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authorAndré Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>2025-06-17 09:49:47 -0300
committerAndré Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>2025-06-17 11:32:47 -0300
commitcd37124b40934377d7ccdcc1bb22c8a880b516db (patch)
tree7fc8141d12893af7b5baad6f88d4347e1b10b946
parent183bccafa176f4519a15ec5c35a47495cbea658c (diff)
drm/doc: Add a section about "Task information" for the wedge API
Add a section about "Task information" for the wedge API. Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250617124949.2151549-5-andrealmeid@igalia.com Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
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@@ -446,6 +446,23 @@ telemetry information (devcoredump, syslog). This is useful because the first
hang is usually the most critical one which can result in consequential hangs or
complete wedging.
+Task information
+---------------
+
+The information about which application (if any) was involved in the device
+wedging is useful for userspace if they want to notify the user about what
+happened (e.g. the compositor display a message to the user "The <task name>
+caused a graphical error and the system recovered") or to implement policies
+(e.g. the daemon may "ban" an task that keeps resetting the device). If the task
+information is available, the uevent will display as ``PID=<pid>`` and
+``TASK=<task name>``. Otherwise, ``PID`` and ``TASK`` will not appear in the
+event string.
+
+The reliability of this information is driver and hardware specific, and should
+be taken with a caution regarding it's precision. To have a big picture of what
+really happened, the devcoredump file provides should have much more detailed
+information about the device state and about the event.
+
Consumer prerequisites
----------------------