[Nouveau] [PATCH 09/19] drm/radeon: handle lockup in delayed work, v2

[Christian König]

Am 04.08.2014 um 16:40 schrieb Maarten Lankhorst:
> op 04-08-14 16:37, Christian König schreef:
>>> It'a pain to deal with gpu reset.
>> Yeah, well that's nothing new.
>>
>>> I've now tried other solutions but that would mean reverting to the old style during gpu lockup recovery, and only running the delayed work when !lockup.
>>> But this meant that the timeout was useless to add. I think the cleanest is keeping the v2 patch, because potentially any waiting code can be called during lockup recovery.
>> The lockup code itself should never call any waiting code and V2 doesn't seem to handle a couple of cases correctly either.
>>
>> How about moving the fence waiting out of the reset code?
> What cases did I miss then?
>
> I'm curious how you want to move the fence waiting out of reset, when there are so many places that could potentially wait, like radeon_ib_get can call radeon_sa_bo_new which can do a wait, or radeon_ring_alloc that can wait on radeon_fence_wait_next, etc.

The IB test itself doesn't needs to be protected by the exclusive lock. 
Only everything between radeon_save_bios_scratch_regs and 
radeon_ring_restore.

Christian.