(REGRESSION bisected) Re: amdgpu errors (VM fault / GPU fault detected) with 5.19 merge window snapshots

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 10:22 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek at suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 09:58:22AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 8:58 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek at suse.cz> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:00:39AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > while testing 5.19 merge window snapshots (commits babf0bb978e3 and
> > > > 7e284070abe5), I keep getting errors like below. I have not seen them
> > > > with 5.18 final or older.
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > [  247.150333] gmc_v8_0_process_interrupt: 46 callbacks suppressed
> > > > [  247.150336] amdgpu 0000:0c:00.0: amdgpu: GPU fault detected: 147 0x00020802 for process firefox pid 6101 thread firefox:cs0 pid 6116
> > > > [  247.150339] amdgpu 0000:0c:00.0: amdgpu:   VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_ADDR   0x00107800
> > > > [  247.150340] amdgpu 0000:0c:00.0: amdgpu:   VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS 0x0D008002
> > > > [  247.150341] amdgpu 0000:0c:00.0: amdgpu: VM fault (0x02, vmid 6, pasid 32780) at page 1079296, write from 'TC2' (0x54433200) (8)
> > > [...]
> > > > [  249.925909] amdgpu 0000:0c:00.0: amdgpu: IH ring buffer overflow (0x000844C0, 0x00004A00, 0x000044D0)
> > > > [  250.434986] [drm] Fence fallback timer expired on ring sdma0
> > > > [  466.621568] gmc_v8_0_process_interrupt: 122 callbacks suppressed
> > > [...]
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > There does not seem to be any apparent immediate problem with graphics
> > > > but when running commit babf0bb978e3, there seemed to be a noticeable
> > > > lag in some operations, e.g. when moving a window or repainting large
> > > > part of the terminal window in konsole (no idea if it's related).
> > > >
> > > > My GPU is Radeon Pro WX 2100 (1002:6995). What other information should
> > > > I collect to help debugging the issue?
> > >
> > > Bisected to commit 5255e146c99a ("drm/amdgpu: rework TLB flushing").
> > > There seem to be later commits depending on it so I did not test
> > > a revert on top of current mainline.
> > >
> > > I should also mention that most commits tested as "bad" during the
> > > bisect did behave much worse than current mainline (errors starting as
> > > early as with sddm, visibly damaged screen content, sometimes even
> > > crashes). But all of them issued messages similar to those above into
> > > kernel log.
> >
> > Can you verify that the kernel you tested has this patch:
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm/commit/?id=5be323562c6a699d38430bc068a3fd192be8ed0d
>
> Yes, both of them:
>
> mike at lion:~/work/git/kernel-upstream> git merge-base --is-ancestor 5be323562c6a babf0bb978e3 && echo yes
> yes
>
> (7e284070abe5 is a later mainline snapshot so it also contains
> 5be323562c6a)
>
> But it's likely that commit 5be323562c6a fixed most of the problem and
> only some corner case was left as most bisect steps had many more error
> messages and some even crashed before I was able to even log into KDE.
> Compared to that, the mainline snapshots show much fewer errors, no
> distorted picture and no crash; on the other hand, applications like
> firefox or stellarium seem to trigger the errors quite consistently.

This patch should help:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/488258/

Alex

>
> Michal