[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Set guilty-flag on fence after detecting a hang

[Chris Wilson]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:57:44AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 03/01/2017 11:46, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:34:45AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> >>
> >>On 03/01/2017 11:05, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >>>The struct dma_fence carries a status field exposed to userspace by
> >>>sync_file. This is inspected after the fence is signaled and can convey
> >>>whether or not the request completed successfully, or in our case if we
> >>>detected a hang during the request (signaled via -EIO in
> >>>SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO).
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >>>Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>>Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
> >>>---
> >>>drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 6 ++++--
> >>>1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>index 204c4a673bf3..bc99c0e292d8 100644
> >>>--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>@@ -2757,10 +2757,12 @@ static void i915_gem_reset_engine(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
> >>>		ring_hung = false;
> >>>	}
> >>>
> >>>-	if (ring_hung)
> >>>+	if (ring_hung) {
> >>>		i915_gem_context_mark_guilty(request->ctx);
> >>>-	else
> >>>+		request->fence.status = -EIO;
> >>>+	} else {
> >>>		i915_gem_context_mark_innocent(request->ctx);
> >>>+	}
> >>>
> >>>	if (!ring_hung)
> >>>		return;
> >>>
> >>
> >>Reading what happens later in this function, should we set the
> >>status of all the other requests we are about to clear?
> >>
> >>However one thing I don't understand is how this scheme interacts
> >>with the current userspace. We will clear/no-nop some of the
> >>submitted requests since the state is corrupt. But how will
> >>userspace notice this before it submits more requets?
> >
> >There is no mechanism currently for user space to be able to detect a
> >hung request. (It can use the uevent for async notification of the
> >hang/reset, but that will not tell you who caused the hang.) Userspace
> >can track the number of hangs it caused, but the delay makes any
> >roundtripping impractical (i.e. you have to synchronise before all
> >rendering if you must detect the event immediately). Note also that we
> >do not want to give out interprocess information (i.e. to allow one
> >client to spy on another), which makes things harder to get right.
> 
> So idea is to clear already submitted requests _if_ the userspace is
> synchronising before all rendering and looking at reset stats, to
> make it theoretically possible to detect the corrupt state?

No, I'm just don't see a way that userspace can detect the hang without
testing after seeing the request signaled (either by waiting on the
batch or by waiting on the fence), i.e. by being completely synchronous
(or at least chosing its synchronous points very carefully, such as
around IPC). It can either poll reset-count or use sync_file (which
requires fence exporting).

The current robustness interfaces is a basic query on whether any reset
occurred within the context, not when.
 
> Still with the fences do you agree error status needs to be set on
> those as well?

Yes.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre