Re: [PATCH v6 2/9] drm/xe: Add ASCII85 dump helper function

[Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 11:23:03PM -0700, John.C.Harrison@Intel.com wrote:
> From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
> 
> There is a need to include the GuC log and other large binary objects
> in core dumps and via dmesg. So add a helper for dumping to a printer
> function via conversion to ASCII85 encoding.
> 
> Another issue with dumping such a large buffer is that it can be slow,
> especially if dumping to dmesg over a serial port. So add a yield to
> prevent the 'task has been stuck for 120s' kernel hang check feature
> from firing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h |  5 ++
>  2 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> index bdb76e834e4c..eec7b89ab48b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  #include "xe_devcoredump.h"
>  #include "xe_devcoredump_types.h"
>  
> +#include <linux/ascii85.h>
>  #include <linux/devcoredump.h>
>  #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
>  
> @@ -310,3 +311,78 @@ int xe_devcoredump_init(struct xe_device *xe)
>  }
>  
>  #endif
> +
> +/**
> + * xe_print_blob_ascii85 - print a BLOB to some useful location in ASCII85
> + *
> + * The output is split to multiple lines because some print targets, e.g. dmesg
> + * cannot handle arbitrarily long lines. Note also that printing to dmesg in
> + * piece-meal fashion is not possible, each separate call to drm_puts() has a
> + * line-feed automatically added! Therefore, the entire output line must be
> + * constructed in a local buffer first, then printed in one atomic output call.
> + *
> + * There is also a scheduler yield call to prevent the 'task has been stuck for
> + * 120s' kernel hang check feature from firing when printing to a slow target
> + * such as dmesg over a serial port.
> + *
> + * TODO: Add compression prior to the ASCII85 encoding to shrink huge buffers down.
> + *
> + * @p: the printer object to output to
> + * @blob: the Binary Large OBject to dump out
> + * @offset: offset in bytes to skip from the front of the BLOB, must be a multiple of sizeof(u32)
> + * @size: the size in bytes of the BLOB, must be a multiple of sizeof(u32)
> + */
> +void xe_print_blob_ascii85(struct drm_printer *p, const void *blob, size_t offset, size_t size)
> +{
> +	const u32 *blob32 = (const u32 *)blob;
> +	char buff[ASCII85_BUFSZ], *line_buff;
> +	size_t line_pos = 0;
> +
> +#define DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN	800
> +#define MIN_SPACE		(ASCII85_BUFSZ + 2)		/* 85 + "\n\0" */
> +
> +	if (size & 3)
> +		drm_printf(p, "Size not word aligned: %zu", size);
> +	if (offset & 3)
> +		drm_printf(p, "Offset not word aligned: %zu", size);
> +
> +	line_buff = kzalloc(sizeof(DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (IS_ERR(line_buff)) {
> +		drm_printf(p, "Failed to allocate line buffer: %pe", line_buff);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	blob32 += offset / sizeof(*blob32);
> +	size /= sizeof(*blob32);
> +
> +	while (size--) {
> +		u32 val = *(blob32++);
> +
> +		strscpy(line_buff + line_pos, ascii85_encode(val, buff),
> +			DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN - line_pos);
> +		line_pos += strlen(line_buff + line_pos);
> +
> +		if ((line_pos + MIN_SPACE) >= DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN) {
> +			line_buff[line_pos++] = '\n';
> +			line_buff[line_pos++] = 0;
> +
> +			drm_puts(p, line_buff);
> +
> +			line_pos = 0;
> +
> +			/* Prevent 'stuck thread' time out errors */
> +			cond_resched();
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (line_pos) {
> +		line_buff[line_pos++] = '\n';
> +		line_buff[line_pos++] = 0;
> +
> +		drm_puts(p, line_buff);
> +	}
> +
> +	kfree(line_buff);

Dive by comment kvfree per CI. Will try to plan sometime soon to give
this series a thorough look as it has been around and definitely is
something we need.

Matt

> +
> +#undef MIN_SPACE
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> index e2fa65ce0932..3f82188590ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
>  #ifndef _XE_DEVCOREDUMP_H_
>  #define _XE_DEVCOREDUMP_H_
>  
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +struct drm_printer;
>  struct xe_device;
>  struct xe_sched_job;
>  
> @@ -23,4 +26,6 @@ static inline int xe_devcoredump_init(struct xe_device *xe)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +void xe_print_blob_ascii85(struct drm_printer *p, const void *blob, size_t offset, size_t size);
> +
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.46.0
>