[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] tools/intel_guc_logger: Utility for capturing GuC firmware logs in a file

Tvrtko Ursulin tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 7 15:39:10 UTC 2016


On 07/09/16 16:27, akash.goel at intel.com wrote:
> From: Akash Goel <akash.goel at intel.com>
>
> This patch provides a test utility which helps capture GuC firmware logs and
> then dump them to file.
> The logs are pulled from a debugfs file '/sys/kernel/debug/dri/guc_log' and
> stored into a file '/tmp/guc_log_dump.dat', the name of the output file can
> be changed through a command line argument.
>
> The utility goes into an infinite loop where it waits for the arrival of new
> logs and as soon as new set of logs are produced it captures them in its local
> buffer which is then flushed out to the file on disk.
> Any time when logging needs to be ended, User can stop this utility (CTRL+C).
>
> Before entering into a loop, it first discards whatever logs are present in
> the debugfs file.
> This way User can first launch this utility and then start a workload/activity
> for which GuC firmware logs are to be actually captured and keep running the
> utility for as long as its needed, like once the workload is over this utility
> can be forcefully stopped.
>
> If the logging wasn't enabled on GuC side by the Driver at boot time, utility
> will first enable the logging and later on when it is stopped (CTRL+C) it will
> also pause the logging on GuC side.
>
> v2:
> - Use combination of alarm system call & SIGALRM signal to run the utility
>    for required duration. (Tvrtko)
> - Fix inconsistencies, do minor cleanup and refactoring. (Tvrtko)
>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel at intel.com>
> ---
>   tools/Makefile.sources   |   1 +
>   tools/intel_guc_logger.c | 425 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 426 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 tools/intel_guc_logger.c
>
> diff --git a/tools/Makefile.sources b/tools/Makefile.sources
> index 2bb6c8e..be58871 100644
> --- a/tools/Makefile.sources
> +++ b/tools/Makefile.sources
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ tools_prog_lists =		\
>   	intel_gpu_time		\
>   	intel_gpu_top		\
>   	intel_gtt		\
> +	intel_guc_logger        \
>   	intel_infoframes	\
>   	intel_l3_parity		\
>   	intel_lid		\
> diff --git a/tools/intel_guc_logger.c b/tools/intel_guc_logger.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6e03282
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/intel_guc_logger.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,425 @@
> +
> +#define _GNU_SOURCE  /* For using O_DIRECT */
> +#include <inttypes.h>
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <fcntl.h>
> +#include <sched.h>
> +#include <sys/ioctl.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <signal.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include <sys/poll.h>
> +#include <sys/wait.h>
> +#include <sys/types.h>
> +#include <sys/syscall.h>
> +#include <sys/mman.h>
> +#include <assert.h>
> +#include <pthread.h>
> +
> +#include "igt.h"
> +
> +#define MB(x) ((uint64_t)(x) * 1024 * 1024)
> +#ifndef PAGE_SIZE
> +  #define PAGE_SIZE 4096
> +#endif
> +#define SUBBUF_SIZE (19*PAGE_SIZE)
> +/* Need large buffering from logger side to hide the DISK IO latency, Driver
> + * can only store 8 snapshots of GuC log buffer in relay.
> + */
> +#define NUM_SUBBUFS 100
> +
> +#define RELAY_FILE_NAME  "guc_log"
> +#define DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME  "guc_log_dump.dat"
> +#define CONTROL_FILE_NAME "i915_guc_log_control"
> +
> +char *read_buffer;
> +char *out_filename;
> +int poll_timeout = 2; /* by default 2ms timeout */
> +pthread_mutex_t mutex;
> +pthread_t flush_thread;
> +int verbosity_level = 3; /* by default capture logs at max verbosity */
> +uint32_t produced, consumed;
> +uint64_t total_bytes_written;
> +int num_buffers = NUM_SUBBUFS;
> +int relay_fd, outfile_fd = -1;
> +bool stop_logging, discard_oldlogs;
> +uint32_t test_duration, max_filesize;
> +pthread_cond_t underflow_cond, overflow_cond;
> +
> +static void guc_log_control(bool enable_logging)
> +{
> +	int control_fd;
> +	char data[19];
> +	uint64_t val;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	control_fd = igt_debugfs_open(CONTROL_FILE_NAME, O_WRONLY);
> +	igt_assert_f(control_fd >= 0, "couldn't open the guc log control file");
> +
> +	val = enable_logging ? ((verbosity_level << 4) | 0x1) : 0;
> +
> +	ret = snprintf(data, sizeof(data), "0x%" PRIx64, val);
> +	igt_assert(ret > 2 && ret < sizeof(data));
> +
> +	ret = write(control_fd, data, ret);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret > 0, "couldn't write to the log control file");
> +
> +	close(control_fd);
> +}
> +
> +static void int_sig_handler(int sig)
> +{
> +	igt_info("received signal %d\n", sig);
> +
> +	stop_logging = true;
> +}
> +
> +static void pull_leftover_data(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned int bytes_read = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	do {
> +		/* Read the logs from relay buffer */
> +		ret = read(relay_fd, read_buffer, SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +		if (!ret)
> +			break;
> +
> +		igt_assert_f(ret > 0, "failed to read from the guc log file");
> +		igt_assert_f(ret == SUBBUF_SIZE, "invalid read from relay file");
> +
> +		bytes_read += ret;
> +
> +		if (outfile_fd >= 0) {
> +			ret = write(outfile_fd, read_buffer, SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +			igt_assert_f(ret == SUBBUF_SIZE, "couldn't dump the logs in a file");
> +			total_bytes_written += ret;
> +		}
> +	} while(1);
> +
> +	igt_debug("%u bytes flushed\n", bytes_read);
> +}
> +
> +static int num_filled_bufs(void)
> +{
> +	return (produced - consumed);
> +}
> +
> +static void pull_data(void)
> +{
> +	char *ptr;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
> +	while (num_filled_bufs() >= num_buffers) {
> +		igt_debug("overflow, will wait, produced %u, consumed %u\n", produced, consumed);
> +		/* Stall the main thread in case of overflow, as there are no
> +		 * buffers available to store the new logs, otherwise there
> +		 * could be corruption if both threads work on the same buffer.
> +		 */
> +		pthread_cond_wait(&overflow_cond, &mutex);
> +	};
> +	pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> +
> +	ptr = read_buffer + (produced % num_buffers) * SUBBUF_SIZE;
> +
> +	/* Read the logs from relay buffer */
> +	ret = read(relay_fd, ptr, SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret >= 0, "failed to read from the guc log file");
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == SUBBUF_SIZE, "invalid read from relay file");
> +
> +	if (ret) {
> +		pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
> +		produced++;
> +		pthread_cond_signal(&underflow_cond);
> +		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void *flusher(void *arg)
> +{
> +	char *ptr;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	igt_debug("execution started of flusher thread\n");
> +
> +	do {
> +		pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
> +		while (!num_filled_bufs()) {
> +			/* Exit only after completing the flush of all the filled
> +			 * buffers as User would expect that all logs captured up
> +			 * till the point of interruption/exit are written out to
> +			 * the disk file.
> +			 */
> +			if (stop_logging) {
> +				igt_debug("flusher to exit now\n");
> +				pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> +				return NULL;
> +			}
> +			pthread_cond_wait(&underflow_cond, &mutex);
> +		};
> +		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> +
> +		ptr = read_buffer + (consumed % num_buffers) * SUBBUF_SIZE;
> +
> +		ret = write(outfile_fd, ptr, SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +		igt_assert_f(ret == SUBBUF_SIZE, "couldn't dump the logs in a file");
> +
> +		total_bytes_written += ret;
> +		if (max_filesize && (total_bytes_written > MB(max_filesize))) {
> +			igt_debug("reached the target of %" PRIu64 " bytes\n", MB(max_filesize));
> +			stop_logging = true;
> +		}
> +
> +		pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
> +		consumed++;
> +		pthread_cond_signal(&overflow_cond);
> +		pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> +	} while(1);
> +
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static void init_flusher_thread(void)
> +{
> +	struct sched_param	thread_sched;
> +	pthread_attr_t		p_attr;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	pthread_cond_init(&underflow_cond, NULL);
> +	pthread_cond_init(&overflow_cond, NULL);
> +	pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, NULL);
> +
> +	ret = pthread_attr_init(&p_attr);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "error obtaining default thread attributes");
> +
> +	ret = pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&p_attr, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "couldn't set inheritsched");
> +
> +	ret = pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&p_attr, SCHED_RR);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "couldn't set thread scheduling policy");
> +
> +	/* Keep the flusher task also at rt priority, so that it doesn't get
> +	 * too late in flushing the collected logs in local buffers to the disk,
> +	 * and so main thread always have spare buffers to collect the logs.
> +	 */
> +	thread_sched.sched_priority = 5;
> +	ret = pthread_attr_setschedparam(&p_attr, &thread_sched);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "couldn't set thread priority");
> +
> +	ret = pthread_create(&flush_thread, &p_attr, flusher, NULL);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "thread creation failed");
> +
> +	ret = pthread_attr_destroy(&p_attr);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "error destroying thread attributes");
> +}
> +
> +static void open_relay_file(void)
> +{
> +	relay_fd = igt_debugfs_open(RELAY_FILE_NAME, O_RDONLY);
> +	igt_assert_f(relay_fd >= 0, "couldn't open the guc log file");
> +
> +	/* Purge the old/boot-time logs from the relay buffer.
> +	 * This is more for Val team's requirement, where they have to first
> +	 * purge the existing logs before starting the tests for which the logs
> +	 * are actually needed. After this logger will enter into a loop and
> +	 * wait for the new data, at that point benchmark can be launched from
> +	 * a different shell.
> +	 */
> +	if (discard_oldlogs)
> +		pull_leftover_data();
> +}
> +
> +static void open_output_file(void)
> +{
> +	/* Use Direct IO mode for the output file, as the data written is not
> +	 * supposed to be accessed again, this saves a copy of data from App's
> +	 * buffer to kernel buffer (Page cache). Due to no buffering on kernel
> +	 * side, data is flushed out to disk faster and more buffering can be
> +	 * done on the logger side to hide the disk IO latency.
> +	 */
> +	outfile_fd = open(out_filename ? : DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME,
> +			  O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_DIRECT,
> +			  0440);
> +	igt_assert_f(outfile_fd >= 0, "couldn't open the output file");
> +
> +	free(out_filename);
> +}
> +
> +static void init_main_thread(void)
> +{
> +	struct sched_param	thread_sched;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/* Run the main thread at highest priority to ensure that it always
> +	 * gets woken-up at earliest on arrival of new data and so is always
> +	 * ready to pull the logs, otherwise there could be loss logs if
> +	 * GuC firmware is generating logs at a very high rate.
> +	 */
> +	thread_sched.sched_priority = 1;
> +	ret = sched_setscheduler(getpid(), SCHED_FIFO, &thread_sched);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "couldn't set the priority");
> +
> +	if (signal(SIGINT, int_sig_handler) == SIG_ERR)
> +		igt_assert_f(0, "SIGINT handler registration failed");
> +
> +	if (signal(SIGALRM, int_sig_handler) == SIG_ERR)
> +		igt_assert_f(0, "SIGALRM handler registration failed");
> +
> +	/* Need an aligned pointer for direct IO */
> +	ret = posix_memalign((void **)&read_buffer, PAGE_SIZE, num_buffers * SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "couldn't allocate the read buffer");
> +
> +	/* Keep the pages locked in RAM, avoid page fault overhead */
> +	ret = mlock(read_buffer, num_buffers * SUBBUF_SIZE);
> +	igt_assert_f(ret == 0, "failed to lock memory");
> +
> +	/* Enable the logging, it may not have been enabled from boot and so
> +	 * the relay file also wouldn't have been created.
> +	 */
> +	guc_log_control(true);
> +
> +	open_relay_file();
> +	open_output_file();
> +}
> +
> +static int parse_options(int opt, int opt_index, void *data)
> +{
> +	igt_debug("opt %c optarg %s\n", opt, optarg);
> +
> +	switch(opt) {
> +	case 'v':
> +		verbosity_level = atoi(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(verbosity_level < 0 || verbosity_level > 3, "invalid input for -v option");
> +		igt_debug("verbosity level to be used is %d\n", verbosity_level);
> +		break;
> +	case 'o':
> +		out_filename = strdup(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(out_filename, "Couldn't allocate the o/p filename");
> +		igt_debug("logs to be stored in file %s\n", out_filename);
> +		break;
> +	case 'b':
> +		num_buffers = atoi(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(num_buffers > 0, "invalid input for -b option");
> +		igt_debug("number of buffers to be used is %d\n", num_buffers);
> +		break;
> +	case 't':
> +		test_duration = atoi(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(test_duration > 0, "invalid input for -t option");
> +		igt_debug("logger to run for %d seconds\n", test_duration);
> +		break;
> +	case 'p':
> +		poll_timeout = atoi(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(poll_timeout != 0, "invalid input for -p option");
> +		if (poll_timeout > 0)
> +			igt_debug("polling to be done with %d milli seconds timeout\n", poll_timeout);
> +		break;
> +	case 's':
> +		max_filesize = atoi(optarg);
> +		igt_assert_f(max_filesize > 0, "invalid input for -s option");
> +		igt_debug("max allowed size of the output file is %d MBs\n", max_filesize);
> +		break;
> +	case 'd':
> +		discard_oldlogs = true;
> +		igt_debug("old/boot-time logs will be discarded\n");
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void process_command_line(int argc, char **argv)
> +{
> +	static struct option long_options[] = {
> +		{"verbosity", required_argument, 0, 'v'},
> +		{"outputfilename", required_argument, 0, 'o'},
> +		{"buffers", required_argument, 0, 'b'},
> +		{"testduration", required_argument, 0, 't'},
> +		{"polltimeout", required_argument, 0, 'p'},
> +		{"size", required_argument, 0, 's'},
> +		{"discard", no_argument, 0, 'd'},
> +		{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> +	};
> +
> +	const char *help =
> +		"  -v --verbosity=level   verbosity level of GuC logging (0-3)\n"
> +		"  -o --outfile=name      name of the output file in /tmp directory, where logs will be stored\n"
> +		"  -b --buffers=num       number of buffers to be maintained on logger side for storing logs\n"
> +		"  -t --testduration=sec  max duration in seconds for which the logger should run, 0 == forever\n"
> +		"  -p --polltimeout=ms    polling timeout in ms, -1 == indefinite wait for the new data\n"
> +		"  -s --size=MB           max size of output file in MBs after which logging will be stopped, 0 == no limit\n"
> +		"  -d --discard           discard the old/boot-time logs before entering into the capture loop\n";
> +
> +	igt_simple_init_parse_opts(&argc, argv, "v:o:b:t:p:s:d", long_options,
> +				   help, parse_options, NULL);
> +}
> +
> +int main(int argc, char **argv)
> +{
> +	struct pollfd relay_poll_fd;
> +	int nfds;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	process_command_line(argc, argv);
> +
> +	init_main_thread();
> +
> +	/* Use a separate thread for flushing the logs to a file on disk.
> +	 * Main thread will buffer the data from relay file in its pool of
> +	 * buffers and other thread will flush the data to disk in background.
> +	 * This is needed, albeit by default data is written out to disk in
> +	 * async mode, as when there are too many dirty pages in the RAM,
> +	 * (/proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio), kernel starts blocking the processes
> +	 * doing the file writes.
> +	 */
> +	init_flusher_thread();
> +
> +	relay_poll_fd.fd = relay_fd;
> +	relay_poll_fd.events = POLLIN;
> +	relay_poll_fd.revents = 0;
> +
> +	nfds = 1; /* only one fd to poll */
> +
> +	alarm(test_duration); /* Start the alarm */
> +
> +	do {
> +		/* Wait/poll for the new data to be available, relay doesn't
> +		 * provide a blocking read.
> +		 * On older kernels need to do polling with a timeout instead of
> +		 * indefinite wait to avoid relying on relay for the wakeup, as
> +		 * relay used to do the wakeup in a deferred manner on jiffies
> +		 * granularity by scheduling a timer and moreover that timer was
> +		 * re-scheduled on every newly produced buffer and so was pushed
> +		 * out if there were multiple flush interrupts in a very quick
> +		 * succession (less than a jiffy gap between 2 flush interrupts)
> +		 * causing relay to run out of sub buffers to store new logs.
> +		 */
> +		ret = poll(&relay_poll_fd, nfds, poll_timeout);
> +		if (ret < 0) {
> +			if (errno == EINTR)
> +				break;
> +			else
> +				igt_assert_f(0, "poll call failed");
> +		}
> +
> +		/* No data available yet, poll again, hopefully new data is round the corner */
> +		if (!relay_poll_fd.revents)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		pull_data();
> +	} while (!stop_logging);
> +
> +	/* Pause logging on the GuC side*/
> +	guc_log_control(false);
> +	pthread_cond_signal(&underflow_cond);
> +	pthread_join(flush_thread, NULL);
> +	pull_leftover_data();
> +	igt_info("total bytes written %" PRIu64 "\n", total_bytes_written);
> +
> +	free(read_buffer);
> +	close(relay_fd);
> +	close(outfile_fd);
> +	igt_exit();
> +}
>

Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>

Regards,

Tvrtko


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