Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a page on amdgpu debugging

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 12:44 PM Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Covers GPU page fault debugging and adds a reference
> > to umr.
> >
> > v2: update client ids to include SQC/G
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/index.rst     |  1 +
> >  2 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..8b7fdcdf1158
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst
> > @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
> > +===============
> > + GPU Debugging
> > +===============
> > +
> > +GPUVM Debugging
> > +===============
> > +
> > +To aid in debugging GPU virtual memory related problems, the driver supports a
> > +number of options module paramters:
> > +
> > +`vm_fault_stop` - If non-0, halt the GPU memory controller on a GPU page fault.
> > +
> > +`vm_update_mode` - If non-0, use the CPU to update GPU page tables rather than
> > +the GPU.
> > +
> > +
> > +Decoding a GPUVM Page Fault
> > +===========================
> > +
> > +If you see a GPU page fault in the kernel log, you can decode it to figure
> > +out what is going wrong in your application.  A page fault in your kernel
> > +log may look something like this:
> > +
> > +::
> > +
> > + [gfxhub0] no-retry page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:3 pasid:32777, for process glxinfo pid 2424 thread glxinfo:cs0 pid 2425)
> > +   in page starting at address 0x0000800102800000 from IH client 0x1b (UTCL2)
> > + VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00301030
> > +       Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
> > +       MORE_FAULTS: 0x0
> > +       WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
> > +       PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
> > +       MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
> > +       RW: 0x0
> > +
> > +First you have the memory hub, gfxhub and mmhub.  gfxhub is the memory
> > +hub used for graphics, compute, and sdma on some chips.  mmhub is the
> > +memory hub used for multi-media and sdma on some chips.
> > +
> > +Next you have the vmid and pasid.  If the vmid is 0, this fault was likely
> > +caused by the kernel driver or firmware.  If the vmid is non-0, it is generally
> > +a fault in a user application.  The pasid is used to link a vmid to a system
> > +process id.  If the process is active when the fault happens, the process
> > +information will be printed.
> > +
> > +The GPU virtual address that caused the fault comes next.
> > +
> > +The client ID indicates the GPU block that caused the fault.
> > +Some common client IDs:
> > +
> > +- CB/DB: The color/depth backend of the graphics pipe
> > +- CPF: Command Processor Frontend
> > +- CPC: Command Processor Compute
> > +- CPG: Command Processor Graphics
> > +- TCP/SQC/SQG: Shaders
> > +- SDMA: SDMA engines
> > +- VCN: Video encode/decode engines
> > +- JPEG: JPEG engines
> > +
> > +PERMISSION_FAULTS describe what faults were encountered:
> > +
> > +- bit 0: the PTE was not valid
> > +- bit 1: the PTE read bit was not set
> > +- bit 2: the PTE write bit was not set
> > +- bit 3: the PTE execute bit was not set
> > +
> > +Finally, RW, indicates whether the access was a read (0) or a write (1).
> > +
> > +In the example above, a shader (cliend id = TCP) generated a read (RW = 0x0) to
> > +an invalid page (PERMISSION_FAULTS = 0x3) at GPU virtual address
> > +0x0000800102800000.  The user can then inspect can then inspect their shader
>
> removed the duplicated text above locally.
>
> Alex
>
> > +code and resource descriptor state to determine what caused the GPU page fault.
> > +
> > +UMR
> > +===
> > +
> > +`umr <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr>`_ is a general purpose
> > +GPU debugging and diagnostics tool.  Please see the umr documentation for
> > +more information about its capabilities.
> > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/index.rst
> > index 912e699fd373..847e04924030 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/index.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/index.rst
> > @@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ Next (GCN), Radeon DNA (RDNA), and Compute DNA (CDNA) architectures.
> >     ras
> >     thermal
> >     driver-misc
> > +   debugging
> >     amdgpu-glossary
> > --
> > 2.44.0
> >




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