[PATCH v4 3/7] drm/panthor: Add panthor perf initialization and termination

Lukas Zapolskas lukas.zapolskas at arm.com
Mon Jul 21 09:10:26 UTC 2025



On 18/07/2025 04:10, Adrián Larumbe wrote:
> On 16.05.2025 16:49, Lukas Zapolskas wrote:
>> Added the panthor_perf system initialization and unplug code to allow
>> for the handling of userspace sessions to be added in follow-up
>> patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Zapolskas <lukas.zapolskas at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c |  2 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h |  5 +-
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.c   | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.h   |  1 +
>>  4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
>> index 76b4cf3dc391..7ac985d44655 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void panthor_device_unplug(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>>  	/* Now, try to cleanly shutdown the GPU before the device resources
>>  	 * get reclaimed.
>>  	 */
>> +	panthor_perf_unplug(ptdev);
>>  	panthor_sched_unplug(ptdev);
>>  	panthor_fw_unplug(ptdev);
>>  	panthor_mmu_unplug(ptdev);
>> @@ -277,6 +278,7 @@ int panthor_device_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>>
>>  err_disable_autosuspend:
>>  	pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend(ptdev->base.dev);
>> +	panthor_perf_unplug(ptdev);
>>  	panthor_sched_unplug(ptdev);
>>
>>  err_unplug_fw:
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
>> index 657ccc39568c..818c4d96d448 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
>> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ struct panthor_heap_pool;
>>  struct panthor_job;
>>  struct panthor_mmu;
>>  struct panthor_fw;
>> -struct panthor_perfcnt;
>> +struct panthor_perf;
>>  struct panthor_vm;
>>  struct panthor_vm_pool;
>>
>> @@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ struct panthor_device {
>>  	/** @devfreq: Device frequency scaling management data. */
>>  	struct panthor_devfreq *devfreq;
>>
>> +	/** @perf: Performance counter management data. */
>> +	struct panthor_perf *perf;
>> +
>>  	/** @unplug: Device unplug related fields. */
>>  	struct {
>>  		/** @lock: Lock used to serialize unplug operations. */
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.c
>> index 66e9a197ac1f..9365ce9fed04 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.c
>> @@ -9,6 +9,19 @@
>>  #include "panthor_fw.h"
>>  #include "panthor_perf.h"
> 
> You must include "panthor_regs.h" here or else GPU_MEM_FEATURES_L2_SLICES() won't be available.
> However, it seems this is something that should be done in the previous patch.
> 

Will add that to the perf_info patch.

>>
>> +struct panthor_perf {
>> +	/** @next_session: The ID of the next session. */
>> +	u32 next_session;
>> +
>> +	/** @session_range: The number of sessions supported at a time. */
>> +	struct xa_limit session_range;
>> +
>> +	/**
>> +	 * @sessions: Global map of sessions, accessed by their ID.
>> +	 */
>> +	struct xarray sessions;
>> +};
>> +
>>  struct panthor_perf_counter_block {
>>  	struct drm_panthor_perf_block_header header;
>>  	u64 counters[];
>> @@ -63,14 +76,61 @@ static void panthor_perf_info_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>>   * panthor_perf_init - Initialize the performance counter subsystem.
>>   * @ptdev: Panthor device
>>   *
>> + * The performance counters require the FW interface to be available to setup the
>> + * sampling ringbuffers, so this must be called only after FW is initialized.
>> + *
>>   * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
>>   */
>>  int panthor_perf_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>>  {
>> +	struct panthor_perf *perf __free(kfree) = NULL;
>> +	int ret = 0;
>> +
>>  	if (!ptdev)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>
>>  	panthor_perf_info_init(ptdev);
>>
>> -	return 0;
>> +	perf = kzalloc(sizeof(*perf), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(perf))
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +	xa_init_flags(&perf->sessions, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC);
>> +
>> +	perf->session_range = (struct xa_limit) {
>> +		.min = 0,
>> +		.max = 1,
>> +	};
>> +
>> +	drm_info(&ptdev->base, "Performance counter subsystem initialized");
>> +
>> +	ptdev->perf = no_free_ptr(perf);
>> +
>> +	return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * panthor_perf_unplug - Terminate the performance counter subsystem.
>> + * @ptdev: Panthor device.
>> + *
>> + * This function will terminate the performance counter control structures and any remaining
>> + * sessions, after waiting for any pending interrupts.
>> + */
>> +void panthor_perf_unplug(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
>> +{
>> +	struct panthor_perf *perf = ptdev->perf;
>> +
>> +	if (!perf)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	if (!xa_empty(&perf->sessions)) {
>> +		drm_err(&ptdev->base,
>> +			"Performance counter sessions active when unplugging the driver!");
>> +	}
> 
> I think this could only happen if someone forces module unload, even
> though there might still be processes which haven't yet closed the DRM
> file?
> 

That sounds about right. The only time I have seen that warning was in development when 
the session cleanup was not being done properly on process termination.

>> +
>> +	xa_destroy(&perf->sessions);
>> +
>> +	kfree(ptdev->perf);
>> +
>> +	ptdev->perf = NULL;
>>  }
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.h
>> index 3c32c24c164c..e4805727b9e7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_perf.h
>> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>>  struct panthor_device;
>>
>>  int panthor_perf_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>> +void panthor_perf_unplug(struct panthor_device *ptdev);
>>
>>  #endif /* __PANTHOR_PERF_H__ */
>>
>> --
>> 2.33.0.dirty
> 
> Adrian Larumbe



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