[Intel-xe] [RFC v2 5/5] drm/xe/RAS: send multicast event on occurrence of an error

[Aravind Iddamsetty]

On 11/12/23 20:58, Tomer Tayar wrote:
> On 10/11/2023 14:27, Tomer Tayar wrote:
>> On 20/10/2023 18:58, Aravind Iddamsetty wrote:
>>> Whenever a correctable or an uncorrectable error happens an event is sent
>>> to the corresponding listeners of these groups.
>>>
>>> v2: Rebase
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aravind Iddamsetty<aravind.iddamsetty at linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_error.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>    1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_error.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_error.c
>>> index bab6d4cf0b69..b0befb5e01cb 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_error.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_hw_error.c
>>> @@ -786,6 +786,37 @@ xe_soc_hw_error_handler(struct xe_tile *tile, const enum hardware_error hw_err)
>>>    				(HARDWARE_ERROR_MAX << 1) + 1);
>>>    }
>>>    
>>> +static void
>>> +generate_netlink_event(struct xe_device *xe, const enum hardware_error hw_err)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct sk_buff *msg;
>>> +	void *hdr;
>>> +
>>> +	if (!xe->drm.drm_genl_family.module)
>>> +		return;
>>> +
>>> +	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>> +	if (!msg) {
>>> +		drm_dbg_driver(&xe->drm, "couldn't allocate memory for error multicast event\n");
>>> +		return;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, 0, 0, &xe->drm.drm_genl_family, 0, DRM_RAS_CMD_ERROR_EVENT);
>>> +	if (!hdr) {
>>> +		drm_dbg_driver(&xe->drm, "mutlicast msg buffer is small\n");
>>> +		nlmsg_free(msg);
>>> +		return;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
>>> +
>>> +	genlmsg_multicast(&xe->drm.drm_genl_family, msg, 0,
>>> +			  hw_err ?
>>> +			  DRM_GENL_MCAST_UNCORR_ERR
>>> +			  : DRM_GENL_MCAST_CORR_ERR,
>>> +			  GFP_ATOMIC);
>> I agree that hiding/wrapping any netlink/genetlink API/macro with a DRM
>> helper would be sometimes redundant,
>> and that in some cases the specific DRM driver would have to "dirt its
>> hands" and deal with netlink (e.g. fill_error_details() in patch #3).
>> However maybe here a DRM helper would have been useful, so we won't see
>> a copy of this sequence in other DRM drivers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tomer
> After rethinking, it is possible that different DRM drivers will need 
> some flexibility when it comes to calling genlmsg_put(), as they might 
> want to have more of this call in order to attach some data related to 
> the error indication.
> In that case, adding a DRM function that wraps it may me redundant.
> What do you think?
I think we can expose this base level call to every drm driver and if it wants
to add any custom msg would define it own helper that should be ok i believe.


Thanks,
Aravind.
>
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>    static void
>>>    xe_hw_error_source_handler(struct xe_tile *tile, const enum hardware_error hw_err)
>>>    {
>>> @@ -849,6 +880,8 @@ xe_hw_error_source_handler(struct xe_tile *tile, const enum hardware_error hw_er
>>>    	}
>>>    
>>>    	xe_mmio_write32(gt, DEV_ERR_STAT_REG(hw_err), errsrc);
>>> +
>>> +	generate_netlink_event(tile_to_xe(tile), hw_err);
>>>    unlock:
>>>    	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tile_to_xe(tile)->irq.lock, flags);
>>>    }