[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Add sysfs file for VBIOS

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 15:39:06 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Kuehling, Felix
<Felix.Kuehling at amd.com> wrote:
> Debugfs is only accessible by Root. The BIOS version is already reported in the kernel log, which is visible to everyone. So why hide this away in debugfs?
>
> I think Kent's intention is to add VBIOS version reporting to the rocm-smi tool. I'd prefer using a stable interface like sysfs, and one that doesn't require root access in a tool like rocm-smi.
>

Ah, ok, sysfs is fine in that case.  I thought this was just general
debugging stuff.

Alex

> Regards,
>   Felix
> ________________________________________
> From: amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Russell, Kent <Kent.Russell at amd.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 9:06:22 AM
> To: Alex Deucher
> Cc: Christian König; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Add sysfs file for VBIOS
>
> I can definitely add that as well.
>
>  Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Deucher [mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 8:56 AM
> To: Russell, Kent
> Cc: Christian König; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Add sysfs file for VBIOS
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Russell, Kent <Kent.Russell at amd.com> wrote:
>> No real reason for sysfs instead of debugfs, I just picked the one that was more familiar with. I can definitely move it to debugfs instead. I will also clean up the commit message per Michel's comments. Thank you!
>>
>
> While you are at it, can you expose the vbios binary itself via debugfs?  That's been on by todo list for a while.
>
> Alex
>
>>  Kent
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian König [mailto:deathsimple at vodafone.de]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 2:22 AM
>> To: Russell, Kent; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Add sysfs file for VBIOS
>>
>> Am 23.08.2017 um 20:12 schrieb Kent Russell:
>>> This won't change after initialization, so we can add the information
>>> when we parse the atombios information. This ensures that we can find
>>> out the VBIOS, even when the dmesg buffer fills up, and makes it
>>> easier to associate which VBIOS is for which GPU on mGPU
>>> configurations. Set the size to 20 characters in case of some weird
>>> VBIOS suffix that exceeds the expected 17 character format (3-8-3\0)
>>
>> Is there any reason that needs to be sysfs? Sounds more like an use case for debugfs.
>>
>> Christian.
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kent Russell <kent.russell at amd.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c          |  5 ++++-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h          |  1 +
>>>   3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>> index a1f9424..f40be71 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>> @@ -888,6 +888,20 @@ static uint32_t cail_ioreg_read(struct card_info *info, uint32_t reg)
>>>       return r;
>>>   }
>>>
>>> +static ssize_t amdgpu_atombios_get_vbios_version(struct device *dev,
>>> +                                              struct device_attribute *attr,
>>> +                                              char *buf) {
>>> +     struct drm_device *ddev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>>> +     struct amdgpu_device *adev = ddev->dev_private;
>>> +     struct atom_context *ctx = adev->mode_info.atom_context;
>>> +
>>> +     return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", ctx->vbios_version); }
>>> +
>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR(vbios_version, 0444, amdgpu_atombios_get_vbios_version,
>>> +                NULL);
>>> +
>>>   /**
>>>    * amdgpu_atombios_fini - free the driver info and callbacks for atombios
>>>    *
>>> @@ -907,6 +921,7 @@ static void amdgpu_atombios_fini(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>       adev->mode_info.atom_context = NULL;
>>>       kfree(adev->mode_info.atom_card_info);
>>>       adev->mode_info.atom_card_info = NULL;
>>> +     device_remove_file(adev->dev, &dev_attr_vbios_version);
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   /**
>>> @@ -923,6 +938,7 @@ static int amdgpu_atombios_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>   {
>>>       struct card_info *atom_card_info =
>>>           kzalloc(sizeof(struct card_info), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +     int ret;
>>>
>>>       if (!atom_card_info)
>>>               return -ENOMEM;
>>> @@ -959,6 +975,13 @@ static int amdgpu_atombios_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>               amdgpu_atombios_scratch_regs_init(adev);
>>>               amdgpu_atombios_allocate_fb_scratch(adev);
>>>       }
>>> +
>>> +     ret = device_create_file(adev->dev, &dev_attr_vbios_version);
>>> +     if (ret) {
>>> +             DRM_ERROR("Failed to create device file for VBIOS version\n");
>>> +             return ret;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>>       return 0;
>>>   }
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
>>> index d69aa2e..69500a8 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
>>> @@ -1343,8 +1343,11 @@ struct atom_context *amdgpu_atom_parse(struct card_info *card, void *bios)
>>>               idx = 0x80;
>>>
>>>       str = CSTR(idx);
>>> -     if (*str != '\0')
>>> +     if (*str != '\0') {
>>>               pr_info("ATOM BIOS: %s\n", str);
>>> +             strlcpy(ctx->vbios_version, str, sizeof(ctx->vbios_version));
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>>
>>>       return ctx;
>>>   }
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h
>>> index ddd8045..a391709 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.h
>>> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct atom_context {
>>>       int io_mode;
>>>       uint32_t *scratch;
>>>       int scratch_size_bytes;
>>> +     char vbios_version[20];
>>>   };
>>>
>>>   extern int amdgpu_atom_debug;
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