Module: Mesa Branch: master Commit: e9cf458fa8c60878a17bee6a0f0b5b11f88272a4 URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e9cf458fa8c60878a17bee6a0f0b5b11f88272a4
Author: Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 11 15:47:55 2017 -0700 docs: Document shader capturing environment variables. Reviewed-by: Tapani Pälli <[email protected]> --- docs/envvars.html | 2 ++ docs/shading.html | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/envvars.html b/docs/envvars.html index 51c930f013..17d69dc4cd 100644 --- a/docs/envvars.html +++ b/docs/envvars.html @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ that variable is set), or else within .cache/mesa within the user's home directory. <li>MESA_GLSL - <a href="shading.html#envvars">shading language compiler options</a> <li>MESA_NO_MINMAX_CACHE - when set, the minmax index cache is globally disabled. +<li>MESA_SHADER_CAPTURE_PATH - see <a href="shading.html#capture">Capturing Shaders</a></li> +<li>MESA_SHADER_DUMP_PATH and MESA_SHADER_READ_PATH - see <a href="shading.html#replacement">Experimenting with Shader Replacements</a></li> </ul> diff --git a/docs/shading.html b/docs/shading.html index 8b4cfb36a1..a0bbe997c1 100644 --- a/docs/shading.html +++ b/docs/shading.html @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ execution. These are generally used for debugging. Example: export MESA_GLSL=dump,nopt </p> +<h3 id="replacement">Experimenting with Shader Replacements</h3> <p> Shaders can be dumped and replaced on runtime for debugging purposes. This feature is not currently supported by SCons build. @@ -79,6 +80,20 @@ not clobber the replacement shaders. Also, the filenames of the replacement shad should match the filenames of the corresponding dumped shaders. </p> +<h3 id="capture">Capturing Shaders</h3> + +<p> +Setting <b>MESA_SHADER_CAPTURE_PATH</b> to a directory will cause the compiler +to write <tt>.shader_test</tt> files for use with +<a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/shader-db";>shader-db</a>, a tool +which compiler developers can use to gather statistics about shaders +(instructions, cycles, memory accesses, and so on). +</p> +<p> +Notably, this captures linked GLSL shaders - with all stages together - +as well as ARB programs. +</p> + <h2 id="support">GLSL Version</h2> <p> _______________________________________________ mesa-commit mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-commit
