Re: [PATCH v1] drm/scheduler: Don't kill jobs in interrupt context

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:05 AM Dmitry Osipenko
<dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/13/22 01:59, Erico Nunes wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:41 PM Andrey Grodzovsky
> > <andrey.grodzovsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2022-04-12 14:20, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >>> On 4/12/22 19:51, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> >>>> On 2022-04-11 18:15, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >>>>> Interrupt context can't sleep. Drivers like Panfrost and MSM are taking
> >>>>> mutex when job is released, and thus, that code can sleep. This results
> >>>>> into "BUG: scheduling while atomic" if locks are contented while job is
> >>>>> freed. There is no good reason for releasing scheduler's jobs in IRQ
> >>>>> context, hence use normal context to fix the trouble.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am not sure this is the beast Idea to leave job's sw fence signalling
> >>>> to be
> >>>> executed in system_wq context which is prone to delays of executing
> >>>> various work items from around the system. Seems better to me to leave the
> >>>> fence signaling within the IRQ context and offload only the job freeing or,
> >>>> maybe handle rescheduling to thread context within drivers implemention
> >>>> of .free_job cb. Not really sure which is the better.
> >>> We're talking here about killing jobs when driver destroys context,
> >>> which doesn't feel like it needs to be a fast path. I could move the
> >>> signalling into drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb() and use unbound wq, but
> >>> do we really need this for a slow path?
> >>
> >>
> >> You can't move the signaling back to drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb
> >> since this will bring back the lockdep splat that 'drm/sched: Avoid
> >> lockdep spalt on killing a processes'
> >> was fixing.
> >>
> >> I see your point and i guess we can go this way too. Another way would
> >> be to add to
> >> panfrost and msm job a  work_item and reschedule to thread context from
> >> within their
> >> .free_job callbacks but that probably to cumbersome to be justified here.
> >
> > FWIW since this mentioned individual drivers, commit 'drm/sched: Avoid
> > lockdep spalt on killing a processes' also introduced problems for
> > lima.
> > There were some occurrences in our CI
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/jobs/20980982/raw .
> > Later I found it also reproducible on normal usage when just closing
> > applications, so it may be affecting users too.
> >
> > I tested this patch and looks like it fixes things for lima.
>
> This patch indeed should fix that lima bug. Feel free to give yours
> tested-by :)

Sure:
Tested-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Erico



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