pps: Intel documentation

Add documentation for the Intel Perfetto datasource.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Caggiano <antonio.caggiano@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/10216>
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Antonio Caggiano 2021-05-06 13:27:42 +02:00 committed by Marge Bot
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@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ The exact supported features vary per driver:
* - Turnip
- ``gpu.counters.msm``
-
* - Intel
- ``gpu.counters.i915``
-
Run
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@ -88,7 +91,26 @@ performance counters, so you can simply run it with sudo:
.. code-block:: console
sudo ./build/pps-producer
sudo ./build/src/tool/pps/pps-producer
Intel
^^^^^
The Intel PPS driver needs root access to read system-wide
`RenderBasic <https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documentation/vtune-help/top/reference/gpu-metrics-reference.html>`__
performance counters, so you can simply run it with sudo:
.. code-block:: console
sudo ./build/src/tool/pps/pps-producer
Another option to enable access wide data without root permissions would be running the following:
.. code-block:: console
sudo sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
Alternatively using the ``CAP_PERFMON`` permission on the binary should work too.
Troubleshooting
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