[Intel-gfx] [RFC 0/3] drm/i915: expose fifo pipe underrun counts

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:36:54AM -0800, Joe Konno wrote:
> From: Joe Konno <joe.konno at intel.com>
> 
> In tracking down a watermark bug, I discovered the pch and cpu underrun
> interrupt handlers would disable themselves after initial reports to prevent an
> interrupt/dmesg storm. Storms are bad, but underrun interrupt handling should
> not cease. For my case, I need to be able to count pch and cpu underruns for
> each pipe or transcoder. Displaying this information in the 'i915_display_info'
> node seemed the best course of action.
> 
> In order to do this, however, I had to revisit some long-standing behaviors in
> the underrun interrupt handlers. One problem became three. Thanks in advance
> for your review and feedback.
> 
> Requesting comment on the following solutions I came up with (corresponding to
> each patch in the series):
> 
>   1. provide simple 'getter' mechanisms for pch and cpu underrun reporting
>      ("is it enabled?")-- and base dmesg output on the answer to that question;
> 
>   2. don't allow the interrupt handlers to disable or filter themselves (and
>      prevent accurate counting); and finally
> 
>   3. atomically-incremented pch and cpu underrun counters, with those counters
>      displayed in debugfs i915_display_info per-pipe, per-transcoder
> 
> For: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93865

It's more complicated than this, replied with the technicalities to patch
2. But what I've forgotten to ask: What do you want to use this for? We
make sure that after a full modeset underrun reporting state is restored,
so you can retest for a given bug essentially forever, with no need to
reboot.

And we've also become a lot better at fixing the existing underruns, so
nowadays fifo reporting won't be disable right away even before you
managed to display the very first frame.
-Daniel

> 
> 
> Joe Konno (3):
>   drm/i915: get cpu, pch underrun reporting state
>   drm/i915: do not disable handler after underrun
>   drm/i915: add underrun counts to i915_display_info
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c        |  6 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h           |  4 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fifo_underrun.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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