[PATCH] drm/amdgpu/vcn: Fix video_profile switch race condition

Sathishkumar S sathishkumar.sundararaju at amd.com
Tue Aug 12 14:56:10 UTC 2025


There is a race condition which leads to dpm video power
profile switch (disable and enable) during active video
decode on multi-instance VCN hardware.

This patch aims to fix/skip step 3 in the below sequence:

 - inst_1       power_on
 - inst_0(idle) power_off
 - inst_0(idle) video_power_profile OFF (step 3)
 - inst_1       video_power_profile ON during next begin_use

Add flags to track ON/OFF vcn instances and check if all
instances are off before disabling video power profile.

Protect workload_profile_active also within pg_lock and ON it
during first use and OFF it when last VCN instance is powered
OFF. VCN workload_profile_mutex can be removed after similar
clean up is done for vcn2_5.

Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar S <sathishkumar.sundararaju at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c | 24 +++++++++---------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c
index 9a76e11d1c18..da372dd7b761 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c
@@ -445,16 +445,16 @@ static void amdgpu_vcn_idle_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 	if (!fences && !atomic_read(&vcn_inst->total_submission_cnt)) {
 		mutex_lock(&vcn_inst->vcn_pg_lock);
 		vcn_inst->set_pg_state(vcn_inst, AMD_PG_STATE_GATE);
-		mutex_unlock(&vcn_inst->vcn_pg_lock);
-		mutex_lock(&adev->vcn.workload_profile_mutex);
-		if (adev->vcn.workload_profile_active) {
+		adev->vcn.flags &= AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_OFF(vcn_inst->inst);
+		if (adev->vcn.workload_profile_active &&
+		    !(adev->vcn.flags & AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_MASK(adev->vcn.num_vcn_inst))) {
 			r = amdgpu_dpm_switch_power_profile(adev, PP_SMC_POWER_PROFILE_VIDEO,
 							    false);
 			if (r)
 				dev_warn(adev->dev, "(%d) failed to disable video power profile mode\n", r);
 			adev->vcn.workload_profile_active = false;
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&adev->vcn.workload_profile_mutex);
+		mutex_unlock(&vcn_inst->vcn_pg_lock);
 	} else {
 		schedule_delayed_work(&vcn_inst->idle_work, VCN_IDLE_TIMEOUT);
 	}
@@ -470,14 +470,8 @@ void amdgpu_vcn_ring_begin_use(struct amdgpu_ring *ring)
 
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vcn_inst->idle_work);
 
-	/* We can safely return early here because we've cancelled the
-	 * the delayed work so there is no one else to set it to false
-	 * and we don't care if someone else sets it to true.
-	 */
-	if (adev->vcn.workload_profile_active)
-		goto pg_lock;
+	mutex_lock(&vcn_inst->vcn_pg_lock);
 
-	mutex_lock(&adev->vcn.workload_profile_mutex);
 	if (!adev->vcn.workload_profile_active) {
 		r = amdgpu_dpm_switch_power_profile(adev, PP_SMC_POWER_PROFILE_VIDEO,
 						    true);
@@ -485,11 +479,11 @@ void amdgpu_vcn_ring_begin_use(struct amdgpu_ring *ring)
 			dev_warn(adev->dev, "(%d) failed to switch to video power profile mode\n", r);
 		adev->vcn.workload_profile_active = true;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&adev->vcn.workload_profile_mutex);
 
-pg_lock:
-	mutex_lock(&vcn_inst->vcn_pg_lock);
-	vcn_inst->set_pg_state(vcn_inst, AMD_PG_STATE_UNGATE);
+	if (!(adev->vcn.flags & AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_ON(vcn_inst->inst))) {
+		vcn_inst->set_pg_state(vcn_inst, AMD_PG_STATE_UNGATE);
+		adev->vcn.flags |= AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_ON(vcn_inst->inst);
+	}
 
 	/* Only set DPG pause for VCN3 or below, VCN4 and above will be handled by FW */
 	if (adev->pg_flags & AMD_PG_SUPPORT_VCN_DPG &&
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h
index b3fb1d0e43fc..a876a182ff88 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h
@@ -366,6 +366,10 @@ struct amdgpu_vcn {
 	struct mutex            workload_profile_mutex;
 	u32 reg_count;
 	const struct amdgpu_hwip_reg_entry *reg_list;
+#define AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_MASK(n)  (BIT(n+1) - 1)
+#define AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_ON(n)    (BIT(n))
+#define AMDGPU_VCN_FLAG_VINST_OFF(n)   (~BIT(n))
+	u32 flags;
 };
 
 struct amdgpu_fw_shared_rb_ptrs_struct {
-- 
2.48.1



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