[Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for series starting with [1/2] drm/i915/guc: Don't enable GuC when vGPU is active

[Du, Changbin]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:17:39AM +0100, Michal Wajdeczko wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:53:47 +0100, Joonas Lahtinen
> <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 13:10 +0200, Tomi Sarvela wrote:
> > > On 15/01/18 12:28, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> > > > On 2018.01.15 12:07:28 +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 14:08 +0800, Du, Changbin wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:32:30AM +0530, Sagar Arun Kamble wrote:
> > > > > > > Is skl-gvtdvm not having vGPU active?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It has flag X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR set however it might be
> > > set on host too
> > > > > > > so relying intel_vgpu_active().
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you mean flag X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR is set on host, too?
> > > This is weird since this
> > > > > > flag indicates the OS is running on a hypervisor.
> > > > >
> > > > > + CI folks and Zhenyu
> > > > >
> > > > > Somehow, magically, the virtual machine seems to starts skipping all
> > > > > tests when GuC is disabled?
> > > > >
> > > > > Has somebody actually validated that the tests results are valid for
> > > > > the virtual machine? Or is this a one-off CI quirk?
> > > >
> > > > Are these tests really run in VM with GVT-g enabled on host?
> > > 
> > > These tests are ran on VM running on GVT-d (as name implies), not GVT-g.
> > 
> > I don't still understand how explicitly disabling GuC could make all
> > the tests skip on a machine that didn't use GuC to begin with. There
> > must be something wrong in the initialization code.
> > 
> > That intel_vgpu_active() check by my logic should not trigger in GVT-d
> > (because we don't have virtual GPU, we have the real deal, just without
> > stolen etc.), so I'm bit baffled.
> 
> True. This intel_vgpu_active() check added by Sagar is not active in these
> scenarios so we keep turn on GuC on that platform (as default from auto)
> 
> -	param(int, enable_guc, 0) \
> +	param(int, enable_guc, -1) \
> 
> [drm:intel_uc_sanitize_options [i915]] enable_guc=3 (submission:yes huc:yes)
> 
> but since i915_memcpy_from_wc() check still fails due to running under
> hypervisor (introduced by "drm/i915: Do not enable movntdqa optimization
> in hypervisor guest"), initialization of the GuC log fails
> 
> WARN_ON(!i915_memcpy_from_wc(((void *)0), ((void *)0), 0))
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 228 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_log.c:527
> intel_guc_log_create
> 
> and that is treated as driver load error (as we no longer support silent
> fallback from GuC to execlist, if GuC was selected using auto(-1) or
> explicit
> load(1) modparam option.
> 
> On the other mail thread there was proposal to make GuC log optional in
> case of running under hypervisor and disable it, but in my opinion it is
> not a solution but just short term fix, as we want to keep GuC log enabled
> since it works as is with other hypervisors.
>
> Michal

To enable Guc logging on hypervisor guest, I think the correct solution is to
fallback to memcpy() after i915_has_memcpy_from_wc(). At least for kvm, it needs
this change considering GPU passthrough.

Thanks,
Changbin Du