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author | André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> | 2022-08-11 02:28:57 +0300 |
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committer | Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> | 2022-08-17 01:17:32 +0300 |
commit | e76115963be1700400405d300150eccf0e31cad0 (patch) | |
tree | a4af7bd32828e7ca29b101baba9ad7915eb885c7 /Documentation/gpu | |
parent | 1ed5a845c7c87aa79cef2f96e4165c8fad38837f (diff) | |
download | linux-e76115963be1700400405d300150eccf0e31cad0.tar.xz |
Documentation/gpu: Document GFXOFF's count and residency
Add documentation explaining those two new files.
While here, add a note about the value type.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/thermal.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/thermal.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/thermal.rst index 997231b6adcf..5e27e4eb3959 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/thermal.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/thermal.rst @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ card's RLC (RunList Controller) firmware powers off the gfx engine dynamically when there is no workload on gfx or compute pipes. GFXOFF is on by default on supported GPUs. -Userspace can interact with GFXOFF through a debugfs interface: +Userspace can interact with GFXOFF through a debugfs interface (all values in +`uint32_t`, unless otherwise noted): ``amdgpu_gfxoff`` ----------------- @@ -104,3 +105,18 @@ Read it to check current GFXOFF's status of a GPU:: If GFXOFF is enabled, the value will be transitioning around [0, 3], always getting into 0 when possible. When it's disabled, it's always at 2. Returns ``-EINVAL`` if it's not supported. + +``amdgpu_gfxoff_count`` +----------------------- + +Read it to get the total GFXOFF entry count at the time of query since system +power-up. The value is an `uint64_t` type, however, due to firmware limitations, +it can currently overflow as an `uint32_t`. *Only supported in vangogh* + +``amdgpu_gfxoff_residency`` +--------------------------- + +Write 1 to amdgpu_gfxoff_residency to start logging, and 0 to stop. Read it to +get average GFXOFF residency % multiplied by 100 during the last logging +interval. E.g. a value of 7854 means 78.54% of the time in the last logging +interval the GPU was in GFXOFF mode. *Only supported in vangogh* |