[PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: check vm ready by amdgpu_vm->evicting flag

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Wed Feb 23 07:47:47 UTC 2022


Dear Qiang,


Am 22.02.22 um 03:46 schrieb Qiang Yu:
> Workstation application ANSA/META v21.1.4 get this error dmesg when
> running CI test suite provided by ANSA/META:
> [drm:amdgpu_gem_va_ioctl [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Couldn't update BO_VA (-16)
> 
> This is caused by:
> 1. create a 256MB buffer in invisible VRAM
> 2. CPU map the buffer and access it causes vm_fault and try to move
>     it to visible VRAM
> 3. force visible VRAM space and traverse all VRAM bos to check if
>     evicting this bo is valuable
> 4. when checking a VM bo (in invisible VRAM), amdgpu_vm_evictable()
>     will set amdgpu_vm->evicting, but latter due to not in visible
>     VRAM, won't really evict it so not add it to amdgpu_vm->evicted
> 5. before next CS to clear the amdgpu_vm->evicting, user VM ops
>     ioctl will pass amdgpu_vm_ready() (check amdgpu_vm->evicted)
>     but fail in amdgpu_vm_bo_update_mapping() (check
>     amdgpu_vm->evicting) and get this error log
> 
> This error won't affect functionality as next CS will finish the
> waiting VM ops. But we'd better clear the error log by checking
> the amdgpu_vm->evicting flag in amdgpu_vm_ready() to stop calling
> amdgpu_vm_bo_update_mapping() latter.

later
> Another reason is amdgpu_vm->evicted list holds all BOs (both
> user buffer and page table), but only page table BOs' eviction
> prevent VM ops. amdgpu_vm->evicting flag is set only for page
> table BOs, so we should use evicting flag instead of evicted list
> in amdgpu_vm_ready().
> 
> The side effect of This change is: previously blocked VM op (user

this

> buffer in "evicted" list but no page table in it) gets done
> immediately.
> 
> v2: update commit comments.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu <qiang.yu at amd.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 9 +++++++--
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> index 37acd8911168..2cd9f1a2e5fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> @@ -770,11 +770,16 @@ int amdgpu_vm_validate_pt_bos(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
>    * Check if all VM PDs/PTs are ready for updates
>    *
>    * Returns:
> - * True if eviction list is empty.
> + * True if VM is not evicting.
>    */
>   bool amdgpu_vm_ready(struct amdgpu_vm *vm)
>   {
> -	return list_empty(&vm->evicted);
> +	bool ret;
> +
> +	amdgpu_vm_eviction_lock(vm);
> +	ret = !vm->evicting;
> +	amdgpu_vm_eviction_unlock(vm);
> +	return ret;
>   }
>   
>   /**

Acked-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>


Kind regards,

Paul


More information about the amd-gfx mailing list