[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v13 4/7] drm/i915: No TLB invalidation on suspended GT

[John Harrison]

On 10/13/2023 12:12, John Harrison wrote:
> On 10/13/2023 07:42, Cavitt, Jonathan wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harrison, John C <john.c.harrison at intel.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2023 6:08 PM
>> To: Cavitt, Jonathan <jonathan.cavitt at intel.com>; 
>> intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Cc: Gupta, saurabhg <saurabhg.gupta at intel.com>; 
>> chris.p.wilson at linux.intel.com; Iddamsetty, Aravind 
>> <aravind.iddamsetty at intel.com>; Yang, Fei <fei.yang at intel.com>; 
>> Shyti, Andi <andi.shyti at intel.com>; Das, Nirmoy 
>> <nirmoy.das at intel.com>; Krzysztofik, Janusz 
>> <janusz.krzysztofik at intel.com>; Roper, Matthew D 
>> <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>; tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com; 
>> jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 4/7] drm/i915: No TLB invalidation on 
>> suspended GT
>>> On 10/12/2023 15:38, Jonathan Cavitt wrote:
>>>> In case of GT is suspended, don't allow submission of new TLB 
>>>> invalidation
>>>> request and cancel all pending requests. The TLB entries will be
>>>> invalidated either during GuC reload or on system resume.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang at intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cavitt <jonathan.cavitt at intel.com>
>>>> CC: John Harrison <john.c.harrison at intel.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h        |  1 +
>>>>    .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c | 22 
>>>> ++++++++++++-------
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc.c         |  7 ++++++
>>>>    3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h 
>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h
>>>> index 0949628d69f8b..2b6dfe62c8f2a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.h
>>>> @@ -537,4 +537,5 @@ int intel_guc_invalidate_tlb_engines(struct 
>>>> intel_guc *guc);
>>>>    int intel_guc_invalidate_tlb_guc(struct intel_guc *guc);
>>>>    int intel_guc_tlb_invalidation_done(struct intel_guc *guc,
>>>>                        const u32 *payload, u32 len);
>>>> +void wake_up_all_tlb_invalidate(struct intel_guc *guc);
>>>>    #endif
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c 
>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
>>>> index 1377398afcdfa..3a0d20064878a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
>>>> @@ -1796,13 +1796,24 @@ static void __guc_reset_context(struct 
>>>> intel_context *ce, intel_engine_mask_t st
>>>>        intel_context_put(parent);
>>>>    }
>>>>    -void intel_guc_submission_reset(struct intel_guc *guc, 
>>>> intel_engine_mask_t stalled)
>>>> +void wake_up_all_tlb_invalidate(struct intel_guc *guc)
>>>>    {
>>>>        struct intel_guc_tlb_wait *wait;
>>>> +    unsigned long i;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (HAS_GUC_TLB_INVALIDATION(guc_to_gt(guc)->i915)) {
>>> Why the change from 'if(!is_available) return' to 'if(HAS_) {doStuff}'?
>>
>> I feel like this question has two parts, so I'll answer them separately:
>>
>> 1. Why HAS_GUC_TLB_INVALIDATION and not 
>> intel_guc_tlb_invalidation_is_available?
>>
>> Wake_up_all_tlb_invalidate is called during the suspend/resume path, 
>> specifically in the
>> middle of suspend.  It's required for it to be called here to clean 
>> up any invalidations left
>> in the queue during the suspend/resume phase because they are no 
>> longer valid requests.
>> However, the suspend/resume phase also resets GuC, so 
>> intel_guc_is_ready returns false.
>> In short, using intel_guc_invalidation_is_available was causing us to 
>> skip this code section
>> incorrectly, resulting in spurious GuC TLB invalidation timeout 
>> errors during gt reset.
> I'm not following this argument. If a reset is occurring then there is 
> no need to issue the invalidate. And the previous version was skipping 
> if GuC is in reset but this version does not. Which means it is now 
> sending invalidate requests to GuC when GuC is not able to respond and 
> therefore more likely to cause timeout errors not less likely.
Hang on. I'm getting confused between sending the request and waking up 
blocked threads. Apologies.

Okay, that makes sense now.

John.