[PATCH v7 1/5] drm: Introduce device wedged event
Andy Shevchenko
andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Mon Sep 30 12:59:59 UTC 2024
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 01:08:41PM +0530, Raag Jadav wrote:
> Introduce device wedged event, which will notify userspace of wedged
> (hanged/unusable) state of the DRM device through a uevent. This is
> useful especially in cases where the device is no longer operating as
> expected even after a hardware reset and has become unrecoverable from
> driver context.
>
> Purpose of this implementation is to provide drivers a generic way to
> recover with the help of userspace intervention. Different drivers may
> have different ideas of a "wedged device" depending on their hardware
> implementation, and hence the vendor agnostic nature of the event.
> It is up to the drivers to decide when they see the need for recovery
> and how they want to recover from the available methods.
>
> Current implementation defines three recovery methods, out of which,
> drivers can choose to support any one or multiple of them. Preferred
> recovery method will be sent in the uevent environment as WEDGED=<method>.
> Userspace consumers (sysadmin) can define udev rules to parse this event
> and take respective action to recover the device.
>
> =============== ==================================
> Recovery method Consumer expectations
> =============== ==================================
> rebind unbind + rebind driver
> bus-reset unbind + reset bus device + rebind
> reboot reboot system
> =============== ==================================
...
> +/*
> + * Available recovery methods for wedged device. To be sent along with device
> + * wedged uevent.
> + */
> +static const char *const drm_wedge_recovery_opts[] = {
> + [DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_REBIND] = "rebind",
> + [DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_BUS_RESET] = "bus-reset",
> + [DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_REBOOT] = "reboot",
> +};
Place for static_assert() is here, as it closer to the actual data we test...
> +static bool drm_wedge_recovery_is_valid(enum drm_wedge_recovery method)
> +{
> + static_assert(ARRAY_SIZE(drm_wedge_recovery_opts) == DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_MAX);
...it doesn't fully belong to this function (or only to this function).
> + return method >= DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_REBIND && method < DRM_WEDGE_RECOVERY_MAX;
> +}
Why do we need this one-liner (after above comment being addressed) as a
separate function?
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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