[PATCH v6 2/9] drm/xe: Add ASCII85 dump helper function
Matthew Brost
matthew.brost at intel.com
Fri Aug 30 21:56:27 UTC 2024
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 11:23:03PM -0700, John.C.Harrison at Intel.com wrote:
> From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
>
> There is a need to include the GuC log and other large binary objects
> in core dumps and via dmesg. So add a helper for dumping to a printer
> function via conversion to ASCII85 encoding.
>
> Another issue with dumping such a large buffer is that it can be slow,
> especially if dumping to dmesg over a serial port. So add a yield to
> prevent the 'task has been stuck for 120s' kernel hang check feature
> from firing.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h | 5 ++
> 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> index bdb76e834e4c..eec7b89ab48b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> #include "xe_devcoredump.h"
> #include "xe_devcoredump_types.h"
>
> +#include <linux/ascii85.h>
> #include <linux/devcoredump.h>
> #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
>
> @@ -310,3 +311,78 @@ int xe_devcoredump_init(struct xe_device *xe)
> }
>
> #endif
> +
> +/**
> + * xe_print_blob_ascii85 - print a BLOB to some useful location in ASCII85
> + *
> + * The output is split to multiple lines because some print targets, e.g. dmesg
> + * cannot handle arbitrarily long lines. Note also that printing to dmesg in
> + * piece-meal fashion is not possible, each separate call to drm_puts() has a
> + * line-feed automatically added! Therefore, the entire output line must be
> + * constructed in a local buffer first, then printed in one atomic output call.
> + *
> + * There is also a scheduler yield call to prevent the 'task has been stuck for
> + * 120s' kernel hang check feature from firing when printing to a slow target
> + * such as dmesg over a serial port.
> + *
> + * TODO: Add compression prior to the ASCII85 encoding to shrink huge buffers down.
> + *
> + * @p: the printer object to output to
> + * @blob: the Binary Large OBject to dump out
> + * @offset: offset in bytes to skip from the front of the BLOB, must be a multiple of sizeof(u32)
> + * @size: the size in bytes of the BLOB, must be a multiple of sizeof(u32)
> + */
> +void xe_print_blob_ascii85(struct drm_printer *p, const void *blob, size_t offset, size_t size)
> +{
> + const u32 *blob32 = (const u32 *)blob;
> + char buff[ASCII85_BUFSZ], *line_buff;
> + size_t line_pos = 0;
> +
> +#define DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN 800
> +#define MIN_SPACE (ASCII85_BUFSZ + 2) /* 85 + "\n\0" */
> +
> + if (size & 3)
> + drm_printf(p, "Size not word aligned: %zu", size);
> + if (offset & 3)
> + drm_printf(p, "Offset not word aligned: %zu", size);
> +
> + line_buff = kzalloc(sizeof(DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (IS_ERR(line_buff)) {
> + drm_printf(p, "Failed to allocate line buffer: %pe", line_buff);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + blob32 += offset / sizeof(*blob32);
> + size /= sizeof(*blob32);
> +
> + while (size--) {
> + u32 val = *(blob32++);
> +
> + strscpy(line_buff + line_pos, ascii85_encode(val, buff),
> + DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN - line_pos);
> + line_pos += strlen(line_buff + line_pos);
> +
> + if ((line_pos + MIN_SPACE) >= DMESG_MAX_LINE_LEN) {
> + line_buff[line_pos++] = '\n';
> + line_buff[line_pos++] = 0;
> +
> + drm_puts(p, line_buff);
> +
> + line_pos = 0;
> +
> + /* Prevent 'stuck thread' time out errors */
> + cond_resched();
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (line_pos) {
> + line_buff[line_pos++] = '\n';
> + line_buff[line_pos++] = 0;
> +
> + drm_puts(p, line_buff);
> + }
> +
> + kfree(line_buff);
Dive by comment kvfree per CI. Will try to plan sometime soon to give
this series a thorough look as it has been around and definitely is
something we need.
Matt
> +
> +#undef MIN_SPACE
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> index e2fa65ce0932..3f82188590ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.h
> @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
> #ifndef _XE_DEVCOREDUMP_H_
> #define _XE_DEVCOREDUMP_H_
>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +struct drm_printer;
> struct xe_device;
> struct xe_sched_job;
>
> @@ -23,4 +26,6 @@ static inline int xe_devcoredump_init(struct xe_device *xe)
> }
> #endif
>
> +void xe_print_blob_ascii85(struct drm_printer *p, const void *blob, size_t offset, size_t size);
> +
> #endif
> --
> 2.46.0
>
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