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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:50:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] gpu: nova-core: expose the logging buffers via
 debugfs
To: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
 Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>, mmaurer@google.com,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
 Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
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References: <20260310220000.1897166-1-ttabi@nvidia.com>
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On 3/10/26 2:59 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> GSP-RM writes its printf message to "logging buffers", which are blocks
> memory allocated by the driver.  The messages are encoded, so exposing
> the buffers as debugfs entries allows the buffers to be extracted and
> decoded by a special application.
Hi Timur,

I've booted this up on Ampere, and my scripts are still able to
extract the logs and decode them, so everything is still working
nicely.

For the series, please feel free to add:

Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard