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    panfrost: Add pandecode (command stream debugger) · f6117820
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    The `panwrap` utility can be LD_PRELOAD'd into a GLES app, intercepting
    communication between the driver and the kernel. Modern panwrap versions
    do no processing of their own; instead, they create a trace directory.
    This directory contains the following files:
    
     - control.log: a line-by-line plain text file, denoting important
       syscalls (mmaps and job submits) along with their arguments
    
     - memory_*.bin, shader_*.bin: binary dumps of mapped memory
    
    Together, these files contain enough information to reconstruct the
    command stream and shaders of (at minimum) a single frame.
    
    The `pandecode` utility takes this directory structure as input,
    reconstructing the mapped memory and using the job submit command as an
    entrypoint. It then walks the descriptors as the hardware would, parsing
    and pretty-printing. Its final output is the pretty-printed command
    stream interleaved with the disassembled shaders, suitable for driver
    debugging. For instance, the behaviour of two driver versions (one
    working, one broken) can be compared by diff'ing their decoded logs.
    
    pandecode/decode.c was originally a part of `panwrap`; it is the oldest
    living code in the project. Its history is generally not worth
    preserving.
    
    panwrap itself will continue to live downstream for the foreseeable
    future, as it is specifically written for the vendor kernel. It is
    possible, however, to produce equivalent traces directly from Panfrost,
    bypassing the intermediate wrapping layer for well-behaved drivers.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
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