[PATCH 0/6] RFC Support hot device unplug in amdgpu

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:19:30AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Vetter (2020-05-11 10:54:33)
> >   - worse, neither vk nor gl (to my knowledge) have a concept of events
> >     for when the gpu died. The only stuff you have is things like
> >     arb_robustness which says a) everything continues as if nothing
> >     happened b) there's a function where you can ask whether your gl
> >     context and all the textures/buffers are toast.
> 
> Vulkan/DX12 arrived after eGPU, and there is at least the concept of
> VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST. Mainly used at the moment after a GPU hang and
> loss of context.
> 
> https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions/html/vkspec.html#devsandqueues-lost-device

Ah cool, so -EIO on some ioctls, with silencing it in the gl driver and
passing it on for the vk driver should be ok. Assuming vk frameworks
bother to implement the *may* thing. I'm assuming if the validation
midlayer doesn't inject this, it's untested and firework will ensue.

But then more direct path to fireworks is what vk is all about :-)
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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