drm/panfrost: Add fdinfo support GPU load metrics

The drm-stats fdinfo tags made available to user space are drm-engine,
drm-cycles, drm-max-freq and drm-curfreq, one per job slot.

This deviates from standard practice in other DRM drivers, where a single
set of key:value pairs is provided for the whole render engine. However,
Panfrost has separate queues for fragment and vertex/tiler jobs, so a
decision was made to calculate bus cycles and workload times separately.

Maximum operating frequency is calculated at devfreq initialisation time.
Current frequency is made available to user space because nvtop uses it
when performing engine usage calculations.

It is important to bear in mind that both GPU cycle and kernel time numbers
provided are at best rough estimations, and always reported in excess from
the actual figure because of two reasons:
 - Excess time because of the delay between the end of a job processing,
   the subsequent job IRQ and the actual time of the sample.
 - Time spent in the engine queue waiting for the GPU to pick up the next
   job.

To avoid race conditions during enablement/disabling, a reference counting
mechanism was introduced, and a job flag that tells us whether a given job
increased the refcount. This is necessary, because user space can toggle
cycle counting through a debugfs file, and a given job might have been in
flight by the time cycle counting was disabled.

The main goal of the debugfs cycle counter knob is letting tools like nvtop
or IGT's gputop switch it at any time, to avoid power waste in case no
engine usage measuring is necessary.

Also add a documentation file explaining the possible values for fdinfo's
engine keystrings and Panfrost-specific drm-curfreq-<keystr> pairs.

Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230929181616.2769345-3-adrian.larumbe@collabora.com

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.h
index 468c51e7e46d..876fdad9f721 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.h
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ int panfrost_gpu_soft_reset(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
 void panfrost_gpu_power_on(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
 void panfrost_gpu_power_off(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
 
+void panfrost_cycle_counter_get(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
+void panfrost_cycle_counter_put(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
+unsigned long long panfrost_cycle_counter_read(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
+
 void panfrost_gpu_amlogic_quirk(struct panfrost_device *pfdev);
 
 #endif