CIK hangs with kernel 3.15, bisected

[Christian König]

Am 13.05.2014 15:22, schrieb Alex Deucher:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Grigori Goronzy <greg at chown.ath.cx> wrote:
>> I can confirm this fixes it for me, too.
>>
>> 3.15 with these fixes and the large PTE patches actually ends up being
>> noticeably slower than earlier kernels with Xonotic, though. I wonder what's
>> going on.
> Allocation overhead?

Unlikely, Xonotic just allocates a single page table at start, which 
then gets extended to a certain rate until they no longer need more 
address space and are done with it.

Grigori, can you bisect and/or try to figure out what's wrong here?

Christian.

>
>
>> Grigori
>>
>>
>> On 12.05.2014 14:50, Christian König wrote:
>>> I could reproduce the problem with xonotic and I think I've found the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Please test the attached patch.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>> Am 11.05.2014 11:06, schrieb Christian König:
>>>>> I have tested it and it doesn't fix the hangs.
>>>> Yeah, thought so. Well it was just a guess.
>>>>
>>>>> (Also, I don't like the patch, because it reverts the behavior I added
>>>>> for userspace buffers.)
>>>> Actually it shouldn't affect that. The alternative domain always
>>>> contains GART even when userspace only specified VRAM as placement (as
>>>> long as it is technical possible to do so).
>>>>
>>>> So what should happen is that TTM sees the current placement, matches
>>>> that with the desired placement and should find that it doesn't need
>>>> to move the buffer (we should just test if this behavior really works
>>>> as expected).
>>>>
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>> Am 10.05.2014 23:38, schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tested it and it doesn't fix the hangs.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Also, I don't like the patch, because it reverts the behavior I added
>>>>> for userspace buffers.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Marek
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Christian König
>>>>> <deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
>>>>>> Couldn't reproduce the issue so far. So the attached patch is just a
>>>>>> complete shoot into the dark found by rereading the code, but it might
>>>>>> actually be the problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please give it a try.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Going to keep testing in the meantime,
>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 10.05.2014 10:23, schrieb Christian König:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see hangs with kernel 3.15 and SI under memory pressure, e.g. if
>>>>>>>> I boot
>>>>>>>> with radeon.vramlimit=256 and then run Xonotic timedemo with high
>>>>>>>> settings.
>>>>>>>> I haven't had a chance to bisect it yet, but it might be a similar
>>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>> Sounds like the same issue to me. Thx for the good test case.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any idea what is wrong with it?
>>>>>>> Actually I already wondered that it went so smooth without any
>>>>>>> regression
>>>>>>> so far, didn't noticed the bug in bugzilla.kernel.org yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some of the tests allocate a lot of MSAA textures and the tests also
>>>>>>>> run in parallel, which creates a lot of memory pressure and probably
>>>>>>>> causes buffer evictions.
>>>>>>> Sounds like the underlying problem to me. We probably evict some
>>>>>>> part of a
>>>>>>> page table without updating the page directory. Going to dig into
>>>>>>> it today,
>>>>>>> it's probably just a one liner missing somewhere in the VM code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 09.05.2014 23:39, schrieb Grigori Goronzy:
>>>>>>>> On 09.05.2014 20:03, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This commit which first appeared in 3.15-rc1 causes hangs on
>>>>>>>>> Bonaire:
>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The simplest way to reproduce the hangs is to run piglit with these
>>>>>>>>> parameters:
>>>>>>>>> -t texelFetch.fs
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Some of the tests allocate a lot of MSAA textures and the tests also
>>>>>>>>> run in parallel, which creates a lot of memory pressure and probably
>>>>>>>>> causes buffer evictions.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see hangs with kernel 3.15 and SI under memory pressure, e.g. if
>>>>>>>> I boot
>>>>>>>> with radeon.vramlimit=256 and then run Xonotic timedemo with high
>>>>>>>> settings.
>>>>>>>> I haven't had a chance to bisect it yet, but it might be a similar
>>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Grigori
>>>>>>>
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