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| author | Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com> | 2026-09-04 15:07:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> | 2026-09-13 18:15:43 -0700 |
| commit | 7e61560628d17ea6b1d8ee370f6d42694cff8758 (patch) | |
| tree | e6080164b2f4c4c419894bdb3ce4d956ca9a98c5 /Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst | |
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objtool: Validate disassembler headers in libopcodes probegrafted
commit 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries")
tested for libopcodes availability by linking a test snippet with a forward
declaration of disassemble_init_for_target().
However, testing symbol linkage with an extern declaration only verifies
the presence of the library (.so/.a) and bypasses checking for development
headers (binutils-dev). On systems where libopcodes is present without
development headers installed, the probe succeeds, enabling BUILD_DISAS.
Subsequent compilation of objtool then fails:
fatal error: 'bfd.h' file not found
113 | #include <bfd.h>
Additionally, the probe invokes $(HOSTCC) without $(HOSTCFLAGS), ignoring
any sysroot or include flags specified for the host compiler.
Fix this by including <bfd.h> and <dis-asm.h> directly in the test snippet,
passing $(HOSTCFLAGS) so host compiler options are respected, and defining
PACKAGE="objtool" to satisfy the configuration check in <bfd.h>.
Fixes: 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries")
Fixes: 436326bc525d ("objtool: fix build failure due to missing libopcodes check")
Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-Next
Signed-off-by: Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904150710.2997558-1-umendez@google.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ac914d524 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/debugging.rst @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +=============== + GPU Debugging +=============== + +General Debugging Options +========================= + +The DebugFS section provides documentation on a number files to aid in debugging +issues on the GPU. + + +GPUVM Debugging +=============== + +To aid in debugging GPU virtual memory related problems, the driver supports a +number of options module parameters: + +`vm_fault_stop` - If non-0, halt the GPU memory controller on a GPU page fault. + +`vm_update_mode` - If non-0, use the CPU to update GPU page tables rather than +the GPU. + + +Decoding a GPUVM Page Fault +=========================== + +If you see a GPU page fault in the kernel log, you can decode it to figure +out what is going wrong in your application. A page fault in your kernel +log may look something like this: + +:: + + [gfxhub0] no-retry page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:3 pasid:32777, for process glxinfo pid 2424 thread glxinfo:cs0 pid 2425) + in page starting at address 0x0000800102800000 from IH client 0x1b (UTCL2) + VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00301030 + Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8) + MORE_FAULTS: 0x0 + WALKER_ERROR: 0x0 + PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3 + MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0 + RW: 0x0 + +First you have the memory hub, gfxhub and mmhub. gfxhub is the memory +hub used for graphics, compute, and sdma on some chips. mmhub is the +memory hub used for multi-media and sdma on some chips. + +Next you have the vmid and pasid. If the vmid is 0, this fault was likely +caused by the kernel driver or firmware. If the vmid is non-0, it is generally +a fault in a user application. The pasid is used to link a vmid to a system +process id. If the process is active when the fault happens, the process +information will be printed. + +The GPU virtual address that caused the fault comes next. + +The client ID indicates the GPU block that caused the fault. +Some common client IDs: + +- CB/DB: The color/depth backend of the graphics pipe +- CPF: Command Processor Frontend +- CPC: Command Processor Compute +- CPG: Command Processor Graphics +- TCP/SQC/SQG: Shaders +- SDMA: SDMA engines +- VCN: Video encode/decode engines +- JPEG: JPEG engines + +PERMISSION_FAULTS describe what faults were encountered: + +- bit 0: the PTE was not valid +- bit 1: the PTE read bit was not set +- bit 2: the PTE write bit was not set +- bit 3: the PTE execute bit was not set + +Finally, RW, indicates whether the access was a read (0) or a write (1). + +In the example above, a shader (cliend id = TCP) generated a read (RW = 0x0) to +an invalid page (PERMISSION_FAULTS = 0x3) at GPU virtual address +0x0000800102800000. The user can then inspect their shader code and resource +descriptor state to determine what caused the GPU page fault. + +UMR +=== + +`umr <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr>`_ is a general purpose +GPU debugging and diagnostics tool. Please see the umr +`documentation <https://umr.readthedocs.io/en/main/>`_ for more information +about its capabilities. + +Debugging backlight brightness +============================== +Default backlight brightness is intended to be set via the policy advertised +by the firmware. Firmware will often provide different defaults for AC or DC. +Furthermore, some userspace software will save backlight brightness during +the previous boot and attempt to restore it. + +Some firmware also has support for a feature called "Custom Backlight Curves" +where an input value for brightness is mapped along a linearly interpolated +curve of brightness values that better match display characteristics. + +In the event of problems happening with backlight, there is a trace event +that can be enabled at bootup to log every brightness change request. +This can help isolate where the problem is. To enable the trace event add +the following to the kernel command line: + + tp_printk trace_event=amdgpu_dm:amdgpu_dm_brightness:mod:amdgpu trace_buf_size=1M |
