[Intel-xe] [PATCH 1/2] drm/xe: Add DRIVER_DATE to coredump error.

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 05:38:13PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 07:37:43PM +0000, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2023-07-26 at 19:29 +0000, Matthew Brost wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 03:25:19PM -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > This might be an useful debugging information if the driver
> > date is properly updated with a certain cadence. With this
> > we know from which point in time in our development the
> > driver was from.
> > 
> > 
> > Make sense to have this, wondering what the cadence should be...
> > 
> > before we are merged we should probably change the date along with our rebases.
> > 
> > after we are in tree probably after the latest pull request towards the next version.
> 
> 
> does it really make sense though? I think this exists only because of a
> pre-git era. What's the problem with using the git short hash that will
> automatically be updated and accurate?

well, we still have the drm->date to fill so we need to maintain it.

maybe we could do like nouveau?!

#ifdef GIT_REVISION
        .date = GIT_REVISION,
#else
        .date = DRIVER_DATE,
#endif

> 
> Lucas De Marchi
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Anyways:
> > Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com<mailto:matthew.brost at intel.com>>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com<mailto:rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> > index f53f4b51233a..79b506dc2622 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> > #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
> > 
> > #include "xe_device.h"
> > +#include "xe_drv.h"
> > #include "xe_engine.h"
> > #include "xe_force_wake.h"
> > #include "xe_gt.h"
> > @@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ static ssize_t xe_devcoredump_read(char *buffer, loff_t offset,
> >        drm_printf(&p, "**** Xe Device Coredump ****\n");
> >        drm_printf(&p, "kernel: " UTS_RELEASE "\n");
> >        drm_printf(&p, "module: " KBUILD_MODNAME "\n");
> > +       drm_printf(&p, "driver date: " DRIVER_DATE "\n");
> > 
> >        ts = ktime_to_timespec64(ss->snapshot_time);
> >        drm_printf(&p, "Snapshot time: %lld.%09ld\n", ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec);
> > --
> > 2.41.0
> > 
> >