Re: [PATCH RFC 11/18] drm/scheduler: Clean up jobs when the scheduler is torn down

[Maarten Lankhorst]

On 2023-03-07 15:25, Asahi Lina wrote:
> drm_sched_fini() currently leaves any pending jobs dangling, which
> causes segfaults and other badness when job completion fences are
> signaled after the scheduler is torn down.
>
> Explicitly detach all jobs from their completion callbacks and free
> them. This makes it possible to write a sensible safe abstraction for
> drm_sched, without having to externally duplicate the tracking of
> in-flight jobs.
>
> This shouldn't regress any existing drivers, since calling
> drm_sched_fini() with any pending jobs is broken and this change should
> be a no-op if there are no pending jobs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <lina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> index 5c0add2c7546..0aab1e0aebdd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> @@ -1119,10 +1119,33 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_init);
>   void drm_sched_fini(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>   {
>   	struct drm_sched_entity *s_entity;
> +	struct drm_sched_job *s_job, *tmp;
>   	int i;
>   
> -	if (sched->thread)
> -		kthread_stop(sched->thread);
> +	if (!sched->thread)
> +		return;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Stop the scheduler, detaching all jobs from their hardware callbacks
> +	 * and cleaning up complete jobs.
> +	 */
> +	drm_sched_stop(sched, NULL);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Iterate through the pending job list and free all jobs.
> +	 * This assumes the driver has either guaranteed jobs are already stopped, or that
> +	 * otherwise it is responsible for keeping any necessary data structures for
> +	 * in-progress jobs alive even when the free_job() callback is called early (e.g. by
> +	 * putting them in its own queue or doing its own refcounting).
> +	 */
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(s_job, tmp, &sched->pending_list, list) {
> +		spin_lock(&sched->job_list_lock);
> +		list_del_init(&s_job->list);
> +		spin_unlock(&sched->job_list_lock);
> +		sched->ops->free_job(s_job);
> +	}

I would stop the kthread first, then delete all jobs without spinlock 
since nothing else can race against sched_fini?

If you do need the spinlock, It would need to guard list_for_each_entry too.

> +
> +	kthread_stop(sched->thread);
>   
>   	for (i = DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_COUNT - 1; i >= DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_MIN; i--) {
>   		struct drm_sched_rq *rq = &sched->sched_rq[i];