On 3/10/2022 6:10 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM Sharma, Shashank
<shashank.sharma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/10/2022 4:24 PM, Rob Clark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 1:55 AM Christian König
<ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 09.03.22 um 19:12 schrieb Rob Clark:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 11:40 PM Shashank Sharma
<contactshashanksharma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Shashank Sharma <shashank.sharma@xxxxxxx>
This patch adds a new sysfs event, which will indicate
the userland about a GPU reset, and can also provide
some information like:
- process ID of the process involved with the GPU reset
- process name of the involved process
- the GPU status info (using flags)
This patch also introduces the first flag of the flags
bitmap, which can be appended as and when required.
Why invent something new, rather than using the already existing devcoredump?
Yeah, that's a really valid question.
I don't think we need (or should encourage/allow) something drm
specific when there is already an existing solution used by both drm
and non-drm drivers. Userspace should not have to learn to support
yet another mechanism to do the same thing.
Question is how is userspace notified about new available core dumps?
I haven't looked into it too closely, as the CrOS userspace
crash-reporter already had support for devcoredump, so it "just
worked" out of the box[1]. I believe a udev event is what triggers
the crash-reporter to go read the devcore dump out of sysfs.
I had a quick look at the devcoredump code, and it doesn't look like
that is sending an event to the user, so we still need an event to
indicate a GPU reset.
There definitely is an event to userspace, I suspect somewhere down
the device_add() path?
Let me check that out as well, hope that is not due to a driver-private
event for GPU reset, coz I think I have seen some of those in a few DRM
drivers.
- Shashank
BR,
-R
