Re: [Freedreno] [PATCH] drm/msm/dp: Only create debugfs for PRIMARY minor

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Sat Oct 16 2021 - 00:29:58 EST


On Fri 15 Oct 18:44 CDT 2021, abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On 2021-10-15 16:13, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > dpu_kms_debugfs_init() and hence dp_debug_get() gets invoked for each
> > minor being registered. But dp_debug_get() will allocate a new struct
> > dp_debug for each call and this will be associated as dp->debug.
> >
> > As such dp_debug will create debugfs files in both the PRIMARY and the
> > RENDER minor's debugfs directory, but only the last reference will be
> > remembered.
> >
> > The only use of this reference today is in the cleanup path in
> > dp_display_deinit_sub_modules() and the dp_debug_private object does
> > outlive the debugfs entries in either case, so there doesn't seem to be
> > any adverse effects of this, but per the code the current behavior is
> > unexpected, so change it to only create dp_debug for the PRIMARY minor.
> >
>
> If i understand correctly, today because of this, we get redundant debugfs
> nodes right?
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/dri/<minor_x>/dp_debug
> /sys/kernel/debug/dri/<minor_y>/dp_debug
>
> Both of these will hold the same information as they are for the same DP
> controller right?

That's correct, all the dp_debug debugfs files end up in both minors.

The problem is that dp->debug points to the dp_debug struct for one of
them, which afaict doesn't have any really bad effects today - unless
you try to clean up the dp_debug state, but that will clear out the
entire dri/<minor_y>...

> In that case, this is true even for the other DPU kms information too.
>
> Why not move this check one level up to dpu_kms_debugfs_init?
>

I was expecting that perhaps some of this information was
minor-specific, but if that isn't the case it sounds reasonable that we
should push this one step up.

Regards,
Bjorn

> > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c
> > index 3aa67c53dbc0..06773b58bb60 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> > #include <linux/component.h>
> > #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> > #include <linux/delay.h>
> > +#include <drm/drm_file.h>
> > #include <drm/drm_panel.h>
> >
> > #include "msm_drv.h"
> > @@ -1463,6 +1464,10 @@ void msm_dp_debugfs_init(struct msm_dp
> > *dp_display, struct drm_minor *minor)
> > dp = container_of(dp_display, struct dp_display_private, dp_display);
> > dev = &dp->pdev->dev;
> >
> > + /* Only create one set of debugfs per DP instance */
> > + if (minor->type != DRM_MINOR_PRIMARY)
> > + return;
> > +
> > dp->debug = dp_debug_get(dev, dp->panel, dp->usbpd,
> > dp->link, dp->dp_display.connector,
> > minor);