Userspace applications such as PowerTOP are interesting in being able to
read the current GPU frequency. The patch itself sets up a generic array
for gen6 attributes so we can easily add other items in the future (and
it also happens to be just about the cleanest way to do this).
The patch is a nice addition to
commit 1ac02185dff3afac146d745ba220dc6672d1d162
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Thu Aug 30 13:26:48 2012 +0200
drm/i915: add a tracepoint for gpu frequency changes
Reading the GPU frequncy can be done by reading a file like:
/sys/class/drm/card0/render_frequency_mhz
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see: *
* http://dri.freedesktop.org/ *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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