[PATCH 0/2] drm/vc4: Expose HW perf counters

[Boris Brezillon]

Hello,

Here is a proposal to expose VC4 HW perf counters to userspace. This
is done through 3 new ioctls which are allowing one to create, destroy
and query the status of a perf monitor object.

A perfmon object does not count things by its own, it has to be
attached to a SUBMIT_CL request to be activated. After the request, the
perfmon object stays around and can be attached to another request if
needed. Everytime the perfmon is attached to a SUBMIT_CL request, its
values are incremented by the HW perf counter values, so that the
counters can count things across GPU jobs. If you want to reset the
values of a perfmon, just destroy it and create a new one.

Note that the first patch is not directly related to perfmon itself,
but will allow us to easily extend what is passed to a SUBMIT_CL
request without having to add new ioctls.

Regards,

Boris
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Boris Brezillon (2):
  drm/vc4: Add a mechanism to easily extend CL submissions
  drm/vc4: Expose performance counters to userspace

 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Makefile      |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c     |  27 ++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h     |  45 +++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_gem.c     |  89 ++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_irq.c     |  13 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_regs.h    |  35 +------
 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_v3d.c     |  64 ++++++-------
 include/uapi/drm/vc4_drm.h        | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 9 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c

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