[PATCH v2] drm/scheduler: Fix hang when sched_entity released

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 08:38:56 UTC 2021



Am 18.02.21 um 17:41 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>
> On 2/18/21 10:15 AM, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 18.02.21 um 16:05 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>>>
>>> On 2/18/21 3:07 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 17.02.21 um 22:59 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>>>>> Problem: If scheduler is already stopped by the time sched_entity
>>>>> is released and entity's job_queue not empty I encountred
>>>>> a hang in drm_sched_entity_flush. This is because 
>>>>> drm_sched_entity_is_idle
>>>>> never becomes false.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fix: In drm_sched_fini detach all sched_entities from the
>>>>> scheduler's run queues. This will satisfy drm_sched_entity_is_idle.
>>>>> Also wakeup all those processes stuck in sched_entity flushing
>>>>> as the scheduler main thread which wakes them up is stopped by now.
>>>>>
>>>>> v2:
>>>>> Reverse order of drm_sched_rq_remove_entity and marking
>>>>> s_entity as stopped to prevent reinserion back to rq due
>>>>> to race.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky at amd.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 31 
>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>   1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c 
>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>>>>> index 908b0b5..c6b7947 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>>>>> @@ -897,9 +897,40 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_init);
>>>>>    */
>>>>>   void drm_sched_fini(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> +    int i;
>>>>> +    struct drm_sched_entity *s_entity;
>>>>
>>>> BTW: Please order that so that i is declared last.
>>>>
>>>>>       if (sched->thread)
>>>>>           kthread_stop(sched->thread);
>>>>>   +    /* Detach all sched_entites from this scheduler once it's 
>>>>> stopped */
>>>>> +    for (i = DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_COUNT - 1; i >= 
>>>>> DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_MIN; i--) {
>>>>> +        struct drm_sched_rq *rq = &sched->sched_rq[i];
>>>>> +
>>>>> +        if (!rq)
>>>>> +            continue;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +        /* Loop this way because rq->lock is taken in 
>>>>> drm_sched_rq_remove_entity */
>>>>> +        spin_lock(&rq->lock);
>>>>> +        while ((s_entity = list_first_entry_or_null(&rq->entities,
>>>>> +                                struct drm_sched_entity,
>>>>> +                                list))) {
>>>>> +            spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            /* Prevent reinsertion and remove */
>>>>> +            spin_lock(&s_entity->rq_lock);
>>>>> +            s_entity->stopped = true;
>>>>> +            drm_sched_rq_remove_entity(rq, s_entity);
>>>>> +            spin_unlock(&s_entity->rq_lock);
>>>>
>>>> Well this spin_unlock/lock dance here doesn't look correct at all now.
>>>>
>>>> Christian.
>>>
>>>
>>> In what way ? It's in the same same order as in other call sites 
>>> (see drm_sched_entity_push_job and drm_sched_entity_flush).
>>> If i just locked rq->lock and did list_for_each_entry_safe while 
>>> manually deleting entity->list instead of calling
>>> drm_sched_rq_remove_entity this still would not be possible as the 
>>> order of lock acquisition between  s_entity->rq_lock
>>> and rq->lock would be reverse compared to the call sites mentioned 
>>> above.
>>
>> Ah, now I understand. You need this because 
>> drm_sched_rq_remove_entity() will grab the rq lock again!
>>
>> Problem is now what prevents the entity from being destroyed while 
>> you remove it?
>>
>> Christian.
>
> Right, well, since (unfortunately) sched_entity is part of 
> amdgpu_ctx_entity and amdgpu_ctx_entity is refcounted
> there is a problem here that we don't increment amdgpu_ctx.refcount 
> when assigning  sched_entity
> to new rq (e.g. before drm_sched_rq_add_entity) and not decrement 
> before removing. We do it for
> amdgpu_cs_parser.entity for example (in amdgpu_cs_parser_init and 
> amdgpu_cs_parser_fini by
> calling amdgpu_ctx_get and amdgpu_ctx_put). But this seems a bit 
> tricky due to all the drm_sched_entity_select_rq
> logic.
>
> Another, kind of a band aid fix, would probably be just locking 
> amdgpu_ctx_mgr.lock around drm_sched_fini
> when finalizing the fence driver and around idr iteration in 
> amdgpu_ctx_mgr_fini (which should be lock protected
> anyway as I see from other idr usages in the code) ... This should 
> prevent this use after free.

Puh, that's rather complicated as well. Ok let's look at it from the 
other side for a moment.

Why do we have to remove the entities from the rq in the first place?

Wouldn't it be sufficient to just set all of them to stopped?

Christian.

>
> Andrey
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> Andrey
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            spin_lock(&rq->lock);
>>>>> +        }
>>>>> +        spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    }
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    /* Wakeup everyone stuck in drm_sched_entity_flush for this 
>>>>> scheduler */
>>>>> +    wake_up_all(&sched->job_scheduled);
>>>>> +
>>>>>       /* Confirm no work left behind accessing device structures */
>>>>>       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&sched->work_tdr);
>>>>
>>



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