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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst index b46327356e80..fe35a291ff3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ File format specification - All keys shall be prefixed with `drm-`. - Whitespace between the delimiter and first non-whitespace character shall be ignored when parsing. -- Neither keys or values are allowed to contain whitespace characters. +- Keys are not allowed to contain whitespace characters. - Numerical key value pairs can end with optional unit string. - Data type of the value is fixed as defined in the specification. @@ -39,12 +39,13 @@ Data types ---------- - <uint> - Unsigned integer without defining the maximum value. -- <str> - String excluding any above defined reserved characters or whitespace. +- <keystr> - String excluding any above defined reserved characters or whitespace. +- <valstr> - String. Mandatory fully standardised keys --------------------------------- -- drm-driver: <str> +- drm-driver: <valstr> String shall contain the name this driver registered as via the respective `struct drm_driver` data structure. @@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ String shall contain the name this driver registered as via the respective Optional fully standardised keys -------------------------------- +Identification +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + - drm-pdev: <aaaa:bb.cc.d> For PCI devices this should contain the PCI slot address of the device in @@ -69,10 +73,13 @@ scope of each device, in which case `drm-pdev` shall be present as well. Userspace should make sure to not double account any usage statistics by using the above described criteria in order to associate data to individual clients. -- drm-engine-<str>: <uint> ns +Utilization +^^^^^^^^^^^ + +- drm-engine-<keystr>: <uint> ns GPUs usually contain multiple execution engines. Each shall be given a stable -and unique name (str), with possible values documented in the driver specific +and unique name (keystr), with possible values documented in the driver specific documentation. Value shall be in specified time units which the respective GPU engine spent @@ -84,31 +91,19 @@ larger value within a reasonable period. Upon observing a value lower than what was previously read, userspace is expected to stay with that larger previous value until a monotonic update is seen. -- drm-engine-capacity-<str>: <uint> +- drm-engine-capacity-<keystr>: <uint> Engine identifier string must be the same as the one specified in the -drm-engine-<str> tag and shall contain a greater than zero number in case the +drm-engine-<keystr> tag and shall contain a greater than zero number in case the exported engine corresponds to a group of identical hardware engines. In the absence of this tag parser shall assume capacity of one. Zero capacity is not allowed. -- drm-memory-<str>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] - -Each possible memory type which can be used to store buffer objects by the -GPU in question shall be given a stable and unique name to be returned as the -string here. - -Value shall reflect the amount of storage currently consumed by the buffer -object belong to this client, in the respective memory region. - -Default unit shall be bytes with optional unit specifiers of 'KiB' or 'MiB' -indicating kibi- or mebi-bytes. - -- drm-cycles-<str> <uint> +- drm-cycles-<keystr>: <uint> Engine identifier string must be the same as the one specified in the -drm-engine-<str> tag and shall contain the number of busy cycles for the given +drm-engine-<keystr> tag and shall contain the number of busy cycles for the given engine. Values are not required to be constantly monotonic if it makes the driver @@ -117,16 +112,60 @@ larger value within a reasonable period. Upon observing a value lower than what was previously read, userspace is expected to stay with that larger previous value until a monotonic update is seen. -- drm-maxfreq-<str> <uint> [Hz|MHz|KHz] +- drm-maxfreq-<keystr>: <uint> [Hz|MHz|KHz] Engine identifier string must be the same as the one specified in the -drm-engine-<str> tag and shall contain the maximum frequency for the given -engine. Taken together with drm-cycles-<str>, this can be used to calculate -percentage utilization of the engine, whereas drm-engine-<str> only reflects +drm-engine-<keystr> tag and shall contain the maximum frequency for the given +engine. Taken together with drm-cycles-<keystr>, this can be used to calculate +percentage utilization of the engine, whereas drm-engine-<keystr> only reflects time active without considering what frequency the engine is operating as a percentage of it's maximum frequency. +Memory +^^^^^^ + +- drm-memory-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +Each possible memory type which can be used to store buffer objects by the +GPU in question shall be given a stable and unique name to be returned as the +string here. The name "memory" is reserved to refer to normal system memory. + +Value shall reflect the amount of storage currently consumed by the buffer +objects belong to this client, in the respective memory region. + +Default unit shall be bytes with optional unit specifiers of 'KiB' or 'MiB' +indicating kibi- or mebi-bytes. + +- drm-shared-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +The total size of buffers that are shared with another file (ie. have more +than a single handle). + +- drm-total-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +The total size of buffers that including shared and private memory. + +- drm-resident-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +The total size of buffers that are resident in the specified region. + +- drm-purgeable-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +The total size of buffers that are purgeable. + +- drm-active-<region>: <uint> [KiB|MiB] + +The total size of buffers that are active on one or more engines. + +Implementation Details +====================== + +Drivers should use drm_show_fdinfo() in their `struct file_operations`, and +implement &drm_driver.show_fdinfo if they wish to provide any stats which +are not provided by drm_show_fdinfo(). But even driver specific stats should +be documented above and where possible, aligned with other drivers. + Driver specific implementations -=============================== +------------------------------- :ref:`i915-usage-stats` |