[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in drm_amdgpu_info_vbios

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Tue May 11 14:07:42 UTC 2021


Yeah, but umr is making strong use of sysfs as well.

The only justification of this interface would be if we want to use it 
in Mesa.

And I agree with Marek that looks redundant with the device structure to 
me as well.

Christian.

Am 11.05.21 um 16:04 schrieb Deucher, Alexander:
>
> [AMD Public Use]
>
>
> It's being used by umr and some other smi tools to provide vbios 
> information for debugging.
>
> Alex
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of 
> Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 11, 2021 4:18 AM
> *To:* Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>; Gu, JiaWei (Will) 
> <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>; amd-gfx list <amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>; 
> Deng, Emily <Emily.Deng at amd.com>; Alex Deucher 
> <alexdeucher at gmail.com>; Nieto, David M <David.Nieto at amd.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in 
> drm_amdgpu_info_vbios
> Mesa doesn't use sysfs.
>
> Note that this is a uapi, meaning that once it's in the kernel, it 
> can't be changed like that.
>
> What's the use case for this new interface? Isn't it partially 
> redundant with the current device info structure, which seems to have 
> the equivalent of dev_id and rev_id?
>
> Marek
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 3:51 AM Christian König 
> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Marek and other userspace folks need to decide that.
>
>     Basic question here is if Mesa is already accessing sysfs nodes
>     for OpenGL or RADV. If that is the case then we should probably
>     expose the information there as well.
>
>     If that isn't the case (which I think it is) then we should
>     implement it as IOCTL.
>
>     Regards,
>     Christian.
>
>     Am 10.05.21 um 22:19 schrieb Nieto, David M:
>>
>>     One of the primary usecases is to add this information to the
>>     renderer string, I am not sure if there are other cases of UMD
>>     drivers accessing sysfs nodes, but I think if we think
>>     permissions, if a client is authenticated and opens the render
>>     device then it can use the IOCTL, it is unclear to me we can make
>>     a such an assumption for sysfs nodes…
>>
>>     I think there is value in having both tbh.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     David
>>
>>     *From: *Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>
>>     <mailto:ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>
>>     *Date: *Monday, May 10, 2021 at 6:48 AM
>>     *To: *"Nieto, David M" <David.Nieto at amd.com>
>>     <mailto:David.Nieto at amd.com>, "Gu, JiaWei (Will)"
>>     <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com> <mailto:JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>     *Cc: *Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>     <mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com>, "Deng, Emily"
>>     <Emily.Deng at amd.com> <mailto:Emily.Deng at amd.com>, Kees Cook
>>     <keescook at chromium.org> <mailto:keescook at chromium.org>, amd-gfx
>>     list <amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>     <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>     *Subject: *Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in
>>     drm_amdgpu_info_vbios
>>
>>     Well we could add both as sysfs file(s).
>>
>>     Question here is rather what is the primary use case of this and
>>     if the application has the necessary access permissions to the
>>     sysfs files?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Christian.
>>
>>     Am 10.05.21 um 15:42 schrieb Nieto, David M:
>>
>>         Then the application would need to issue the ioctl and then
>>         open a sysfs file to get all the information it needs. It
>>         makes little sense from a programming perspective to add an
>>         incomplete interface in my opinion
>>
>>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>         *From:*Gu, JiaWei (Will) <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2021 12:13:07 AM
>>         *To:* Nieto, David M <David.Nieto at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:David.Nieto at amd.com>
>>         *Cc:* Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com>; amd-gfx list
>>         <amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>         <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>; Kees Cook
>>         <keescook at chromium.org> <mailto:keescook at chromium.org>; Deng,
>>         Emily <Emily.Deng at amd.com> <mailto:Emily.Deng at amd.com>
>>         *Subject:* RE: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in
>>         drm_amdgpu_info_vbios
>>
>>         [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
>>
>>         Hi David,
>>
>>         What I meant is to ONLY delete the serial[16] from
>>         drm_amdgpu_info_vbios, not the whole struct.
>>
>>         struct drm_amdgpu_info_vbios {
>>                 __u8 name[64];
>>                 __u32 dbdf;
>>                 __u8 vbios_pn[64];
>>                 __u32 version;
>>                 __u8 date[32];
>>                 __u8 serial[16]; // jiawei: shall we delete this
>>                 __u32 dev_id;
>>                 __u32 rev_id;
>>                 __u32 sub_dev_id;
>>                 __u32 sub_ved_id;
>>         };
>>
>>         serial[16] in drm_amdgpu_info_vbios  copied from
>>         adev->serial, but there's already a sysfs named
>>         serial_number, which exposes it already.
>>
>>         static ssize_t amdgpu_device_get_serial_number(struct device
>>         *dev,
>>                         struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>>         {
>>                 struct drm_device *ddev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>>                 struct amdgpu_device *adev = ddev->dev_private;
>>
>>                 return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", adev->serial);
>>         }
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Jiawei
>>
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         From: Nieto, David M <David.Nieto at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:David.Nieto at amd.com>
>>         Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 2:53 PM
>>         To: Gu, JiaWei (Will) <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com>; amd-gfx list
>>         <amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>         <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>; Kees Cook
>>         <keescook at chromium.org> <mailto:keescook at chromium.org>; Deng,
>>         Emily <Emily.Deng at amd.com> <mailto:Emily.Deng at amd.com>
>>         Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in
>>         drm_amdgpu_info_vbios
>>
>>         No, this structure contains all the details of the vbios:
>>         date, serial number, name, etc.
>>
>>         The sysfs node only contains the vbios name string
>>
>>         > On May 9, 2021, at 23:33, Gu, JiaWei (Will)
>>         <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com> <mailto:JiaWei.Gu at amd.com> wrote:
>>         >
>>         > [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
>>         >
>>         > With a second thought,
>>         > __u8 serial[16] in drm_amdgpu_info_vbios is a bit
>>         redundant, sysfs serial_number already exposes it.
>>         >
>>         > Is it fine to abandon it from drm_amdgpu_info_vbios struct?
>>         @Alex
>>         > Deucher @Nieto, David M
>>         >
>>         > Best regards,
>>         > Jiawei
>>         >
>>         > -----Original Message-----
>>         > From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>         > Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 11:59 PM
>>         > To: Gu, JiaWei (Will) <JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:JiaWei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         > Cc: amd-gfx list <amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>         <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>; Kees Cook
>>         > <keescook at chromium.org> <mailto:keescook at chromium.org>
>>         > Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Align serial size in
>>         > drm_amdgpu_info_vbios
>>         >
>>         >> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:48 AM Jiawei Gu
>>         <Jiawei.Gu at amd.com> <mailto:Jiawei.Gu at amd.com> wrote:
>>         >>
>>         >> 20 should be serial char size now instead of 16.
>>         >>
>>         >> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Gu <Jiawei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         <mailto:Jiawei.Gu at amd.com>
>>         >
>>         > Please make sure this keeps proper 64 bit alignment in the
>>         structure.
>>         >
>>         > Alex
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >> ---
>>         >> include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h | 2 +-
>>         >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>         >>
>>         >> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>         >> b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h index
>>         2b487a8d2727..1c20721f90da
>>         >> 100644
>>         >> --- a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>         >> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>         >> @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ struct drm_amdgpu_info_vbios {
>>         >>        __u8 vbios_pn[64];
>>         >>        __u32 version;
>>         >>        __u8 date[32];
>>         >> -       __u8 serial[16];
>>         >> +       __u8 serial[20];
>>         >>        __u32 dev_id;
>>         >>        __u32 rev_id;
>>         >>        __u32 sub_dev_id;
>>         >> --
>>         >> 2.17.1
>>         >>
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