[PATCH v2 1/2] drm: Add GPU reset sysfs event

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 07:03:27 UTC 2022


Am 16.03.22 um 16:36 schrieb Rob Clark:
> [SNIP]
> just one point of clarification.. in the msm and i915 case it is
> purely for debugging and telemetry (ie. sending crash logs back to
> distro for analysis if user has crash reporting enabled).. it isn't
> used for triggering any action like killing app or compositor.

By the way, how does msm it's memory management for the devcoredumps?

I mean it is strictly forbidden to allocate any memory in the GPU reset 
path.

> I would however *strongly* recommend devcoredump support in other GPU
> drivers (i915's thing pre-dates devcoredump by a lot).. I've used it
> to debug and fix a couple obscure issues that I was not able to
> reproduce by myself.

Yes, completely agree as well.

Thanks,
Christian.

>
> BR,
> -R



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