This interface is not working as it should.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
index bb28f31bff6f..ecd4afab4adb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
@@ -489,10 +489,21 @@ void drm_sched_start(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool full_recovery)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_start);
/**
- * drm_sched_resubmit_jobs - helper to relaunch jobs from the pending list
+ * drm_sched_resubmit_jobs - Deprecated, don't use in new code!
*
* @sched: scheduler instance
*
+ * Re-submitting jobs was a concept AMD came up as cheap way to implement
+ * recovery after a job timeout.
+ *
+ * This turned out to be not working very well. First of all there are many
+ * problem with the dma_fence implementation and requirements. Either the
+ * implementation is risking deadlocks with core memory management or violating
+ * documented implementation details of the dma_fence object.
+ *
+ * Drivers can still save and restore their state for recovery operations, but
+ * we shouldn't make this a general scheduler feature around the dma_fence
+ * interface.
*/
void drm_sched_resubmit_jobs(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
{
--
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