[PATCH v2 2/3] drm/doc: Add a section about "App information" for the wedge API

André Almeida andrealmeid at igalia.com
Sun May 11 22:47:44 UTC 2025


Add a section about "App information" for the wedge API.

Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid at igalia.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
index 69f72e71a96e..826abe265a24 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
@@ -446,6 +446,21 @@ telemetry information (devcoredump, syslog). This is useful because the first
 hang is usually the most critical one which can result in consequential hangs or
 complete wedging.
 
+App information
+---------------
+
+The information about which application (if any) caused the device to get in the
+wedge state is useful for userspace if they want to notify the user about what
+happened (e.g. the compositor display a message to the user "The <app name>
+caused a graphical error and the system recovered") or to implement policies
+(e.g. the daemon may "ban" an app that keeps resetting the device). If the app
+information is not available, the uevent will display as ``PID=-1`` and
+``APP=none``. Otherwise, ``PID`` and ``APP`` will advertise about the guilty
+app.
+
+The reliability of this information is driver and hardware specific, and should
+be taken with a caution regarding it's precision.
+
 Consumer prerequisites
 ----------------------
 
-- 
2.49.0



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