[Bug 216373] New: Uncorrected errors reported for AMD GPU

[Christian König]

Am 25.08.22 um 19:48 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:18:28AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 25.08.22 um 09:54 schrieb Lazar, Lijo:
>>> On 8/25/2022 1:04 PM, Christian König wrote:
>>>> Am 25.08.22 um 08:40 schrieb Stefan Roese:
>>>>> On 24.08.22 16:45, Tom Seewald wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:11 AM Lazar, Lijo
>>>>>> <lijo.lazar at amd.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, I don't have any NV platforms to test. Attached is an
>>>>>>> 'untested-patch' based on your trace logs.
>>>>>> ...
>>>>> I did not follow this thread in depth, but FWICT the bug is solved now
>>>>> with this patch. So is it correct, that the now fully enabled AER
>>>>> support in the PCI subsystem in v6.0 helped detecting a bug in the AMD
>>>>> GPU driver?
>>>> It looks like it, but I'm not 100% sure about the rational behind it.
>>>>
>>>> Lijo can you explain more on this?
>>>  From the trace, during gmc hw_init it takes this route -
>>>
>>> gart_enable -> amdgpu_gtt_mgr_recover -> amdgpu_gart_invalidate_tlb ->
>>> amdgpu_device_flush_hdp -> amdgpu_asic_flush_hdp (non-ring based HDP
>>> flush)
>>>
>>> HDP flush is done using remapped offset which is MMIO_REG_HOLE_OFFSET
>>> (0x80000 - PAGE_SIZE)
>>>
>>> WREG32_NO_KIQ((adev->rmmio_remap.reg_offset +
>>> KFD_MMIO_REMAP_HDP_MEM_FLUSH_CNTL) >> 2, 0);
>>>
>>> However, the remapping is not yet done at this point. It's done at a
>>> later point during common block initialization. Access to the unmapped
>>> offset '(0x80000 - PAGE_SIZE)' seems to come back as unsupported request
>>> and reported through AER.
>> That's interesting behavior. So far AER always indicated some kind of
>> transmission error.
>>
>> When that happens as well on unmapped areas of the MMIO BAR then we need to
>> keep that in mind.
> AER can log many different kinds of errors, some related to hardware
> issues and some related to software.
>
> PCI writes are normally posted and get no response, so AER is the main
> way to find out about writes to unimplemented addresses.
>
> Reads do get a response, of course, and reads to unimplemented
> addresses cause errors that most hardware turns into a ~0 data return
> (in addition to reporting via AER if enabled).

The issue is that previous hardware generations reported this through a 
device specific interrupt.

It's nice to see that this is finally standardized. I'm just wondering 
if we could retire our hardware specific interrupt handler for this as well.

Christian.

>
> Bjorn