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To allow requests to forgo a common execution timeline, one question we need to be able to answer is "is this request running?". To track whether a request has started on HW, we can emit a breadcrumb at the beginning of the request and check its timeline's HWSP to see if the breadcrumb has advanced past the start of this request. (This is in contrast to the global timeline where we need only ask if we are on the global timeline and if the timeline has advanced past the end of the previous request.) There is still confusion from a preempted request, which has already started but relinquished the HW to a high priority request. For the common case, this discrepancy should be negligible. However, for identification of hung requests, knowing which one was running at the time of the hang will be much more important. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190129185452.20989-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.