Re: 回复: 回复: [RFC] a new approach to detect which ring is the real black sheep upon TDR reported

Andrey Grodzovsky andrey.grodzovsky at amd.com
Sun Feb 28 13:59:50 UTC 2021


On 2021-02-27 11:10 p.m., Liu, Monk wrote:
>
> [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
>
>
> >>So gfx job hangs because it has a dependency on buggy compute job 
> which already is hanging ?
>
> No, there is no dependency between this gfx job and that compute job 
> from a software perspective , but the CU is shared thus gfx is 
> affected by the bug from that compute job
>
> >>I am still missing something - we don't ever delete bad jobs or any 
> jobs until they are signaled, we reinsert the bad  job back into 
> mirror list in drm_sched_stop
>
> Oh yeah, it was still kept in the mirror list, I thought it was 
> removed once for good in scheduler…
>
> then my question is why we need to remove it in scheduler part if we 
> always need to reinsert it back?
>

See explanation in the original fix in this commit 'drm/scheduler: Avoid 
accessing freed bad job.' - the problem with that fix was that while it 
solved the original race issue it created another issue where if the 
driver was prematurely terminating the reset process due to guilty job 
already being signaled (optimization - like we have in non amdgpu 
drivers) OR reset lock contention from multiple TDR threads (like we 
have in amdgpu) then indeed we would remove the bad job but would not 
reinsert back as we would skip drm_sched_stop. For which issue Luben 
proposed a state machine approach to the entire job life cycle handling 
(can't find the patch-set now) but during which review it was decided 
that the optimal approach would be to stop relying on the job and start 
relying on the entity->finish_fence to keep all the info (What Christian 
mentions in the beginning of this thread).


> And even for other vendors the better way is still
>
> let vendor driver decide the heading job.
>
> The real issue we hit is : sometimes if we run a quark test (it hangs 
> kcq ring with a bad shader inside), X server will occasionally crash 
> with a GFX ring TDR report
>
> Root cause is still what I described before:  both this innocent gfx 
> job and the guilty compute job are all marked as “guilty” by our 
> driver, so even they are re-inserted back to mirror list
>
> But they are all abandoned in drm_sched_resubmit_jobs() due to they 
> are all processed by drm_sched_increase_karma()
>

I see now, in this case the main issue is indeed that we cannot rely on 
head job in mirror list to be the actual bad and guilty job and this 
then requires some redesign (e.g. along the lines of what you suggested).

Andrey


> *发件人:*Grodzovsky, Andrey <Andrey.Grodzovsky at amd.com>
> *发送时间:*2021年2月28日8:55
> *收件人:*Liu, Monk <Monk.Liu at amd.com>; Koenig, Christian 
> <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> *抄送:*Zhang, Andy <Andy.Zhang at amd.com>; Chen, Horace 
> <Horace.Chen at amd.com>; Zhang, Jack (Jian) <Jack.Zhang1 at amd.com>
> *主题:*Re: 回复: [RFC] a new approach to detect which ring is the real 
> black sheep upon TDR reported
>
> On 2021-02-26 10:56 p.m., Liu, Monk wrote:
>
>     [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
>
>     H Andrey
>
>     The scenario I hit here is not the one you mentioned, let me
>     explain it with more details by another much easier understood
>     example:
>
>     Consider ring you have a job1 on KCQ, but the timeout of KCQ is 60
>     seconds (just for example)
>
>     You also have a job2 on GFX ring, and the timeout of GFX is 2 seconds
>
>     We submit job1 first, and assume job1 have bug and it will cause
>     shader hang very very soon
>
>     After 10 seconds we submit job2, since KCQ have 60 seconds to
>     report TDR thus SW know nothing about the engine already hang
>
> So gfx job hangs because it has a dependency on buggy compute job 
> which already is hanging ?
>
>     After 2 seconds we got TDR report from job2 on GFX ring,
>     sched_job_timeout() think the leading job of GFX ring is the black
>     sheep so it is deleted from the mirror list
>
>     But in fact this job1 is innocent, and we should insert it back
>     after recovery , and due to it was already deleted this innocent
>     job’s context/process is really harmed
>
> I am still missing something - we don't ever delete bad jobs or any 
> jobs until they are signaled, we reinsert the bad  job back into 
> mirror list in drm_sched_stop
> (here - 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.11.1/source/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c#L385) 
> after sched thread is stopped and continue with the reset procedure.
>
> Andrey
>
>     Hope above example helps
>
>     Thanks
>
>     *发件人:*Grodzovsky, Andrey <Andrey.Grodzovsky at amd.com>
>     <mailto:Andrey.Grodzovsky at amd.com>
>     *发送时间:*2021年2月27日0:50
>     *收件人:*Liu, Monk <Monk.Liu at amd.com> <mailto:Monk.Liu at amd.com>;
>     Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
>     <mailto:Christian.Koenig at amd.com>; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>     <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>     *抄送:*Zhang, Andy <Andy.Zhang at amd.com> <mailto:Andy.Zhang at amd.com>;
>     Chen, Horace <Horace.Chen at amd.com> <mailto:Horace.Chen at amd.com>;
>     Zhang, Jack (Jian) <Jack.Zhang1 at amd.com> <mailto:Jack.Zhang1 at amd.com>
>     *主题:*Re: [RFC] a new approach to detect which ring is the real
>     black sheep upon TDR reported
>
>     On 2021-02-26 6:54 a.m., Liu, Monk wrote:
>
>         [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]
>
>         See in line
>
>         Thanks
>
>         ------------------------------------------
>
>         Monk Liu | Cloud-GPU Core team
>
>         ------------------------------------------
>
>         *From:*Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
>         <mailto:Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
>         *Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2021 3:58 PM
>         *To:* Liu, Monk <Monk.Liu at amd.com> <mailto:Monk.Liu at amd.com>;
>         amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>         <mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>
>         *Cc:* Zhang, Andy <Andy.Zhang at amd.com>
>         <mailto:Andy.Zhang at amd.com>; Chen, Horace
>         <Horace.Chen at amd.com> <mailto:Horace.Chen at amd.com>; Zhang,
>         Jack (Jian) <Jack.Zhang1 at amd.com> <mailto:Jack.Zhang1 at amd.com>
>         *Subject:* Re: [RFC] a new approach to detect which ring is
>         the real black sheep upon TDR reported
>
>         Hi Monk,
>
>         in general an interesting idea, but I see two major problems
>         with that:
>
>         1. It would make the reset take much longer.
>
>         2. Things get often stuck because of timing issues, so a
>         guilty job might pass perfectly when run a second time.
>
>         [ML] but the innocent ring already reported a TDR, and the drm
>         sched logic already deleted this “sched_job” in its mirror
>         list, thus you don’t have chance to re-submit it again after
>         reset, that’s the major problem here.
>
>     Just to confirm I understand correctly, Monk reports a scenario
>     where the second TDR that was reported by the innocent job is
>     bailing out BEFORE having a chance to run  drm_sched_stop for that
>     scheduler which should have reinserted the job back into mirror
>     list (because the first TDR run is still in progress and hence
>     amdgpu_device_lock_adev fails for the second TDR) and so the
>     innocent job which was extracted from mirror list in
>     drm_sched_job_timedout is now lost.
>     If so and as a possible quick fix until we overhaul the entire
>     design as suggested in this thread - maybe we can modify
>     drm_sched_backend_ops.timedout_job callback to report back
>     premature termination BEFORE drm_sched_stop had a chance to run
>     and then reinsert back the job into mirror list from within
>     drm_sched_job_timedout? There is no problem of racing against
>     concurrent drm_sched_get_cleanup_job once we reinsert there as we
>     don't reference the job pointer anymore after this point and so if
>     it's already signaled and freed right away - it's ok.
>
>     Andrey
>
>
>         Apart from that the whole ring mirror list turned out to be a
>         really bad idea. E.g. we still struggle with object life time
>         because the concept doesn't fit into the object model of the
>         GPU scheduler under Linux.
>
>         We should probably work on this separately and straighten up
>         the job destruction once more and keep the recovery
>         information in the fence instead.
>
>         [ML] we claim to our customer that no innocent process will be
>         dropped or cancelled, and our current logic works for the most
>         time, but only when there are different process running on
>         gfx/computes rings then we would run into the tricky situation
>         I stated here, and the proposal is the only way I can figure
>         out so far, do you have a better solution or idea we review it
>         as another candidate RFC ? Be note that we raised this
>         proposal is because we do hit our trouble and we do need to
>         resolve it …. So even a not perfect solution is still better
>         than just cancel the innocent job (and their context/process)
>
>         Thanks !
>
>
>         Regards,
>         Christian.
>
>         Am 26.02.21 um 06:58 schrieb Liu, Monk:
>
>             [AMD Public Use]
>
>             Hi all
>
>             NAVI2X  project hit a really hard to solve issue now, and
>             it is turned out to be a general headache of our TDR
>             mechanism , check below scenario:
>
>              1. There is a job1 running on compute1 ring at timestamp
>              2. There is a job2 running on gfx ring at timestamp
>              3. Job1 is the guilty one, and job1/job2 were scheduled
>                 to their rings at almost the same timestamp
>              4. After 2 seconds we receive two TDR reporting from both
>                 GFX ring and compute ring
>              5. *Current scheme is that in drm scheduler all the head
>                 jobs of those two rings are considered “bad job” and
>                 taken away from the mirror list *
>              6. The result is both the real guilty job (job1) and the
>                 innocent job (job2) were all deleted from mirror list,
>                 and their corresponding contexts were also treated as
>                 guilty*(so the innocent process remains running is not
>                 secured)*
>
>             **
>
>             But by our wish the ideal case is TDR mechanism can detect
>             which ring is the guilty ring and the innocent ring can
>             resubmits all its pending jobs:
>
>              1. Job1 to be deleted from compute1 ring’s mirror list
>              2. Job2 is kept and resubmitted later and its belonging
>                 process/context are even not aware of this TDR at all
>
>             Here I have a proposal tend to achieve above goal and it
>             rough procedure is :
>
>              1. Once any ring reports a TDR, the head job is **not**
>                 treated as “bad job”, and it is **not** deleted from
>                 the mirror list in drm sched functions
>              2. In vendor’s function (our amdgpu driver here):
>
>                   * reset GPU
>                   * repeat below actions on each RINGS * one by one *:
>
>             1.take the head job and submit it on this ring
>
>             2.see if it completes, if not then this job is the real
>             “bad job”
>
>             3. take it away from mirror list if this head job is “bad job”
>
>                   * After above iteration on all RINGS, we already
>                     clears all the bad job(s)
>
>              3. Resubmit all jobs from each mirror list to their
>                 corresponding rings (this is the existed logic)
>
>             The idea of this is to use “serial” way to re-run and
>             re-check each head job of each RING, in order to take out
>             the real black sheep and its guilty context.
>
>             P.S.: we can use this approaches only on GFX/KCQ ring
>             reports TDR , since those rings are intermutually affected
>             to each other. For SDMA ring timeout it definitely proves
>             the head job on SDMA ring is really guilty.
>
>             Thanks
>
>             ------------------------------------------
>
>             Monk Liu | Cloud-GPU Core team
>
>             ------------------------------------------
>
>
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