Fence error propagation is sketchy at best. Instead of explicitly handling
fences which might have errors set in the code which is aware of errors, we
just kick them down the line and hope that userspace knows what to do when
a wait eventually fails. This is sketchy at best because most userspace
isn't prepared to handle errors in those places. To make things worse, it
allows errors to propagate across processes in unpredictable ways. This is
causing hangs in one client to kill X11.
Unfortunately, there's no quick path from here to there thanks to the fact
that we're now running the command parser asynchronously and relying on
fence errors for when it fails. This series first gets rid of asynchronous
command parsing and then cleans up from there. There was never any real
use-case for asynchronous parsing and the platforms that rely heavily on
the command parser are old enough (Gen7) that, when we changed the way the
command parser works, it wasn't really a change anyone was asking for
anyway.
I think we probably want this whole mess back-ported. I'm happy to take
suggestions on the strategy there because the history there is a bit
annoying and I'm not 100% sure where the Linux release cuts land. In any
case, I'm happy to make a version of this series per-release if needed for
Greg to back-port.
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@xxxxxxxxx>
Jason Ekstrand (5):
drm/i915: Revert "drm/i915/gem: Asynchronous cmdparser"
drm/i915: Remove allow_alloc from i915_gem_object_get_sg*
drm/i915: Drop error handling from dma_fence_work
Revert "drm/i915: Propagate errors on awaiting already signaled
fences"
Revert "drm/i915: Skip over MI_NOOP when parsing"
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_clflush.c | 4 +-
.../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 227 +-----------------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object.h | 10 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pages.c | 21 +-
.../i915/gem/selftests/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 4 +
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c | 199 ++++++++-------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 7 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 8 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_sw_fence_work.c | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_sw_fence_work.h | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c | 3 +-
12 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 351 deletions(-)
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