[Intel-gfx] Shader debugging
Ben Widawsky
ben at bwidawsk.net
Tue Jun 14 21:46:03 CEST 2011
The following patches enable GEN hardware shader debugging features. This is
for >= GEN6 only.
The patches are not usable without patches to the DDX as well as Mesa.
Furthermore currently a kernel ioctl is required (more on that later). As
these are all in tools, I figure I would post these now while I continue
cleaning up the other patches. Furthermore, no interactive debugging is yet
supported.
The system routine has been tested on a fragment shader (though it
should work for vertex shaders as well).
Here is a brief description of what is missing (ie. not yet ready for
mailing list):
- DDX state setup needs to cooperate when setting the Instruction
Base address.
- Mesa state setup needs to cooperate.
- Mesa need some way to set breakpoints.
- Mesa register allocation needs modification.
- Kernel ioctl to set the system routine instruction pointer
Here is what is working in the current implementation:
- System routine upload (done in Kernel IOCTL currently)
- Basic system routine
- Coherent EU/CPU communication (while ring is frozen)
- EU architectural state saving (just MRF 1-15, GRF 0-15, SR, and CR), and
saved into CPU visible space.
- Tool to read architectural state (mostly for reference).
Here is what is planned next:
- Clean up and send out what I have for Mesa, DDX, and kernel (even
though I know most of those need changes anyway).
- When I started this work nobody was using the instuction base
pointer, so I need to cooperate more closely with that now.
- Work on EU side communication (do different things based on CPU
commands).
- Change eviction macro to a loop
There's probably more which I'm forgetting right now. The 4th patch is the
gigantic, not sure how to split it up, patch. I will probably add an extremely,
more simpler system routine for basic sanity testing.
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