[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/guc: Compact init params debug to a single line

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Jun 25 20:11:03 UTC 2019


Quoting Daniele Ceraolo Spurio (2019-06-25 21:06:10)
> 
> 
> On 6/25/19 11:47 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Do we even need to dump them? They are almost all static, with the
> > exception of debug level and ads address? Is it useful?
> 
> In my experience it can be useful when we get a bug report where guc 
> failed to load or when we're testing an interface change to double-check 
> that the parameters are set as expected. But I agree there is no need to 
> dump all the dwords we don't set. Maybe we can reduce GUC_CTL_MAX_DWORDS 
> to the number of used dwords, or add a new define set to that and use it 
> for buf size?

If you have used them, then by definition they are useful :)

If you know when you need the information, e.g. the init sequence
failed; then dump then?
-Chris


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