[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Disable preemption and sleeping while using the punit sideband

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Thu Jan 11 22:04:05 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 11-01-18 22:42, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11-01-18 22:17, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:53:42PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> Quoting Ville Syrjälä (2018-01-11 20:10:45)
>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:55:05PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>>>> While we talk to the punit over its sideband, we need to prevent the cpu
>>>>> from sleeping in order to prevent a potential machine hang.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that by itself, it appears that pm_qos_update_request (via
>>>>> intel_idle) doesn't provide a sufficient barrier to ensure that all core
>>>>> are indeed awake (out of Cstate) and that the package is awake. To do so,
>>>>> we need to supplement the pm_qos with a manual ping on_each_cpu.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
>>>>> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102657
>>>>> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195255
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
>>>>> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
>>>>> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c       |  6 ++++
>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       |  1 +
>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sideband.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>>>>   3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
>>>>> index 6c8da9d20c33..d4b90cc0130b 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
>>>>> @@ -902,6 +902,9 @@ static int i915_driver_init_early(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>>>>>        spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->uncore.lock);
>>>>>        mutex_init(&dev_priv->sb_lock);
>>>>> +     pm_qos_add_request(&dev_priv->sb_qos,
>>>>> +                        PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY, PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE);
>>>>> +
>>>>>        mutex_init(&dev_priv->modeset_restore_lock);
>>>>>        mutex_init(&dev_priv->av_mutex);
>>>>>        mutex_init(&dev_priv->wm.wm_mutex);
>>>>> @@ -953,6 +956,9 @@ static void i915_driver_cleanup_early(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>>>>>        intel_irq_fini(dev_priv);
>>>>>        i915_workqueues_cleanup(dev_priv);
>>>>>        i915_engines_cleanup(dev_priv);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +     pm_qos_remove_request(&dev_priv->sb_qos);
>>>>> +     mutex_destroy(&dev_priv->sb_lock);
>>>>>   }
>>>>>   static int i915_mmio_setup(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>>>>> index a689396d0ff6..ff3f9effc0bb 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>>>>> @@ -1887,6 +1887,7 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
>>>>>        /* Sideband mailbox protection */
>>>>>        struct mutex sb_lock;
>>>>> +     struct pm_qos_request sb_qos;
>>>>>        /** Cached value of IMR to avoid reads in updating the bitfield */
>>>>>        union {
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sideband.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sideband.c
>>>>> index 75c872bb8cc9..02bdd2e2cef6 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sideband.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sideband.c
>>>>> @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
>>>>>    *
>>>>>    */
>>>>> +#include <asm/iosf_mbi.h>
>>>>> +
>>>>>   #include "i915_drv.h"
>>>>>   #include "intel_drv.h"
>>>>> @@ -39,18 +41,20 @@
>>>>>   /* Private register write, double-word addressing, non-posted */
>>>>>   #define SB_CRWRDA_NP 0x07
>>>>> -static int vlv_sideband_rw(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 devfn,
>>>>> -                        u32 port, u32 opcode, u32 addr, u32 *val)
>>>>> +static void ping(void *info)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> -     u32 cmd, be = 0xf, bar = 0;
>>>>> -     bool is_read = (opcode == SB_MRD_NP || opcode == SB_CRRDDA_NP);
>>>>> +}
>>>>> -     cmd = (devfn << IOSF_DEVFN_SHIFT) | (opcode << IOSF_OPCODE_SHIFT) |
>>>>> -             (port << IOSF_PORT_SHIFT) | (be << IOSF_BYTE_ENABLES_SHIFT) |
>>>>> -             (bar << IOSF_BAR_SHIFT);
>>>>> +static int vlv_sideband_rw(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>>>>> +                        u32 devfn, u32 port, u32 opcode,
>>>>> +                        u32 addr, u32 *val)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +     const bool is_read = (opcode == SB_MRD_NP || opcode == SB_CRRDDA_NP);
>>>>> +     int err;
>>>>> -     WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&dev_priv->sb_lock));
>>>>> +     lockdep_assert_held(&dev_priv->sb_lock);
>>>>> +     /* Flush the previous comms, just in case it failed last time. */
>>>>>        if (intel_wait_for_register(dev_priv,
>>>>>                                    VLV_IOSF_DOORBELL_REQ, IOSF_SB_BUSY, 0,
>>>>>                                    5)) {
>>>>> @@ -59,22 +63,43 @@ static int vlv_sideband_rw(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 devfn,
>>>>>                return -EAGAIN;
>>>>>        }
>>>>> -     I915_WRITE(VLV_IOSF_ADDR, addr);
>>>>> -     I915_WRITE(VLV_IOSF_DATA, is_read ? 0 : *val);
>>>>> -     I915_WRITE(VLV_IOSF_DOORBELL_REQ, cmd);
>>>>> +     iosf_mbi_punit_acquire();
>>>>> -     if (intel_wait_for_register(dev_priv,
>>>>> -                                 VLV_IOSF_DOORBELL_REQ, IOSF_SB_BUSY, 0,
>>>>> -                                 5)) {
>>>>> +     /*
>>>>> +      * Prevent the cpu from sleeping while we use this sideband, otherwise
>>>>> +      * the punit may cause a machine hang.
>>>>> +      */
>>>>> +     pm_qos_update_request(&dev_priv->sb_qos, 0);
>>>>> +     on_each_cpu(ping, NULL, 1);
>>>>
>>>> pm_qos_update_request() doesn't wake up the cpus on its own? I wonder
>>>> kind of latency guarantees it can actually give without doing that.
>>>
>>> intel_idle plugs into the update to wake up idle cpus, but it is not
>>> synchronous. If we don't have the on_each_cpu() here, the hangs reoccur;
>>> the easiest answer seems to be that the on_each_cpu() is causing a
>>> schedule of the RT migration thread which is enough to ensure that the
>>> wakeup has occurred.
>>>> Shouldn't we check if we're actually be talking to the punit and not
>>>> some other unit before we do all this extra work?
>>>
>>> Checking port? I am suspicious of the whole iosf mechanism...
>>
>> I doubt iosf sb itself is busted. That would probably make the entire
>> soc pretty much dead. I suspect the problem is either in the punit
>> firmware, or something fishy is going on with power delivery and
>> reducing the rate at which we change the voltages and whatnot helps
>> keep things a bit more stable.
>>
>> So yeah, I would limit this to punit only by checking the port.
>>
>>>
>>> Also debating whether to only apply it to j1900 or all. Is it just pure
>>> fluke that we can easily reproduce it on the quad core Baytrail as
>>> opposed to the dual core vlv or chv?
>>
>> Not sure. I guess if the problem is around power delivery it might even
>> be board specific to some degree.
> 
> The wordpress (on azure.com) link here:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051#c860
> 
> Certainly seems to hint at a power delivery problem (with the SoC not
> with specific boards) and all models reported as needing
> intel_idle.max_cstate=1 there are quad-core Bay Trails.
> 
> I guess it the problem happens on all quad-core Bay Trail variants when
> the GPU and CPU both increase there power-demand (by up-clocking, resp.
> leaving C6) at the same time and Chris' fix makes sure all CPU cores
> leave C6 before doing the GPU up-clocking avoiding this.
> 
> Note this is all speculation / educated guessing.

Also interesting wrt this is this comment:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051#c752

Which speculates along the same line and the commenter has done
extensive testing (with 2 boards) coming to the conclusion that
the dual core part does not have whatever problem he is seeing.

Regards,

Hans


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