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authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>2010-02-25 18:52:15 +0000
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>2010-02-25 18:54:13 +0000
commitc33f64ff955134aef2fc10cee4d48c6da4858549 (patch)
tree28d646cba5211592f32b96ef68be5dcc856a6d1a /man
parent0e4e700c51fbed8f333f2642edadf1b46bf51cc5 (diff)
man: Add manpage for intel_error_decode
A rudimentary manpage based on intel_gpu_dump for the simple tool for the post-processing of i915_error_state, intel_error_decode.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/Makefile.am1
-rw-r--r--man/intel_error_decode.120
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 304c4804..9ab19f6b 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ dist_man1_MANS = \
intel_audio_dump.1 \
intel_bios_dumper.1 \
intel_bios_reader.1 \
+ intel_error_decode.1 \
intel_gpu_dump.1 \
intel_gpu_top.1 \
intel_gtt.1 \
diff --git a/man/intel_error_decode.1 b/man/intel_error_decode.1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db03bb6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/intel_error_decode.1
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
+.ds q \N'34'
+.TH intel_error_decode 1 "intel_error_decode 1.0"
+.SH NAME
+intel_error_decode \- Decodes an Intel GPU dump automatically captured by the kernel at the time of an error.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B intel_error_decode
+.B intel_error_decode [ filename ]
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B intel_error_decode
+is a tool that decodes the instructions and state of the GPU at the time of
+an error. It requires kernel 2.6.34 or newer, and either debugfs mounted on
+/sys/kernel/debug or /debug containing a current i915_error_state or you can
+pass a file containing a saved error.
+.SS Options
+.TP
+.B filename
+Decodes a previously saved error.