[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v4] drm/i915: add guard page to ggtt->error_capture

Andrzej Hajda andrzej.hajda at intel.com
Mon Feb 27 15:35:11 UTC 2023


Hi all,

As suggested by Rodrigo added CC: Tvrtko and Joonas, see below.


On 22.02.2023 21:48, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:05:16PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Gently ping on the patch. CI pollution is quite high:
>> $ grep 'PTE Read access' CI/drm-tip/CI_DRM_12768/*/dmesg* | wc -l
>> 308
>>
>> Regards
>> Andrzej
>>
>> On 08.02.2023 11:51, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
>>> Write-combining memory allows speculative reads by CPU.
>>> ggtt->error_capture is WC mapped to CPU, so CPU/MMU can try
>>> to prefetch memory beyond the error_capture, ie it tries
>>> to read memory pointed by next PTE in GGTT.
>>> If this PTE points to invalid address DMAR errors will occur.
>>> This behaviour was observed on ADL, RPL, DG2 platforms.
>>> To avoid it, guard scratch page should be added after error_capture.
>>> The patch fixes the most annoying issue with error capture but
>>> since WC reads are used also in other places there is a risk similar
>>> problem can affect them as well.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda at intel.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> This patch tries to diminish plague of DMAR read errors present
>>> in CI for ADL*, RPL*, DG2 platforms, see for example [1] (grep DMAR).
>>> CI is usually tolerant for these errors, so the scale of the problem
>>> is not really visible.
> 
> is this info not relevant to the commit msg?

It is, but also seems slightly redundant for me, except the alarming tone :)

> 
>>> To show it I have counted lines containing DMAR read errors in dmesgs
>>> produced by CI for all three versions of the patch, but in contrast to v2
>>> I have grepped only for lines containing "PTE Read access".
>>> Below stats for kernel w/o patch vs patched one.
>>> v1: 210 vs 0
>>> v2: 201 vs 0
>>> v3: 214 vs 0
>>> Apparently the patch fixes all common PTE read errors.
>>>
>>> In previous version there were different numbers due to less exact grepping,
>>> "grep DMAR" catched write errors and "DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg"
>>> lines, anyway the actual number of errors is much bigger - DMAR errors
>>> are rate-limited.
>>>
>>> [1]: http://gfx-ci.igk.intel.com/tree/drm-tip/CI_DRM_12678/bat-adln-1/dmesg0.txt
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>> v2:
>>>       - modified commit message (I hope the diagnosis is correct),
>>>       - added bug checks to ensure scratch is initialized on gen3 platforms.
>>>         CI produces strange stacktrace for it suggesting scratch[0] is NULL,
>>>         to be removed after resolving the issue with gen3 platforms.
>>> v3:
>>>       - removed bug checks, replaced with gen check.
>>> v4:
>>>       - change code for scratch page insertion to support all platforms,
>>>       - add info in commit message there could be more similar issues
> 
> in general in i915 we keep the history in the commit msg itself as well...
> 
> But with this CI history behind I would like Tvrtko or Joonas to take a look
> and merge to drm-intel-gt-next.

Tvrtko, Joonas any comments?

Regards
Andrzej

> 
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Andrzej
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>    1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>> index 842e69c7b21e49..6566d2066f1f8b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>> @@ -503,6 +503,21 @@ static void cleanup_init_ggtt(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>    	mutex_destroy(&ggtt->error_mutex);
>>>    }
>>> +static void
>>> +ggtt_insert_scratch_pages(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt, u64 offset, u64 length)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct i915_address_space *vm = &ggtt->vm;
>>> +
>>> +	if (GRAPHICS_VER(ggtt->vm.i915) < 8)
>>> +		return vm->clear_range(vm, offset, length);
>>> +	/* clear_range since gen8 is nop */
>>> +	while (length > 0) {
>>> +		vm->insert_page(vm, px_dma(vm->scratch[0]), offset, I915_CACHE_NONE, 0);
>>> +		offset += I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE;
>>> +		length -= I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE;
>>> +	}
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>    static int init_ggtt(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>    {
>>>    	/*
>>> @@ -551,8 +566,12 @@ static int init_ggtt(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>    		 * paths, and we trust that 0 will remain reserved. However,
>>>    		 * the only likely reason for failure to insert is a driver
>>>    		 * bug, which we expect to cause other failures...
>>> +		 *
>>> +		 * Since CPU can perform speculative reads on error capture
>>> +		 * (write-combining allows it) add scratch page after error
>>> +		 * capture to avoid DMAR errors.
>>>    		 */
>>> -		ggtt->error_capture.size = I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE;
>>> +		ggtt->error_capture.size = 2 * I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE;
>>>    		ggtt->error_capture.color = I915_COLOR_UNEVICTABLE;
>>>    		if (drm_mm_reserve_node(&ggtt->vm.mm, &ggtt->error_capture))
>>>    			drm_mm_insert_node_in_range(&ggtt->vm.mm,
>>> @@ -562,11 +581,15 @@ static int init_ggtt(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>    						    0, ggtt->mappable_end,
>>>    						    DRM_MM_INSERT_LOW);
>>>    	}
>>> -	if (drm_mm_node_allocated(&ggtt->error_capture))
>>> +	if (drm_mm_node_allocated(&ggtt->error_capture)) {
>>> +		u64 start = ggtt->error_capture.start;
>>> +		u64 size = ggtt->error_capture.size;
>>> +
>>> +		ggtt_insert_scratch_pages(ggtt, start, size);
>>>    		drm_dbg(&ggtt->vm.i915->drm,
>>>    			"Reserved GGTT:[%llx, %llx] for use by error capture\n",
>>> -			ggtt->error_capture.start,
>>> -			ggtt->error_capture.start + ggtt->error_capture.size);
>>> +			start, start + size);
>>> +	}
>>>    	/*
>>>    	 * The upper portion of the GuC address space has a sizeable hole
>>



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