[drm:amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Waiting for fences timed out or interrupted!

[Christian Pernegger]

Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 02:43 Uhr schrieb Liu, Zhan <Zhan.Liu at amd.com>:
> I've seen a few people reported this issue on Freedesktop/Bugzilla. For example:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111124.

Yes, there's also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109955.
To be honest, I couldn't say if my issue is the same as either of
these -- I wouldn't know where to begin to interpret these logs, or
even say whether they're essentially showing the same or something
completely different. From experience, blindly lobbing stuff together
because of the first error message that pops out is dangerous. That's
why I'm asking here.

> They all experienced this issue while playing games. The higher GPU clock is, the more frequent issue can be reproduced.

Shouldn't that mean that more demanding games crash more often?
Neither Ori nor CK2 are likely to tax a Radon VII, at least temps stay
down, and so do the fans. I remember a single crash from Overcooked
[Proton/DXVK], same; but none from Prey (2017) [Proton/DXVK] or Life
is Strange - Before the Storm [native Vulkan]. That said, I mostly
play games one after the other, just because something didn't crash
then, that doesn't mean it wouldn't now.

> Also, some Reddit users pointed out all these games are Vulkan based. It could be a Vulkan specific issue.

I'm running Ori using WINED3D (D3D-OpenGL), CK2 is native OpenGL
AFAIK, that hypothesis doesn't hold.

The various search results that look similar to the layman also offer
a plethora of workarounds, a lot of which look to be of the sacrifice
a chicken at full moon and dance around it counter-clockwise intoning
sea shanties at the top of your voice variety to that same layman.
Understandable, when you don't know if it helped or the bug just takes
particularly long to trigger. I'd still rather help identify & fix the
root cause.

Thank you for caring.

Cheers,
C.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of
> > Christian Pernegger
> > Sent: 2019/December/05, Thursday 6:15 PM
> > To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: [drm:amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail [amdgpu]] *ERROR*
> > Waiting for fences timed out or interrupted!
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > one of my computers has been crashing while gaming rather a lot lately, with
> > kernel messages pointing to amdgpu. First line see subject, rest in the
> > attached log.
> > SSH still works, attempts to shutdown/reboot don't quite finish.
> >
> > Radeon VII in an Asus Pro WS X570-Ace. Ubuntu 18.04.3 HWE, mesa-aco.
> > This one was with kernel 5.3.0-24-generic [hwe-edge], mesa
> > 19.3.0+aco+git1575452833-3409c06e26d-1bionic1, vesa20_* from linux-
> > firmware-20191022, running Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition via
> > Proton/WINED3D11 under Steam Remote Play. I've had similar crashes
> > sporadically even with 5.0 [plain hwe] and linux-firmware completely stock,
> > and with native games (e.g. Crusader Kings II) running locally.
> > It used to be maybe once every other week, though, that was tolerable, now
> > Ori usually triggers it in under an hour. Turning off ACO via
> > RADV_PERFTEST=llvm makes it worse (not bad enough to make it trigger
> > quickly and reliably. though), going back to kernel 5.0 helps (as in an hour or
> > two might go by without a crash, but the performance impact is severe).
> >
> > All very vague. Which is why this isn't pretending to be a bug report, just a
> > "has anyone seen this?" kind of shout-out. If it's worthy of following up, I'd
> > be happy to provide further info, just tell me what.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > C.