drm/panfrost: Replace fdinfo's profiling debugfs knob with sysfs

Debugfs isn't always available in production builds that try to squeeze
every single byte out of the kernel image, but we still need a way to
toggle the timestamp and cycle counter registers so that jobs can be
profiled for fdinfo's drm engine and cycle calculations.

Drop the debugfs knob and replace it with a sysfs file that accomplishes
the same functionality, and document its ABI in a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240306015819.822128-2-adrian.larumbe@collabora.com

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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/panfrost.rst b/Documentation/gpu/panfrost.rst
index b80e41f4b2c5..51ba375fd80d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/panfrost.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/panfrost.rst
@@ -38,3 +38,12 @@ the currently possible format options:
 
 Possible `drm-engine-` key names are: `fragment`, and  `vertex-tiler`.
 `drm-curfreq-` values convey the current operating frequency for that engine.
+
+Users must bear in mind that engine and cycle sampling are disabled by default,
+because of power saving concerns. `fdinfo` users and benchmark applications which
+query the fdinfo file must make sure to toggle the job profiling status of the
+driver by writing into the appropriate sysfs node::
+
+    echo <N> > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/panfrost/[a-f0-9]*.gpu/profiling
+
+Where `N` is either `0` or `1`, depending on the desired enablement status.