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Eric Anholt f30994622b drm/vc4: Add an ioctl for labeling GEM BOs for summary stats
This has proven immensely useful for debugging memory leaks and
overallocation (which is a rather serious concern on the platform,
given that we typically run at about 256MB of CMA out of up to 1GB
total memory, with framebuffers that are about 8MB ecah).

The state of the art without this is to dump debug logs from every GL
application, guess as to kernel allocations based on bo_stats, and try
to merge that all together into a global picture of memory allocation
state.  With this, you can add a couple of calls to the debug build of
the 3D driver and get a pretty detailed view of GPU memory usage from
/debug/dri/0/bo_stats (or when we debug print to dmesg on allocation
failure).

The Mesa side currently labels at the gallium resource level (so you
see that a 1920x20 pixmap has been created, presumably for the window
system panel), but we could extend that to be even more useful with
glObjectLabel() names being sent all the way down to the kernel.

(partial) example of sorted debugfs output with Mesa labeling all
resources:

               kernel BO cache:  16392kb BOs (3)
       tiling shadow 1920x1080:   8160kb BOs (1)
       resource 1920x1080@32/0:   8160kb BOs (1)
scanout resource 1920x1080@32/0:   8100kb BOs (1)
                        kernel:   8100kb BOs (1)

v2: Use strndup_user(), use lockdep assertion instead of just a
    comment, fix an array[-1] reference, extend comment about name
    freeing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170725182718.31468-2-eric@anholt.net
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2017-07-28 16:04:53 -07:00
arch Linux 4.13-rc2 2017-07-27 08:15:43 +10:00
block bfq: dispatch request to prevent queue stalling after the request completion 2017-07-12 08:32:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-14 22:49:50 -07:00
Documentation Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-misc-next 2017-07-26 18:39:07 -04:00
drivers drm/vc4: Add an ioctl for labeling GEM BOs for summary stats 2017-07-28 16:04:53 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
include drm/vc4: Add an ioctl for labeling GEM BOs for summary stats 2017-07-28 16:04:53 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel Three minor updates 2017-07-21 13:59:51 -07:00
lib Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that 2017-07-15 12:44:02 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file 2017-07-23 16:06:21 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-14 12:44:00 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-21 11:12:48 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Second batch of KVM updates for v4.13 2017-07-15 10:18:16 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Linux 4.13-rc2 2017-07-27 08:15:43 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc2 2017-07-23 16:15:17 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.