[Intel-gfx] [RFC 10/11] drm/i915: Export engine stats API to other users

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 14/09/2017 21:26, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2017-09-11 16:25:58)
>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>
>> Other kernel users might want to look at total GPU busyness
>> in order to implement things like package power distribution
>> algorithms more efficiently.
> 
> Who are we exporting these symbols to? Will you not need all the module
> ref handling and load ordering like around ips and audio?

Hm yes indeed, I forgot about that.

Perhaps Ben could comment on who is the user. If it is purely for 
internal explorations, I'll stick the patch at the end of the series as 
it is. If it has a more serious user I would need to implement a proper 
solution.

Regards,

Tvrtko