[Intel-xe] [PATCH] drm/xe: don't auto fall back to execlist mode if guc failed to init

[Chang, Yu bruce]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brost, Matthew <matthew.brost at intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:53 PM
> To: Chang, Yu bruce <yu.bruce.chang at intel.com>
> Cc: intel-xe at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Intel-xe] [PATCH] drm/xe: don't auto fall back to execlist mode
> if guc failed to init
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:23:13PM +0000, Chang, Bruce wrote:
> > In general, this is due to FW load failure, should just report error
> > and fail the probe so that user can easily retry again.
> >
> > Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Chang <yu.bruce.chang at intel.com>
> 
> I have not tested this but assuming you did:
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
> 
Yes, I tested on PVC and it used to fall back to execlist mode and constantly 
print out EXECLIST_STATUS. Now all those are not showing after this change.

There is still other unrelated issues during __pfx_ggtt_fini_noalloc, and need
to be fixed as below.

[  223.839894] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in ttm_resource_free+0xe4/0x140 [ttm]
[  223.847211] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000018 by task systemd-udevd/566

[  223.856141] CPU: 0 PID: 566 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.2.0-xe+ #4
[  223.864921] Hardware name: Intel Corporation WilsonCity/WilsonCity, BIOS WLYDCRB1.SYS.0020.P84.2103030140 03/03/2021
[  223.877365] Call Trace:
[  223.881707]  <TASK>
[  223.885658]  dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x85
[  223.891200]  print_report+0x499/0x4aa
[  223.896690]  ? ttm_resource_free+0xe4/0x140 [ttm]
[  223.903268]  kasan_report+0x99/0x1a0
[  223.908683]  ? ttm_resource_free+0xe4/0x140 [ttm]
[  223.915210]  ttm_resource_free+0xe4/0x140 [ttm]
[  223.921621]  ttm_bo_release+0x3e5/0x550 [ttm]
[  223.927811]  ? __pfx_ttm_bo_release+0x10/0x10 [ttm]
[  223.934530]  ? ttm_bo_kunmap+0x11f/0x160 [ttm]
[  223.940775]  ? __pfx_ggtt_fini_noalloc+0x10/0x10 [xe]

> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c | 4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c | 3 ---
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c
> > index daa433d0f2f5..8a436c95591e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c
> > @@ -455,9 +455,9 @@ static int gt_fw_domain_init(struct xe_gt *gt)
> >  			goto err_force_wake;
> >  	}
> >
> > -	/* Allow driver to load if uC init fails (likely missing firmware) */
> >  	err = xe_uc_init(&gt->uc);
> > -	XE_WARN_ON(err);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		goto err_force_wake;
> >
> >  	err = xe_uc_init_hwconfig(&gt->uc);
> >  	if (err)
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c
> > index 4ccf2b3435e1..70eabf567156 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c
> > @@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ int xe_uc_init(struct xe_uc *uc)
> >  	return 0;
> >
> >  err:
> > -	/* If any uC firmwares not found, fall back to execlists */
> > -	xe_device_guc_submission_disable(uc_to_xe(uc));
> > -
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >