Re: [PATCH 1/2] habanalabs: add new IOCTL for debug, tracing and profiling

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 02 2019 - 08:01:45 EST


On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 02:35:38PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> From: Omer Shpigelman <oshpigelman@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Habanalabs ASICs use the ARM coresight infrastructure to support debug,
> tracing and profiling of neural networks topologies.
>
> Because the coresight is configured using register writes and reads, and
> some of the registers hold sensitive information (e.g. the address in
> the device's DRAM where the trace data is written to), the user must go
> through the kernel driver to configure this mechanism.
>
> This patch implements the common code of the IOCTL and calls the
> ASIC-specific function for the actual H/W configuration.
>
> The IOCTL supports configuration of seven coresight components:
> ETR, ETF, STM, FUNNEL, BMON, SPMU and TIMESTAMP
>
> The user specifies which component he wishes to configure and provides a
> pointer to a structure (located in its process space) that contains the
> relevant configuration.
>
> The common code copies the relevant data from the user-space to kernel
> space and then calls the ASIC-specific function to do the H/W
> configuration.
>
> After the configuration is done, which is usually composed
> of several IOCTL calls depending on what the user wanted to trace, the
> user can start executing the topology. The trace data will be written to
> the user's area in the device's DRAM.
>
> After the tracing operation is complete, and user will call the IOCTL
> again to disable the tracing operation. The user also need to read
> values from registers for some of the components (e.g. the size of the
> trace data in the device's DRAM). In that case, the user will provide a
> pointer to an "output" structure in user-space, which the IOCTL code will
> fill according the to selected component.
>
> Signed-off-by: Omer Shpigelman <oshpigelman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c | 2 +-
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/Makefile | 3 +-
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya.c | 1 +
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goyaP.h | 1 +
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya_coresight.c | 13 ++
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs.h | 25 ++++
> drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs_ioctl.c | 123 +++++++++++++++++-
> include/uapi/misc/habanalabs.h | 116 ++++++++++++++++-
> 8 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/goya/goya_coresight.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c
> index e3797f582436..6cbfd560721e 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/device.c
> @@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ void hl_device_fini(struct hl_device *hdev)
> WARN(1, "Failed to remove device because reset function did not finish\n");
> return;
> }
> - };
> + }
>
> /* Mark device as disabled */
> hdev->disabled = true;

This change isn't part of this new feature :(