[PATCH 2/2] drm/amdgpu: add AMDGPURESET uevent on AMD GPU reset

[Christian König]

Am 17.01.22 um 11:09 schrieb Somalapuram, Amaranath:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 3:33 PM
> To: Somalapuram, Amaranath <Amaranath.Somalapuram at amd.com>; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com>; Sharma, Shashank <Shashank.Sharma at amd.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/amdgpu: add AMDGPURESET uevent on AMD GPU reset
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> Am 17.01.22 um 11:01 schrieb Somalapuram, Amaranath:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 12:57 PM
>> To: Somalapuram, Amaranath <Amaranath.Somalapuram at amd.com>;
>> amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Cc: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com>; Sharma, Shashank
>> <Shashank.Sharma at amd.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/amdgpu: add AMDGPURESET uevent on AMD GPU
>> reset
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>> Am 17.01.22 um 07:33 schrieb Somalapuram Amaranath:
>>> AMDGPURESET uevent added to notify userspace, collect dump_stack and
>>> trace
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Somalapuram Amaranath <Amaranath.Somalapuram at amd.com>
>>> ---
>>>     drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/nv.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>     1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/nv.c
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/nv.c index 2ec1ffb36b1f..b73147ae41fb
>>> 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/nv.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/nv.c
>>> @@ -529,10 +529,55 @@ nv_asic_reset_method(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>     	}
>>>     }
>>>     
>>> +/**
>>> + * drm_sysfs_reset_event - generate a DRM uevent
>>> + * @dev: DRM device
>>> + *
>>> + * Send a uevent for the DRM device specified by @dev.  Currently we
>>> +only
>>> + * set AMDGPURESET=1 in the uevent environment, but this could be
>>> +expanded to
>>> + * deal with other types of events.
>>> + *
>>> + * Any new uapi should be using the
>>> +drm_sysfs_connector_status_event()
>>> + * for uevents on connector status change.
>>> + */
>>> +void drm_sysfs_reset_event(struct drm_device *dev)
>> This should probably go directly into the DRM subsystem.
>>
>>> +{
>>> +	char *event_string = "AMDGPURESET=1";
>>> +	char *envp[2] = { event_string, NULL };
>>> +
>>> +	kobject_uevent_env(&dev->primary->kdev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
>> As I said this approach is a clear NAK. We can't allocate any memory when we do a reset.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>> Can I do something like this:
>>
>> void drm_sysfs_reset_event(struct drm_device *dev)
>>    {
>> -       char *event_string = "AMDGPURESET=1";
>> -       char *envp[2] = { event_string, NULL };
>> +       char **envp;
>> +
>> +       envp = kcalloc(2,sizeof(char *), GFP_ATOMIC);
>> +       envp[0] = kcalloc(30, sizeof(char), GFP_ATOMIC);
>> +       envp[1] = kcalloc(30, sizeof(char), GFP_ATOMIC);
> No, not really. kobject_uevent_env() will still allocate memory without GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> I think the whole approach of using udev won't work for this.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> I have tested it with sample applications:
> Gpu reset:
> sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_gpu_recover
>
> And I never missed the AMDGPURESET=1 event in user space,

That's not the problem. Allocating memory when we need to do a reset can 
cause a *HARD* kernel deadlock.

This is absolutely not something we can do and Daniel even tried to add 
a few lockdep annotations for this.

So automated testing scripts will complain that this won't work.

Regards,
Christian.

> even with continues resets with sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_gpu_recover .


>
> Regards,
> S.Amarnath
>> +
>> +       strcpy(envp[0], "AMDGPURESET=1");
>> +       strcpy(envp[1], "");
>> +
>>
>>           kobject_uevent_env(&dev->primary->kdev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE,
>> envp);
>> +
>> +       kfree(envp[0]);
>> +       kfree(envp[1]);
>> +       kfree(envp);
>>    }
>>
>> Regards,
>> S.Amarnath
>>
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +void amdgpu_reset_dumps(struct amdgpu_device *adev) {
>>> +	struct drm_device *ddev = adev_to_drm(adev);
>>> +	int r = 0, i;
>>> +
>>> +	/* original raven doesn't have full asic reset */
>>> +	if ((adev->apu_flags & AMD_APU_IS_RAVEN) &&
>>> +		!(adev->apu_flags & AMD_APU_IS_RAVEN2))
>>> +		return;
>>> +	for (i = 0; i < adev->num_ip_blocks; i++) {
>>> +		if (!adev->ip_blocks[i].status.valid)
>>> +			continue;
>>> +		if (!adev->ip_blocks[i].version->funcs->reset_reg_dumps)
>>> +			continue;
>>> +		r = adev->ip_blocks[i].version->funcs->reset_reg_dumps(adev);
>>> +
>>> +		if (r)
>>> +			DRM_ERROR("reset_reg_dumps of IP block <%s> failed %d\n",
>>> +					adev->ip_blocks[i].version->funcs->name, r);
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	drm_sysfs_reset_event(ddev);
>>> +	dump_stack();
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>     static int nv_asic_reset(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>     {
>>>     	int ret = 0;
>>>     
>>> +	amdgpu_reset_dumps(adev);
>>>     	switch (nv_asic_reset_method(adev)) {
>>>     	case AMD_RESET_METHOD_PCI:
>>>     		dev_info(adev->dev, "PCI reset\n");