3.18-rc regression: drm/nouveau: use shared fences for readable objects

Michael Marineau mike at marineau.org
Sun Nov 30 13:10:00 PST 2014


On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
<maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Op 27-11-14 om 02:18 schreef Tobias Klausmann:
>>
>>
>> On 26.11.2014 21:29, Michael Marineau wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Maarten Lankhorst
>>> <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> Op 22-11-14 om 21:16 schreef Michael Marineau:
>>>>> On Nov 22, 2014 11:45 AM, "Michael Marineau" <mike at marineau.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Nov 22, 2014 8:56 AM, "Maarten Lankhorst" <
>>>>> maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Op 22-11-14 om 01:19 schreef Michael Marineau:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
>>>>>>>> <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Op 20-11-14 om 05:06 schreef Michael Marineau:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
>>>>>>>>>> <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 19-11-14 07:43, Michael Marineau wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3.18-rc kernel's I have been intermittently experiencing GPU
>>>>>>>>>>>> lockups shortly after startup, accompanied with one or both of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> following errors:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] read fault at 0x000734a000 [PTE]
>>>>>>>>>>>> from PBDMA0/HOST_CPU on channel 0x007faa3000 [unknown]
>>>>>>>>>>>> nouveau E[     DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I was able to trace the issue with bisect to commit
>>>>>>>>>>>> 809e9447b92ffe1346b2d6ec390e212d5307f61c "drm/nouveau: use shared
>>>>>>>>>>>> fences for readable objects". The lockups appear to have cleared
>>>>> up
>>>>>>>>>>>> since reverting that and a few related followup commits:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 809e9447: "drm/nouveau: use shared fences for readable objects"
>>>>>>>>>>>> 055dffdf: "drm/nouveau: bump driver patchlevel to 1.2.1"
>>>>>>>>>>>> e3be4c23: "drm/nouveau: specify if interruptible wait is desired
>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>>>>> nouveau_fence_sync"
>>>>>>>>>>>> 15a996bb: "drm/nouveau: assign fence_chan->name correctly"
>>>>>>>>>>> Weird. I'm not sure yet what causes it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mlankhorst/linux/commit/?h=fixed-fences-for-bisect&id=86be4f216bbb9ea3339843a5658d4c21162c7ee2
>>>>>>>>>> Building a kernel from that commit gives me an entirely new
>>>>> behavior:
>>>>>>>>>> X hangs for at least 10-20 seconds at a time with brief moments of
>>>>>>>>>> responsiveness before hanging again while gitk on the kernel repo
>>>>>>>>>> loads. Otherwise the system is responsive. The head of that
>>>>>>>>>> fixed-fences-for-bisect branch (1c6aafb5) which is the "use shared
>>>>>>>>>> fences for readable objects" commit I originally bisected to does
>>>>>>>>>> feature the complete lockups I was seeing before.
>>>>>>>>> Ok for the sake of argument lets just assume they're separate bugs,
>>>>> and we should look at xorg
>>>>>>>>> hanging first.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there anything in the dmesg when the hanging happens?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And it's probably 15 seconds, if it's called through
>>>>> nouveau_fence_wait.
>>>>>>>>> Try changing else if (!ret) to else if (WARN_ON(!ret)) in that
>>>>> function, and see if you get some dmesg spam. :)
>>>>>>>> Adding the WARN_ON to 86be4f21 repots the following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676073] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676161] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 474 at
>>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c:359
>>>>>>>> nouveau_fence_wait.part.9+0x33/0x40 [nouveau]()
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676166] Modules linked in: rndis_host cdc_ether usbnet mii bnep
>>>>>>>> ecb btusb bluetooth rfkill bridge stp llc hid_generic usb_storage
>>>>>>>> joydev mousedev hid_apple usbhid bcm5974 nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat
>>>>>>>> fat nouveau snd_hda_codec_hdmi coretemp x86_pkg_temp_thermal
>>>>>>>> intel_powerclamp kvm_intel kvm iTCO_wdt crct10dif_pclmul
>>>>>>>> iTCO_vendor_support crc32c_intel evdev aesni_intel mac_hid aes_x86_64
>>>>>>>> lrw glue_helper ablk_helper applesmc snd_hda_codec_cirrus cryptd
>>>>>>>> input_polldev snd_hda_codec_generic mxm_wmi led_class wmi microcode
>>>>>>>> hwmon snd_hda_intel ttm snd_hda_controller lpc_ich i2c_i801 mfd_core
>>>>>>>> snd_hda_codec i2c_algo_bit snd_hwdep drm_kms_helper snd_pcm sbs drm
>>>>>>>> apple_gmux i2ccore snd_timer snd agpgart mei_me soundcore sbshc mei
>>>>>>>> video xhci_hcd usbcore usb_common apple_bl button battery ac efivars
>>>>>>>> autofs4
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676300]  efivarfs
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676308] CPU: 1 PID: 474 Comm: Xorg Tainted: G        W
>>>>>>>> 3.17.0-rc2-nvtest+ #147
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676313] Hardware name: Apple Inc.
>>>>>>>> MacBookPro11,3/Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663, BIOS
>>>>>>>> MBP112.88Z.0138.B11.1408291503 08/29/2014
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676316]  0000000000000009 ffff88045daebce8 ffffffff814f0c09
>>>>>>>> 0000000000000000
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676325]  ffff88045daebd20 ffffffff8104ea5d ffff88006a6c1468
>>>>>>>> 00000000fffffff0
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676333]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88006a6c1000
>>>>>>>> ffff88045daebd30
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676341] Call Trace:
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676356]  [<ffffffff814f0c09>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676369]  [<ffffffff8104ea5d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676377]  [<ffffffff8104eb3a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676439]  [<ffffffffc04dd523>]
>>>>>>>> nouveau_fence_wait.part.9+0x33/0x40 [nouveau]
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676496]  [<ffffffffc04ddfe6>] nouveau_fence_wait+0x16/0x30
>>>>> [nouveau]
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676552]  [<ffffffffc04e598f>]
>>>>>>>> nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep+0xef/0x1f0 [nouveau]
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676578]  [<ffffffffc01c2f4c>] drm_ioctl+0x1ec/0x660 [drm]
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676590]  [<ffffffff814f9026>] ?
>>>>> _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676600]  [<ffffffff81094f6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676655]  [<ffffffffc04da5b4>] nouveau_drm_ioctl+0x54/0xc0
>>>>> [nouveau]
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676663]  [<ffffffff811a8950>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x300/0x520
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676671]  [<ffffffff814f9e55>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676677]  [<ffffffff811a8bb1>] SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x80
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676683]  [<ffffffff814f9e29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>>>>>> [ 1188.676688] ---[ end trace 6f7a510865b4674f ]---
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here are the fence events that fired during that particular
>>>>> fence_wait:
>>>>>>>>              Xorg   474 [004]  1173.667645: fence:fence_wait_start:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56910
>>>>>>>>              Xorg   474 [004]  1173.667647: fence:fence_enable_signal:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56910
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.667688: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56900
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.667692: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56900
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.667839: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56901
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.667842: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56901
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668021: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56902
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668482: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56903
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668485: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56903
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668489: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56904
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668496: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56905
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668499: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56905
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668502: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56906
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668505: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56907
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668508: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56907
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668511: fence:fence_signaled:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56908
>>>>>>>>           swapper     0 [007]  1173.668513: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56908
>>>>>>>>       kworker/4:1    80 [004]  1173.676265: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56896
>>>>>>>>       kworker/4:1    80 [004]  1173.676273: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56898
>>>>>>>>       kworker/4:1    80 [004]  1173.676277: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56902
>>>>>>>>       kworker/4:1    80 [004]  1173.676280: fence:fence_destroy:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56904
>>>>>>>>              Xorg   474 [001]  1188.676067: fence:fence_wait_end:
>>>>>>>> driver=nouveau timeline=Xorg[474] context=2 seqno=56910
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I assume that excludes the context you really want so the full fence
>>>>>>>> event log and corresponding dmesg output are attached.
>>>>>>> Yep, the trace events are useful. The fence is emitted and presumably
>>>>> no event is fired after emission.
>>>>>>> Lets find out if the nvif crap is buggy or it's a result of some other
>>>>> issue, what happens when you change:
>>>>>>> .wait = fence_default_wait,
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> .wait = nouveau_fence_wait_legacy,
>>>>>>> in nouveau_fence.c?
>>>>>> That change works just fine.
>>>>> The xorg hangs also appear to be resolved by db1cf46 "drm/nouveau: use rcu
>>>>> in nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep"
>>>>>
>>>> Oh right, I just remembered what was going on there..
>>>> the .wait was a workaround for a bug in the nvif interface. The hangs should be resolved by applying
>>>> 7caa63c04029c5882865867470c106ef73eafb2b
>>>>
>>>> Can you confirm?
>>>>
>>>> Could you also confirm that 1c6aafb5f1b84fa5 "drm/nouveau: use shared fences for readable objects, EDITED" with the
>>>> above commit applied is the first broken commit?
>>>>
>>>> ~Maarten
>>>>
>>> I don't follow, 7caa63c04029c5882865867470c106ef73eafb2b precedes
>>> those other commits so there is nothing to apply. Just for kicks I
>>> tried reverting it but that made no difference in behavior. Did you
>>> mean something else?
>>>
>> No, Maarten brought me on the same track, missing that this commit was already in that branch.
>>
>> (Please don't remove me from this thread again, as Maarten requested me to do the same he asked you to do, just easier to follow this, thanks)
>>
>> Tobias
>>
> Ok that most likely means the interrupt based wait is borked somehow, so lets find out why..
>
> I fear that this happens because of a race in the interface, so my first attempt will rule out abuse of the nvif api by nouveau_fence.c
>
> Can you test below patch with the default wait function?

Tested this on top of both 86be4f21 and 1c6aafb5 and I did not see any
significant difference in either of the two behaviors.

>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
> index 515cd9aebb99..c1a4ffebc206 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
> @@ -52,20 +52,27 @@ nouveau_fctx(struct nouveau_fence *fence)
>         return container_of(fence->base.lock, struct nouveau_fence_chan, lock);
>  }
>
> -static void
> -nouveau_fence_signal(struct nouveau_fence *fence)
> +static int
> +nouveau_fence_signal(struct nouveau_fence *fence, int delay)
>  {
> +       int drop = 0;
> +
>         fence_signal_locked(&fence->base);
>         list_del(&fence->head);
>
>         if (test_bit(FENCE_FLAG_USER_BITS, &fence->base.flags)) {
>                 struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx = nouveau_fctx(fence);
>
> -               if (!--fctx->notify_ref)
> -                       nvif_notify_put(&fctx->notify);
> +               if (!--fctx->notify_ref) {
> +                       if (!delay)
> +                               nvif_notify_put(&fctx->notify);
> +                       else
> +                               drop = 1;
> +               }
>         }
>
>         fence_put(&fence->base);
> +       return drop;
>  }
>
>  static struct nouveau_fence *
> @@ -94,7 +101,7 @@ nouveau_fence_context_del(struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx)
>         while (!list_empty(&fctx->pending)) {
>                 fence = list_entry(fctx->pending.next, typeof(*fence), head);
>
> -               nouveau_fence_signal(fence);
> +               nouveau_fence_signal(fence, 0);
>                 fence->channel = NULL;
>         }
>         spin_unlock_irq(&fctx->lock);
> @@ -112,10 +119,11 @@ nouveau_fence_context_free(struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx)
>         kref_put(&fctx->fence_ref, nouveau_fence_context_put);
>  }
>
> -static void
> -nouveau_fence_update(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx)
> +static int
> +nouveau_fence_update(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx, int delay)
>  {
>         struct nouveau_fence *fence;
> +       int drop = 0;
>
>         u32 seq = fctx->read(chan);
>
> @@ -123,10 +131,12 @@ nouveau_fence_update(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence_chan *fc
>                 fence = list_entry(fctx->pending.next, typeof(*fence), head);
>
>                 if ((int)(seq - fence->base.seqno) < 0)
> -                       return;
> +                       break;
>
> -               nouveau_fence_signal(fence);
> +               drop |= nouveau_fence_signal(fence, delay);
>         }
> +
> +       return drop;
>  }
>
>  static int
> @@ -135,18 +145,20 @@ nouveau_fence_wait_uevent_handler(struct nvif_notify *notify)
>         struct nouveau_fence_chan *fctx =
>                 container_of(notify, typeof(*fctx), notify);
>         unsigned long flags;
> +       int ret = NVIF_NOTIFY_KEEP;
>
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&fctx->lock, flags);
>         if (!list_empty(&fctx->pending)) {
>                 struct nouveau_fence *fence;
>
>                 fence = list_entry(fctx->pending.next, typeof(*fence), head);
> -               nouveau_fence_update(fence->channel, fctx);
> +               if (nouveau_fence_update(fence->channel, fctx, 1))
> +                       ret = NVIF_NOTIFY_DROP;
>         }
>         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fctx->lock, flags);
>
>         /* Always return keep here. NVIF refcount is handled with nouveau_fence_update */
> -       return NVIF_NOTIFY_KEEP;
> +       return ret;
>  }
>
>  void
> @@ -262,7 +274,7 @@ nouveau_fence_emit(struct nouveau_fence *fence, struct nouveau_channel *chan)
>         if (!ret) {
>                 fence_get(&fence->base);
>                 spin_lock_irq(&fctx->lock);
> -               nouveau_fence_update(chan, fctx);
> +               nouveau_fence_update(chan, fctx, 0);
>                 list_add_tail(&fence->head, &fctx->pending);
>                 spin_unlock_irq(&fctx->lock);
>         }
> @@ -282,7 +294,7 @@ nouveau_fence_done(struct nouveau_fence *fence)
>                         return true;
>
>                 spin_lock_irqsave(&fctx->lock, flags);
> -               nouveau_fence_update(fence->channel, fctx);
> +               nouveau_fence_update(fence->channel, fctx, 0);
>                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fctx->lock, flags);
>         }
>         return fence_is_signaled(&fence->base);
>
>



-- 
Michael Marineau


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