mesa/src/gallium/tools/trace
Marek Olšák 8c9b9aac7d gallium: change comments to remove 'state tracker'
Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Acked-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@amd.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/4902>
2020-05-13 13:47:27 -04:00
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diff_state.py
dump.py
dump_state.py
format.py
model.py
parse.py
README.txt
TODO.txt
tracediff.sh

These directory contains tools for manipulating traces produced by the trace
pipe driver.


Most debug builds of gallium frontends already load the trace driver by default.
To produce a trace do

  export GALLIUM_TRACE=foo.gtrace

and run the application.  You can choose any name, but the .gtrace is
recommended to avoid confusion with the .trace produced by apitrace.


You can dump a trace by doing

  ./dump.py foo.gtrace | less


You can dump a JSON file describing the static state at any given draw call
(e.g., 12345) by
doing

  ./dump_state.py -v -c 12345 foo.gtrace > foo.json

or by specifying the n-th (e.g, 1st) draw call by doing

  ./dump_state.py -v -d 1 foo.gtrace > foo.json

The state is derived from the call sequence in the trace file, so no dynamic
(eg. rendered textures) is included.


You can compare two JSON files by doing

  ./diff_state.py foo.json boo.json | less

If you're investigating a regression in an gallium frontend, you can obtain a good
and bad trace, dump respective state in JSON, and then compare the states to
identify the problem.