On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 9:58 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 9:07 AM Maarten Lankhorst
> <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Op 30-06-2021 om 18:44 schreef Ville Syrjala:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The conversion to ww mutexes failed to address the fence code which
> > > already returns -EDEADLK when we run out of fences. Ww mutexes on
> > > the other hand treat -EDEADLK as an internal errno value indicating
> > > a need to restart the operation due to a deadlock. So now when the
> > > fence code returns -EDEADLK the higher level code erroneously
> > > restarts everything instead of returning the error to userspace
> > > as is expected.
> > >
> > > To remedy this let's switch the fence code to use a different errno
> > > value for this. -ENOBUFS seems like a semi-reasonable unique choice.
> > > Apart from igt the only user of this I could find is sna, and even
> > > there all we do is dump the current fence registers from debugfs
> > > into the X server log. So no user visible functionality is affected.
> > > If we really cared about preserving this we could of course convert
> > > back to -EDEADLK higher up, but doesn't seem like that's worth
> > > the hassle here.
> > >
> > > Not quite sure which commit specifically broke this, but I'll
> > > just attribute it to the general gem ww mutex work.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Testcase: igt/gem_pread/exhaustion
> > > Testcase: igt/gem_pwrite/basic-exhaustion
> > > Testcase: igt/gem_fenced_exec_thrash/too-many-fences
> > > Fixes: 80f0b679d6f0 ("drm/i915: Add an implementation for i915_gem_ww_ctx locking, v2.")
> > > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c
> > > index cac7f3f44642..f8948de72036 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c
> > > @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static struct i915_fence_reg *fence_find(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
> > > if (intel_has_pending_fb_unpin(ggtt->vm.i915))
> > > return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
> > >
> > > - return ERR_PTR(-EDEADLK);
> > > + return ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS);
> > > }
> > >
> > > int __i915_vma_pin_fence(struct i915_vma *vma)
> >
> > Makes sense..
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Is it a slightly more reent commit? Might probably be the part that converts execbuffer to use ww locks.
>
> - please cc: dri-devel on anything gem/gt related.
> - this should probably be ENOSPC or something like that for at least a
> seeming retention of errno consistentcy:
>
> https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/gpu/drm-uapi.html#recommended-ioctl-return-values
Other option would be to map that back to EDEADLK in the execbuf ioctl
somewhere, so we retain a distinct errno code.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
