[PATCH 0/3] Deferr load of radeon/amdgpu until amdkfd is loaded

[Oded Gabbay]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 15 February 2016 at 19:04, Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:16:52AM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
>>>> Following Daniel's request, I spent some time removing the hard requirement
>>>> that radeon and amdgpu will always appear _after_ amdkfd in the drm Makefile.
>>>>
>>>> This was done by modifing radeon/amdgpu to defer their loading if they detect
>>>> that amdkfd is not loaded yet, in case the drivers are built inside the
>>>> kernel image.
>>>>
>>>> See the patch's individiual commit messages for more explanation.
>>>>
>>>> This patch-set was tested on a KAVERI machine, with multiple configurations:
>>>>
>>>> 1. radeon + amdgpu (CIK disabled) + amdkfd as kernel modules
>>>> 2. radeon + amdgpu (CIK disabled) + amdkfd inside the kernel image
>>>> 3. amdgpu (CIK enabled) + amdkfd inside the kernel image (radeon not compiled)
>>>> 4. amdgpu (CIK enabled) inside the kernel image (radeon + amdkfd not compiled)
>>>> 5. radeon + amdgpu (CIK disabled) as kernel modules (amdkfd not compiled)
>>>
>>> Care to throw one patch on top (maybe on top of the patch floating around)
>>> to reorder amdkfd to be alphabetical? Just to make sure this doesn't get
>>> broken again accidentally. Or maybe just pick up the other patch and adapt
>>> it so it's all in one series.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Daniel
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> I thought about it and I think I prefer to leave the current order as
>> it is, for the reason that I observed the boot-up process is a little
>> bit faster when the deferred probing doesn't occur. This is probably
>> because all the moves between pending drivers list and active driver
>> list.
>>
>> Although this patch-set ensure that the kernel will boot successfully
>> with no regard to the order of amdkfd/radeon/amdgpu in the drm
>
> So, my drm make clean up patch should keep amdkfd in front of radeon/amdgpu?
>
> Best,
> -xinliang

As I wrote to Daniel, I think that for the sake of a faster boot time,
we should keep amdkfd before radeon/amdgpu. This patch is to make sure
that if someone will change it without us watching, everything will
still work (and that's why its an important patch as Daniel said)

Oded

>
>> makefile, I think that if the current order gives us a bit less boot
>> time then it is better to keep things as they are.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>       Oded
>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>     Oded
>>>>
>>>> Oded Gabbay (3):
>>>>   drm/amdkfd: Track when module's init is complete
>>>>   drm/radeon: Return -EPROBE_DEFER when amdkfd not loaded
>>>>   drm/amdgpu: Return -EPROBE_DEFER when amdkfd not loaded
>>>>
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.c      | 57 +++++++++----------------
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.h      |  2 +-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c         | 10 ++++-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.c         | 15 +++++--
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/kgd_kfd_interface.h |  2 +-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c             | 10 ++++-
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.c             | 25 ++++++-----
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kfd.h             |  2 +-
>>>>  8 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 2.5.0
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Vetter
>>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>>> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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