On 15.01.24 18:54, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Hitting soft reset every time is the lucky path. Once GPU work is interrupted out of nowhere, all bets are off and it might as well trigger a full system hang next time. No hang recovery should be able to cause that under any circumstance.On 2024-01-15 18:26, Friedrich Vock wrote: [snip]The fundamental problem here is that not telling applications that something went wrong when you just canceled their work midway is an out-of-spec hack. When there is a report of real-world apps breaking because of that hack, reports of different apps working (even if it's convenient that they work) doesn't justify keeping the broken code.If the breaking apps hit multiple soft resets in a row, I've laid out a pragmatic solution which covers both cases.
If mutter needs to be robust against faults it caused itself, it should be robust against GPU resets.It's unlikely that the hangs I've seen were caused by mutter itself, more likely Mesa or amdgpu. Anyway, this will happen at some point, the reality is it hasn't yet though.
