[PATCH 3/6] drm/amdgpu: Rework coredump to use memory dynamically

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Wed Jul 12 11:36:37 UTC 2023


Am 12.07.23 um 12:56 schrieb Lucas Stach:
> Sorry, accidentally hit sent on the previous mail.
>
> Am Mittwoch, dem 12.07.2023 um 12:39 +0200 schrieb Christian König:
>> Am 12.07.23 um 10:59 schrieb Lucas Stach:
>>> Am Mittwoch, dem 12.07.2023 um 10:37 +0200 schrieb Christian König:
>>>> Am 11.07.23 um 23:34 schrieb André Almeida:
>>>>> Instead of storing coredump information inside amdgpu_device struct,
>>>>> move if to a proper separated struct and allocate it dynamically. This
>>>>> will make it easier to further expand the logged information.
>>>> Verry big NAK to this. The problem is that memory allocation isn't
>>>> allowed during a GPU reset.
>>>>
>>>> What you could do is to allocate the memory with GFP_ATOMIC or similar,
>>>> but for a large structure that might not be possible.
>>>>
>>> I'm still not fully clear on what the rules are here. In etnaviv we do
>>> devcoredump allocation in the GPU reset path with __GFP_NOWARN |
>>> __GFP_NORETRY, which means the allocation will kick memory reclaim if
>>> necessary, but will just give up if no memory could be made available
>>> easily. This satisfies the forward progress guarantee in the absence of
>>> successful memory allocation, which is the most important property in
>>> this path, I think.
>>>
>>> However, I'm not sure if the reclaim could lead to locking issues or
>>> something like that with the more complex use-cases with MMU notifiers
>>> and stuff like that. Christian, do you have any experience or
>>> information that would be good to share in this regard?
>> Yeah, very good question.
>>
>> __GFP_NORETRY isn't sufficient as far as I know. Reclaim must be
>> completely suppressed to be able to allocate in a GPU reset handler.
>>
>> Daniel added lockdep annotation to some of the dma-fence signaling paths
>> and this yielded quite a bunch of potential deadlocks.
>>
>> It's not even that reclaim itself waits for dma_fences (that can happen,
>> but is quite unlikely), but rather that reclaim needs locks and under
>> those locks we then wait for dma_fences.
>>
>> We should probably add a define somewhere which documents that
>> (GFP_ATOMIC | __NO_WARN) should be used in the GPU reset handlers when
>> allocating memory for coredumps.
>>
> Hm, if the problem is the direct reclaim path where we might recurse on
> a lock through those indirect dependencies then we should document this
> somewhere. kswapd reclaim should be fine as far as I can see, as we'll
> guarantee progress without waiting for the background reclaim.
>
> I don't think it's appropriate to dip into the atomic allocation
> reserves for a best-effort thing like writing the devcoredump,

Yeah, that was also my concern the last time we discussed this.

> so I think this should be GFP_NOWAIT, which will also avoid the direct
> reclaim path.

Yeah, good idea. I wasn't aware that this existed.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Regards,
> Lucas
>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Lucas
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid at igalia.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h        | 14 +++--
>>>>>     drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 65 ++++++++++++++--------
>>>>>     2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
>>>>> index dbe062a087c5..e1cc83a89d46 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h
>>>>> @@ -1068,11 +1068,6 @@ struct amdgpu_device {
>>>>>     	uint32_t                        *reset_dump_reg_list;
>>>>>     	uint32_t			*reset_dump_reg_value;
>>>>>     	int                             num_regs;
>>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
>>>>> -	struct amdgpu_task_info         reset_task_info;
>>>>> -	bool                            reset_vram_lost;
>>>>> -	struct timespec64               reset_time;
>>>>> -#endif
>>>>>     
>>>>>     	bool                            scpm_enabled;
>>>>>     	uint32_t                        scpm_status;
>>>>> @@ -1085,6 +1080,15 @@ struct amdgpu_device {
>>>>>     	uint32_t			aid_mask;
>>>>>     };
>>>>>     
>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
>>>>> +struct amdgpu_coredump_info {
>>>>> +	struct amdgpu_device		*adev;
>>>>> +	struct amdgpu_task_info         reset_task_info;
>>>>> +	struct timespec64               reset_time;
>>>>> +	bool                            reset_vram_lost;
>>>>> +};
>>>>> +#endif
>>>>> +
>>>>>     static inline struct amdgpu_device *drm_to_adev(struct drm_device *ddev)
>>>>>     {
>>>>>     	return container_of(ddev, struct amdgpu_device, ddev);
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>>>> index e25f085ee886..23b9784e9787 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
>>>>> @@ -4963,12 +4963,17 @@ static int amdgpu_reset_reg_dumps(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>>>     	return 0;
>>>>>     }
>>>>>     
>>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
>>>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
>>>>> +static void amdgpu_coredump(struct amdgpu_device *adev, bool vram_lost,
>>>>> +			    struct amdgpu_reset_context *reset_context)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +#else
>>>>>     static ssize_t amdgpu_devcoredump_read(char *buffer, loff_t offset,
>>>>>     		size_t count, void *data, size_t datalen)
>>>>>     {
>>>>>     	struct drm_printer p;
>>>>> -	struct amdgpu_device *adev = data;
>>>>> +	struct amdgpu_coredump_info *coredump = data;
>>>>>     	struct drm_print_iterator iter;
>>>>>     	int i;
>>>>>     
>>>>> @@ -4982,21 +4987,21 @@ static ssize_t amdgpu_devcoredump_read(char *buffer, loff_t offset,
>>>>>     	drm_printf(&p, "**** AMDGPU Device Coredump ****\n");
>>>>>     	drm_printf(&p, "kernel: " UTS_RELEASE "\n");
>>>>>     	drm_printf(&p, "module: " KBUILD_MODNAME "\n");
>>>>> -	drm_printf(&p, "time: %lld.%09ld\n", adev->reset_time.tv_sec, adev->reset_time.tv_nsec);
>>>>> -	if (adev->reset_task_info.pid)
>>>>> +	drm_printf(&p, "time: %lld.%09ld\n", coredump->reset_time.tv_sec, coredump->reset_time.tv_nsec);
>>>>> +	if (coredump->reset_task_info.pid)
>>>>>     		drm_printf(&p, "process_name: %s PID: %d\n",
>>>>> -			   adev->reset_task_info.process_name,
>>>>> -			   adev->reset_task_info.pid);
>>>>> +			   coredump->reset_task_info.process_name,
>>>>> +			   coredump->reset_task_info.pid);
>>>>>     
>>>>> -	if (adev->reset_vram_lost)
>>>>> +	if (coredump->reset_vram_lost)
>>>>>     		drm_printf(&p, "VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!\n");
>>>>> -	if (adev->num_regs) {
>>>>> +	if (coredump->adev->num_regs) {
>>>>>     		drm_printf(&p, "AMDGPU register dumps:\nOffset:     Value:\n");
>>>>>     
>>>>> -		for (i = 0; i < adev->num_regs; i++)
>>>>> +		for (i = 0; i < coredump->adev->num_regs; i++)
>>>>>     			drm_printf(&p, "0x%08x: 0x%08x\n",
>>>>> -				   adev->reset_dump_reg_list[i],
>>>>> -				   adev->reset_dump_reg_value[i]);
>>>>> +				   coredump->adev->reset_dump_reg_list[i],
>>>>> +				   coredump->adev->reset_dump_reg_value[i]);
>>>>>     	}
>>>>>     
>>>>>     	return count - iter.remain;
>>>>> @@ -5004,14 +5009,34 @@ static ssize_t amdgpu_devcoredump_read(char *buffer, loff_t offset,
>>>>>     
>>>>>     static void amdgpu_devcoredump_free(void *data)
>>>>>     {
>>>>> +	kfree(data);
>>>>>     }
>>>>>     
>>>>> -static void amdgpu_reset_capture_coredumpm(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>>>>> +static void amdgpu_coredump(struct amdgpu_device *adev, bool vram_lost,
>>>>> +			    struct amdgpu_reset_context *reset_context)
>>>>>     {
>>>>> +	struct amdgpu_coredump_info *coredump;
>>>>>     	struct drm_device *dev = adev_to_drm(adev);
>>>>>     
>>>>> -	ktime_get_ts64(&adev->reset_time);
>>>>> -	dev_coredumpm(dev->dev, THIS_MODULE, adev, 0, GFP_KERNEL,
>>>>> +	coredump = kmalloc(sizeof(*coredump), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	if (!coredump) {
>>>>> +		DRM_ERROR("%s: failed to allocate memory for coredump\n", __func__);
>>>>> +		return;
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	memset(coredump, 0, sizeof(*coredump));
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	coredump->reset_vram_lost = vram_lost;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	if (reset_context->job && reset_context->job->vm)
>>>>> +		coredump->reset_task_info = reset_context->job->vm->task_info;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	coredump->adev = adev;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	ktime_get_ts64(&coredump->reset_time);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	dev_coredumpm(dev->dev, THIS_MODULE, coredump, 0, GFP_KERNEL,
>>>>>     		      amdgpu_devcoredump_read, amdgpu_devcoredump_free);
>>>>>     }
>>>>>     #endif
>>>>> @@ -5119,15 +5144,9 @@ int amdgpu_do_asic_reset(struct list_head *device_list_handle,
>>>>>     					goto out;
>>>>>     
>>>>>     				vram_lost = amdgpu_device_check_vram_lost(tmp_adev);
>>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP
>>>>> -				tmp_adev->reset_vram_lost = vram_lost;
>>>>> -				memset(&tmp_adev->reset_task_info, 0,
>>>>> -						sizeof(tmp_adev->reset_task_info));
>>>>> -				if (reset_context->job && reset_context->job->vm)
>>>>> -					tmp_adev->reset_task_info =
>>>>> -						reset_context->job->vm->task_info;
>>>>> -				amdgpu_reset_capture_coredumpm(tmp_adev);
>>>>> -#endif
>>>>> +
>>>>> +				amdgpu_coredump(tmp_adev, vram_lost, reset_context);
>>>>> +
>>>>>     				if (vram_lost) {
>>>>>     					DRM_INFO("VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!\n");
>>>>>     					amdgpu_inc_vram_lost(tmp_adev);



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