[PATCH v2 16/17] drm/panthor: Add a debugfs knob to simulate unplug failures
From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 06:20:42 EST
Unplug failures are almost impossible to reproduce in practice, so let's
add a debugfs knob to simulate those.
With this new knob, we can check this error case with the following
sequence:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/dri/128/fake_unplug_failure
# <start-some-GPU-workload>
# echo fb000000.gpu > /sys/module/panthor/drivers/platform\:panthor/unbind
# <stop-the-GPU-workload>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
index d037c89e6198..012edf5d590c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
/* Copyright 2023 Collabora ltd. */
/* Copyright 2025 ARM Limited. All rights reserved. */
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ static int panthor_device_stop_before_unplug(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
* procedure.
*/
ret = panthor_hw_soft_reset(ptdev);
+ if (!ret && ptdev->unplug.fake_failure)
+ ret = -EIO;
clk_disable_unprepare(ptdev->clks.core);
return ret;
@@ -676,8 +679,33 @@ int panthor_device_suspend(struct device *dev)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+static int panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_get(void *data, u64 *val)
+{
+ struct panthor_device *ptdev = data;
+
+ *val = ptdev->unplug.fake_failure ? 1 : 0;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_set(void *data, u64 val)
+{
+ struct panthor_device *ptdev = data;
+
+ ptdev->unplug.fake_failure = val ? true : false;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_fops,
+ panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_get,
+ panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_set, "%llu\n");
+
void panthor_device_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
{
+ struct panthor_device *ptdev = container_of(minor->dev, struct panthor_device, base);
+
+ debugfs_create_file("fake_unplug_failure", 0644,
+ minor->debugfs_root, ptdev,
+ &panthor_device_fake_unplug_failure_fops);
panthor_mmu_debugfs_init(minor);
panthor_gem_debugfs_init(minor);
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
index 8c9177cf5da2..b2788373bfa9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_device.h
@@ -282,6 +282,14 @@ struct panthor_device {
* any BO attached to an active VM, ...).
*/
bool leak_active_resources;
+
+ /**
+ * @fake_failure: When true, pretend the SOFT_RESET in the unplug path failed.
+ *
+ * This is important to check that we're doing the right thing in this very
+ * unlikely case.
+ */
+ bool fake_failure;
} unplug;
/** @reset: Reset related fields. */
--
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