We're not consistently recommending these for developers only.
I stumbled over this due to DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS, which was
added in
commit 354d036fcf70654cff2e2cbdda54a835d219b9d2
Author: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 21 11:01:42 2017 +0000
drm/i915/tracepoints: Add request submit and execute tracepoints
to "alleviate the performance impact concerns."
Which is nonsense.
Tvrtko and Joonas pointed out on irc that the real (but undocumented
reason) was stable abi concerns for tracepoints, see
https://lwn.net/Articles/705270/
and the specific change that was blocked around tracepoints:
https://lwn.net/Articles/442113/
Anyway to make it a notch clearer why we have this Kconfig option
consistly add the "Recommended for driver developers only." to it and
all the other debug options we have.
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.debug | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.debug b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.debug
index 2ca88072d30f..f27c0b5873f7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.debug
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ config DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS
This provides the ability to precisely monitor engine utilisation
and also analyze the request dependency resolving timeline.
+ Recommended for driver developers only.
+
If in doubt, say "N".
config DRM_I915_DEBUG_VBLANK_EVADE
@@ -228,6 +230,8 @@ config DRM_I915_DEBUG_VBLANK_EVADE
is exceeded, even if there isn't an actual risk of missing
the vblank.
+ Recommended for driver developers only.
+
If in doubt, say "N".
config DRM_I915_DEBUG_RUNTIME_PM
@@ -240,4 +244,6 @@ config DRM_I915_DEBUG_RUNTIME_PM
runtime PM functionality. This may introduce overhead during
driver loading, suspend and resume operations.
+ Recommended for driver developers only.
+
If in doubt, say "N"
--
2.32.0.rc2
