[Intel-xe] [PATCH 17/17] drm/xe/oa: Remove filtering reports on context id

[Dixit, Ashutosh]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:23:48 -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
>

Hi Umesh,

> At present XE OA code does not obtain context id's from GuC. Even if these
> context id's were available it is not clear if included reports for
> userspace should be filtered on context id's. Till these issues are
> resolved remove filtering reports based on context id's.

Need more clarity on what we are doing here and why.

> @@ -419,21 +409,10 @@ static int xe_oa_append_reports(struct xe_oa_stream *stream, char __user *buf,
>		 * since it's not-uncommon for periodic samples to identify a switch
>		 * before any 'context switch' report.
>		 */
> -		if (!stream->exec_q || stream->specific_ctx_id == ctx_id ||
> -		    stream->oa_buffer.last_ctx_id == stream->specific_ctx_id ||
> -		    reason & OAREPORT_REASON_CTX_SWITCH) {
> -			/*
> -			 * While filtering for a single context we avoid
> -			 * leaking the IDs of other contexts.
> -			 */
> -			if (stream->exec_q && stream->specific_ctx_id != ctx_id)
> -				oa_context_id_squash(stream, report32);
> -
> +		if (!stream->exec_q || reason & OAREPORT_REASON_CTX_SWITCH) {

Also, could you take a look at this? I wasn't sure, should we do this, or
should we call xe_oa_append_sample() below unconditionally if we are
removing context filtering.

>			ret = xe_oa_append_sample(stream, buf, count, offset, report);
>			if (ret)
>				break;
> -
> -			stream->oa_buffer.last_ctx_id = ctx_id;
>		}

Thanks.
--
Ashutosh