Debugging tools/approach for GPU hangs?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:10:45PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:23:01 -0700
> Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Why would we not want to pull these for karmic?  Is there a
> > significant risk of regressions with these patches?
> > 
> > If the only problem is that they don't always work, that's still
> > better than where we are now, surely.
> 
> FYI, Ben Gamari posted an updated version of the reset patchset.  It
> seems to work reliably now, so you might want to pick it up at some
> point.  It generates uevents when a reset happens, so you can further
> track GPU hangs and bugs.

I had a look at this recently and couldn't quite figure out how to match the
uevent.  The relevant code seems to be in
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c:i915_capture_error_state et al, but it's not
obvious how to match that kobject in a udev rule.  Can you give me a hint?

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 - mdz