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From: Gabriela Bittencourt <gabrielabittencourt00@gmail.com>
To: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, manasi.d.navare@intel.com,
	rodrigosiqueiramelo@gmail.com, maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com,
	mripard@kernel.org, sean@poorly.run, airlied@linux.ie,
	daniel@ffwll.ch, corbet@lwn.net, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
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	lkcamp@lists.libreplanetbr.org
Cc: Gabriela Bittencourt <gabrielabittencourt00@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/doc: Adding VKMS module description and use to "Testing and Validation"
Date: Fri,  1 Nov 2019 12:43:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191101154314.25435-1-gabrielabittencourt00@gmail.com> (raw)

Add a description on VKMS module and the cases in which it should be used.
There's a brief explanation on how to set it and use it in a VM, along with
an example of running an igt-test.

Signed-off-by: Gabriela Bittencourt <gabrielabittencourt00@gmail.com>

---

Changes in v2:
- Avoid repetition of words in the same sentence;
- Make the explanation on 'setting the kernel' shorter, eliminate the
'make menuconfig' command;
- Add tab on enumeration to have one line per item;
- Clarify from each machine igt-tests commands should be ran on.

Tested the patch using 'make htmldocs' to make sure the output .html is
correct.

Hi DRM-community,
this is my first (of many, I hope)  patch in this subsystem. I hope to have
a lot of learning (and fun :)) working with you guys.
I'm starting by documenting the VKMS driver in "Userland interfaces", if I
have been inaccurate in my description or if I misunderstood some concept,
please let me know.
---
 Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
index 94f90521f58c..1586cbba05d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
@@ -285,6 +285,42 @@ run-tests.sh is a wrapper around piglit that will execute the tests matching
 the -t options. A report in HTML format will be available in
 ./results/html/index.html. Results can be compared with piglit.
 
+Using VKMS to test DRM API
+--------------------------
+
+VKMS is a software-only model of a KMS driver that is useful for testing
+and for running compositors. VKMS aims to enable a virtual display without
+the need for a hardware display capability. These characteristics made VKMS
+a perfect tool for validating the DRM core behavior and also support the
+compositor developer. VKMS makes it possible to test DRM functions in a
+virtual machine without display, simplifing the validation of some of the
+core changes.
+
+To Validate changes in DRM API with VKMS, start setting the kernel: make
+sure to enable VKMS module; compile the kernel with the VKMS enabled and
+install it in the target machine. VKMS can be run in a Virtual Machine
+(QEMU, virtme or similar). It's recommended the use of KVM with the minimum
+of 1GB of RAM and four cores.
+
+It's possible to run the IGT-tests in a VM in two ways:
+	1. Use IGT inside a VM
+	2. Use IGT from the host machine and write the results in a shared directory.
+
+As follow, there is an example of using a VM with a shared directory with
+the host machine to run igt-tests. As example it's used virtme::
+
+	$ virtme-run --rwdir /path/for/shared_dir --kdir=path/for/kernel/directory --mods=auto
+
+Run the igt-tests in the guest machine, as example it's ran the 'kms_flip'
+tests::
+
+	$ /path/for/igt-gpu-tools/scripts/run-tests.sh -p -s -t "kms_flip.*" -v
+
+In this example, instead of build the igt_runner, Piglit is used
+(-p option); it's created html summary of the tests results and it's saved
+in the folder "igt-gpu-tools/results"; it's executed only the igt-tests
+matching the -t option.
+
 Display CRC Support
 -------------------
 
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-01 15:43 Gabriela Bittencourt [this message]
2019-11-04 15:06 ` [PATCH v2] drm/doc: Adding VKMS module description and use to "Testing and Validation" Rodrigo Siqueira

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