[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915/huc: bump timeout for delayed load and reduce print verbosity

[John Harrison]

On 10/10/2022 15:57, Ceraolo Spurio, Daniele wrote:
> On 10/10/2022 3:50 PM, John Harrison wrote:
>> On 10/10/2022 11:48, Daniele Ceraolo Spurio wrote:
>>> We're observing sporadic HuC delayed load timeouts in CI, due to 
>>> mei_pxp
>>> binding completing later than we expected. HuC is still loaded when the
>>> bind occurs, but in the meantime i915 has started allowing 
>>> submission to
>>> the VCS engines even if HuC is not there.
>>> In most of the cases I've observed, the timeout was due to the
>>> init/resume of another driver between i915 and mei hitting errors and
>>> thus adding an extra delay, but HuC was still loaded before userspace
>>> could submit, because the whole resume process time was increased by 
>>> the
>>> delays.
>>>
>>> Given that there is no upper bound to the delay that can be introduced
>>> by other drivers, I've reached the following compromise with the media
>>> team:
>>>
>>> 1) i915 is going to bump the timeout to 5s, to reduce the probability
>>> of reaching it. We still expect HuC to be loaded before userspace
>>> starts submitting, so increasing the timeout should have no impact on
>>> normal operations, but in case something weird happens we don't want to
>>> stall video submissions for too long.
>>>
>>> 2) The media driver will cope with the failing submissions that manage
>>> to go through between i915 init/resume complete and HuC loading, if any
>>> ever happen. This could cause a small corruption of video playback
>>> immediately after a resume (we should be safe on boot because the media
>>> driver polls the HUC_STATUS ioctl before starting submissions).
>>>
>>> Since we're accepting the timeout as a valid outcome, I'm also reducing
>>> the print verbosity from error to notice.
>>>
>>> v2: use separate prints for MEI GSC and MEI PXP init timeouts (John)
>>>
>>> References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/7033
>>> Fixes: 27536e03271d ("drm/i915/huc: track delayed HuC load with a 
>>> fence")
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
>>> Cc: Tony Ye <tony.ye at intel.com>
>>> Cc: John Harrison <john.c.harrison at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c | 14 ++++++++++----
>>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c
>>> index 4d1cc383b681..41c032ab34b3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_huc.c
>>> @@ -52,10 +52,12 @@
>>>    * guaranteed for this to happen during boot, so the big timeout 
>>> is a safety net
>>>    * that we never expect to need.
>>>    * MEI-PXP + HuC load usually takes ~300ms, but if the GSC needs 
>>> to be resumed
>>> - * and/or reset, this can take longer.
>>> + * and/or reset, this can take longer. Note that the kernel might 
>>> schedule
>>> + * other work between the i915 init/resume and the MEI one, which 
>>> can add to
>>> + * the delay.
>>>    */
>>>   #define GSC_INIT_TIMEOUT_MS 10000
>>> -#define PXP_INIT_TIMEOUT_MS 2000
>>> +#define PXP_INIT_TIMEOUT_MS 5000
>>>     static int sw_fence_dummy_notify(struct i915_sw_fence *sf,
>>>                    enum i915_sw_fence_notify state)
>>> @@ -104,8 +106,12 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart 
>>> huc_delayed_load_timer_callback(struct hrtimer *hrti
>>>       struct intel_huc *huc = container_of(hrtimer, struct 
>>> intel_huc, delayed_load.timer);
>>>         if (!intel_huc_is_authenticated(huc)) {
>>> -        drm_err(&huc_to_gt(huc)->i915->drm,
>>> -            "timed out waiting for GSC init to load HuC\n");
>>> +        if (huc->delayed_load.status == INTEL_HUC_WAITING_ON_GSC)
>>> +            drm_notice(&huc_to_gt(huc)->i915->drm,
>>> +                   "timed out waiting for MEI GSC init to load 
>>> HuC\n");
>>> +        else if (huc->delayed_load.status == INTEL_HUC_WAITING_ON_PXP)
>>> +            drm_notice(&huc_to_gt(huc)->i915->drm,
>>> +                   "timed out waiting for MEI PXP init to load 
>>> HuC\n");
>> Hmm. It feels wrong to assume that the status can only be GSC or PXP. 
>> Granted, it certainly should be one of those two values if we get 
>> here. But it just seems like bad practice to have a partial if/elsif 
>> ladder for an enum value instead of a switch with a default path. 
>> What I meant originally was just have a single print that says 'timed 
>> out waiting for MEI GSC/PXP to load...', maybe with the status value 
>> being printed. I don't think it is critically important to 
>> differentiate between the two, I just meant that it was wrong to 
>> explicitly state GSC when it might not be.
>
> It is guaranteed that the state is one of those 2 in this callback. 
> The only other option is an error state, which we set from the 
> __gsc_init_error() below. I can make it an unconditional else, or add 
> an else MISSING_CASE(status) if you think that works better, but given 
> the errors we've seen I'd prefer to keep the prints separate for extra 
> clarity.
I agree a third state is theoretically impossible. Currently. But yeah 
the MISSING_CASE thing works if you think two separate prints is beneficial.

John.

>
> Daniele
>
>>
>> John.
>>
>>>             __gsc_init_error(huc);
>>>       }
>>
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