[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Provide a timeout to i915_gem_wait_for_idle() on setup

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Jul 9 10:42:36 UTC 2018


With a broken GPU we expect it to fail during the initial
GPU setup where do a couple of context switches to record the defaults.
This is a task that takes a few milliseconds even on the slowest of
devices, but we may have to wait 60s for hangcheck to give in and
declare the machine inoperable. In this a case where any gpu hang is
unacceptable, both from a timeliness and practical standpoint.

We can therefore set a timeout on our wait-for-idle that is shorter than
the hangcheck (which may be up to 60s for a declaring a wedged driver)
and so detect the broken GPU much more quickly during driver load (and
so prevent stalling userspace for ages).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 093d98ed7755..05a9486dd4cf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -5361,11 +5361,10 @@ static int __intel_engines_record_defaults(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 	if (err)
 		goto err_active;
 
-	err = i915_gem_wait_for_idle(i915,
-				     I915_WAIT_LOCKED,
-				     MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
-	if (err)
+	if (i915_gem_wait_for_idle(i915, I915_WAIT_LOCKED, HZ / 5)) {
+		err = -EIO; /* Caller will declare us wedged */
 		goto err_active;
+	}
 
 	assert_kernel_context_is_current(i915);
 
-- 
2.18.0



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