Re: [RESEND v2] tracing/gpu: Add imported size to gpu_mem_imported tracepoint

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 07 2021 - 13:52:47 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 01:49:23PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:36:03 -0700
> Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:02:29 +0000
> > > Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The existing gpu_mem_total tracepoint provides GPU drivers a uniform way
> > > > to report the per-process and system-wide GPU memory usage. This
> > > > tracepoint reports a single total of the GPU private allocations and the
> > > > imported memory. [1]
> > > >
> > > > To allow distinguishing GPU private vs imported memory, add an
> > > > imported_size field to the gpu_mem_total tracepoint. GPU drivers can use
> > > > this new field to report the per-process and global GPU-imported memory
> > > > in a uniform way.
> > > >
> > > > User space tools can detect and handle the old vs new gpu_mem_total
> > > > format via the gpu_mem/gpu_mem_total/format file.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200302234840.57188-1-zzyiwei@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > include/trace/events/gpu_mem.h | 17 +++++++++++------
> > > > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is that trace event that doesn't have any in tree callers, right? I
> > > thought there was going to be some soon.
> >
> > The trace event is currently used by the Android GPU drivers, and
> > there is some work ongoing to add this in drm core upstream but it's
> > not yet ready.
> >
> > >
> > > For the updates to the tracing side (besides not having any users), it
> > > looks trivial to me.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > But this needs to be pulled in by one of the GPU maintainers.
> >
> > Thanks for the review Steve. I'll resend adding the GPU maintainers.
>
> OK, so it was Greg that gave me the Ack to accept it.

Me? Hah, I'm not a gpu developer, they are the ones that need to ack
this thing...

greg k-h