Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/i915/gt: Serialize GRDOM access between multiple engine resets

From: Tvrtko Ursulin
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 11:49:38 EST



Hi,

On 27/06/2022 10:00, Mauro Carvalho Chehab (by way of Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mauro.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:
Hi Tvrtko,

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:34:21 +0100
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 23/06/2022 12:17, Andi Shyti wrote:
Hi Mauro,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
From: Chris Wilson <chris.p.wilson@xxxxxxxxx>

Don't allow two engines to be reset in parallel, as they would both
try to select a reset bit (and send requests to common registers)
and wait on that register, at the same time. Serialize control of
the reset requests/acks using the uncore->lock, which will also ensure
that no other GT state changes at the same time as the actual reset.

Fixes: 7938d61591d3 ("drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store")

Reported-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Notice I had a bunch of questions and asks in this series so please do
not merge until those are addressed.

In this particular patch (and some others) for instance Fixes: tag, at
least against that sha, shouldn't be there.

Hmm... I sent an answer to your points, but I can't see it at:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/160e613f-a0a8-18ff-5d4b-249d4280caa8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Maybe it got lost somewhere, I dunno.

Yeah, no replies received on my end I'm afraid.


Yeah, indeed the fixes tag on patch 5/6 should be removed as this is not
directly related to changeset 7938d61591d3. Yet, this one is required for
patch 6 to work.

The other patches on this series, though, are modifying the code
introduced by changeset 7938d61591d3.

Modifying the code does not strictly means something is a fix for a certain patch.

Patch 2 is clearly a workaround needed for TLB cache invalidation to
work on some GPUs. So, while not related to Broadwell, they're also
fixing some TLB cache issues. So, IMO, it should keep the fixes.

Umesh commented that patch 2 is not needed - who is right then? :)

I tried to port just the two serialize patches to drm-tip, in order
to solve the issues on Broadwell, but it didn't work, as the logic
inside the spinlock could be calling schedule() with a spinlock hold:
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227813] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_uncore.c:2496
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227816] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 37, name: kworker/u8:1
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227818] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227819] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227820] 5 locks held by kworker/u8:1/37:
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227822] #0: ffff88811159b538 ((wq_completion)i915){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1e0/0x580
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227831] #1: ffffc90000183e60 ((work_completion)(&(&i915->mm.free_work)->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1e0/0x580
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.227837] #2: ffff88811b34c5e8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __i915_gem_free_objects+0xba/0x210 [i915]
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.228283] #3: ffff88810a66c2d8 (&gt->tlb_invalidate_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: intel_gt_invalidate_tlbs+0xe7/0x4d0 [i915]
Jun 14 17:38:48 silver kernel: [ 23.228663] #4: ffff88810a668f28 (&uncore->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: intel_gt_invalidate_tlbs+0x115/0x4d0 [i915]

I didn't investigate the root cause, but it seems related to PM, so
patches 1 and 3 seem to be required for the serialization logic
to actually work.

Yes that is clear, what is needed is the split of the for_each_engine loop into request and wait.

But question is how much backporting trouble will the _extra_ changes patch 1 brings create.

In the ideal world patch 1 wouldn't be an optimising one, I mean adding skipping of TLB invalidations on idle engines but just the loop split. That would make it smaller and more suitable for Cc: stable. Because both i915_gem_pages.c and intel_gt_pm.h hunks wouldn't even be there. And the refactor in intel_gt_invalidate_tlbs would be smaller since it wouldn't be adding the engine awake checks...

So, I would keep the Fixes: tag mentioning changeset 7938d61591d3
on patches: 1, 2, 3 and 6.

... which for me means a different patch 1, followed by patch 6 (moved to be patch 2) would be ideal stable material.

Then we have the current patch 2 which is open/unknown (to me at least).

And the rest seem like optimisations which shouldn't be tagged as fixes.

Apart from patch 5 which should be cc: stable, but no fixes as agreed.

Could you please double check if what I am suggesting here is feasible to implement and if it is just send those minimal patches out alone?

Maybe it even makes sense to squash such 1&2 into a single patch.

Again, since the original TLB flush was backported quite far back into long term stable releases I think it would be much easier to really have a minimal patch/series to fix Broadwell in those kernels.

Regards,

Tvrtko


Yet, IMO the entire series should be merged on -stable.

If that's OK for you and there's no additional issues to be
addressed, I'll submit a v2 of this series removing the Fixes tag
from patches 4 and 5.

Regards,
Mauro