Re: [Intel-gfx] Workqueue - warning splat

[Chris Clayton]

On 28/08/2019 16:19, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Chris Clayton (2019-08-28 16:14:20)
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just copying 319G of data from a partition on one USB-attached (/dev/sdb3) to a partition on another USB-attached
>> drive (/dev/sdc1). It's not quite finished but as it's progressed, I have been reading email and browsing web sites, so
>> switching between windows from time to time.
>>
>> I found the splat below at the end the output from dmesg:
> 
>> [ 6048.070148] workqueue: PF_MEMALLOC task 148(kswapd0) is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:gen6_pm_rps_work [i915]
>> [ 6048.070152] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 148 at kernel/workqueue.c:2598 check_flush_dependency+0x105/0x120
>> [ 6048.070152] Modules linked in: uas rfcomm bnep iptable_filter xt_conntrack iptable_nat xt_MASQUERADE nf_nat
>> nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 coretemp hwmon snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_generic iwlmvm mac80211 uvcvideo
>> videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common snd_hda_intel iwlwifi usbhid snd_hda_codec btusb
>> btintel snd_hwdep x86_pkg_temp_thermal snd_hda_core cfg80211 i915
>> [ 6048.070162] CPU: 6 PID: 148 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G     U            5.3.0-rc6+ #40
>> [ 6048.070163] Hardware name: PC Specialist LTD N8xxEZ                         /N8xxEZ                         , BIOS
>> 1.07.08 10/04/2018
>> [ 6048.070165] RIP: 0010:check_flush_dependency+0x105/0x120
>> [ 6048.070166] Code: 8d 8a c0 05 00 00 49 89 e8 48 c7 c7 90 61 b5 b0 48 8d 8b b0 00 00 00 4c 89 ca 48 89 04 24 c6 05 02
>> 8f 00 01 01 e8 b2 97 fe ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 04 24 e9 63 ff ff ff 80 3d eb 8e 00 01 00 0f 85 56 ff
>> [ 6048.070167] RSP: 0018:ffffa6e4003679a0 EFLAGS: 00010086
>> [ 6048.070167] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8a188d414000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> [ 6048.070168] RDX: 0000000000000063 RSI: ffffffffb125f723 RDI: ffffffffb125d28c
>> [ 6048.070169] RBP: ffffffffc0466390 R08: 000005802d12a057 R09: 0000000000000063
>> [ 6048.070169] R10: ffffffffb125faa0 R11: 00000000b125f70b R12: ffff8a188c809a80
>> [ 6048.070170] R13: ffff8a1890a23e00 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
>> [ 6048.070170] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a1890b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [ 6048.070171] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [ 6048.070172] CR2: 00000000025d1fa0 CR3: 00000004d700a004 CR4: 00000000003606e0
>> [ 6048.070172] Call Trace:
>> [ 6048.070175]  __flush_work+0x8d/0x1d0
>> [ 6048.070176]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x1b9/0x3b0
>> [ 6048.070177]  __cancel_work_timer+0xfb/0x180
>> [ 6048.070179]  ? synchronize_irq+0x30/0xa0
>> [ 6048.070204]  ? fwtable_write32+0xf1/0x180 [i915]
>> [ 6048.070212]  gen6_disable_rps_interrupts+0x79/0xa0 [i915]
>> [ 6048.070220]  gen6_rps_idle+0xe/0xd0 [i915]
>> [ 6048.070230]  intel_gt_park+0x4f/0x60 [i915]
>> [ 6048.070239]  __intel_wakeref_put_last+0x12/0x40 [i915]
>> [ 6048.070248]  __engine_park+0xb7/0xc0 [i915]
>>
>> It might be difficult to create it again, but I guess a heads up might be useful.
> 
> Should be fixed by 
> 
> commit c7302f204490f3eb4ef839bec228315bcd3ba43f
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Aug 8 21:27:58 2019 +0100
> 
>     drm/i915: Defer final intel_wakeref_put to process context
> 
Thanks, Chris.

That patch doesn't apply cleanly to Linus' current tree, so I'll wait for it to make it's way through the process where
the problems will be resolved.

Chris

> -Chris
>