01-15 13:31 ` Sean Paul
2020-01-15 10:28 ` Jani Nikula
2020-01-15 13:34 ` Sean Paul
2020-01-15 10:36 ` Chris Wilson
2020-01-15 13:41 ` Sean Paul [this message]
2020-01-15 14:01 ` Chris Wilson
2020-01-15 14:21 ` Sean Paul
2020-01-15 17:38 ` Chris Wilson
2020-01-15 18:29 ` Sean Paul
2020-01-16 6:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-01-20 18:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-01-22 8:06 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-01-22 15:39 ` Sean Paul
2020-01-27 8:58 ` Daniel Vetter
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