Re: ksys_sync_helper

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Aug 01 2023 - 08:34:35 EST


On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 04:07:18AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Wysocki, Rafael J wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll remember about this.
> >
> >
> > > With this
> > > and commit d5ea093eebf022e now we end up with a random driver (amdgpu)
> > > syncing all file systems for absolutely no good reason.
> >
> > Sorry about that.
> >
> > The problematic commit should still revert more or less cleanly, so please
> > do that if that's what you need.
>
> We'd still need to remove abuse in amdgpu first, though.

This would effectively revert d5ea093eebf0


diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
index dc0e5227119b..af04fece37d5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@
#include "amdgpu_fru_eeprom.h"
#include "amdgpu_reset.h"

-#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <drm/task_barrier.h>
#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>

@@ -5225,17 +5224,6 @@ int amdgpu_device_gpu_recover(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
*/
need_emergency_restart = amdgpu_ras_need_emergency_restart(adev);

- /*
- * Flush RAM to disk so that after reboot
- * the user can read log and see why the system rebooted.
- */
- if (need_emergency_restart && amdgpu_ras_get_context(adev)->reboot) {
- DRM_WARN("Emergency reboot.");
-
- ksys_sync_helper();
- emergency_restart();
- }
-
dev_info(adev->dev, "GPU %s begin!\n",
need_emergency_restart ? "jobs stop":"reset");