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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Gupta, Sourab" <sourab.gupta@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/12] Support for sustained capturing of GuC firmware logs
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:21:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1464862909.2169.9.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160602101618.GE7231@phenom.ffwll.local>

On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 10:16 +0000, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> I still kinda like relayfs, except that it's not available in non-
> debug builds. But so are plenty of other really interesting files we
> have hidden in there.
> 
> sysfs isn't the solution, I already have a black eye from the sysfs
> maintainer for our error state.

Heh. I tend to agree though.

> No idea really where to put stuff. One option might be to have an
> official debug directory (like we have power already) in sysfs as the
> canonical place where drivers can dump stuff. We're not the only ones
> with too much data to get to userspace for debugging driver/hw
> issues, e.g. wireless firmware has pretty similar solutions.

We have two things in wireless:

 1) the devcoredump stuff, but that's a one-time event when something 
    bad happens and dumps a big blob into userspace, doesn't seem
    relevant here

 2) continuous logging, which uses a debugfs file (though it could be
    relayfs as well, doesn't really make a difference)

There could be something said for using tracing, but that's only
independent of debugfs since the tracefs introduction in kernel 4.1.

johannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-27 19:42 [RFC 00/12] Support for sustained capturing of GuC firmware logs akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 01/12] drm/i915: Decouple GuC log setup from verbosity parameter akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 02/12] drm/i915: Add GuC ukernel logging related fields to fw interface file akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 03/12] drm/i915: Support for GuC interrupts akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:43   ` Chris Wilson
2016-05-28  8:46     ` Goel, Akash
2016-05-27 19:56   ` Chris Wilson
2016-05-28  9:22     ` Goel, Akash
2016-05-28 12:13       ` Chris Wilson
2016-05-28 13:45         ` Goel, Akash
2016-05-28 14:35           ` Chris Wilson
2016-05-28 17:33             ` Goel, Akash
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 04/12] drm/i915: Handle log buffer flush interrupt event from GuC akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 05/12] drm/i915: Add a relay backed debugfs interface for capturing GuC logs akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 06/12] drm/i915: Store GuC ukernel logs in the relay buffer akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 07/12] drm/i915: Allocate local buffer to store GuC ukernel logs akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:42 ` [RFC 08/12] drm/i915: Store GuC ukernel logs in the local buffer akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:43 ` [RFC 09/12] drm/i915: Add a char device file interface to capture GuC ukernel logs akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:48   ` Chris Wilson
2016-05-28  8:51     ` Goel, Akash
2016-05-27 19:43 ` [RFC 10/12] drm/i915: Support to capture GuC logs by multiple clients via device file iface akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:43 ` [RFC 11/12] drm/i915: Add sysfs interface to capture the GuC ukernel logs akash.goel
2016-05-27 19:43 ` [RFC 12/12] drm/i915: Forcefully flush GuC log buffer on reset akash.goel
2016-05-28  6:09 ` ✗ Ro.CI.BAT: failure for Support for sustained capturing of GuC firmware logs Patchwork
2016-06-02 10:16 ` [RFC 00/12] " Daniel Vetter
2016-06-02 10:21   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-06-03  7:15     ` Daniel Vetter
2016-06-03 10:14       ` Goel, Akash
2016-06-03 10:20         ` Chris Wilson
2016-06-08  8:30           ` Daniel Vetter

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