Re: Amdgpu module is references even after unbinding the vtcon

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Hi

Am 24.01.23 um 17:36 schrieb Alex Deucher:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:15 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

Am 24.01.23 um 15:12 schrieb Christian König:
Hi Thomas,

we ran into a problem with the general fbcon/fbdev implementation and
though that you might have some idea.

What happens is the following:
1. We load amdgpu and get our normal fbcon.
2. fbcon allocates a dump BO as backing store for the console.
3. GDM/X/Applications start, new framebuffers are created BOs imported,
exported etc...
4. Somehow X or GDM iterated over all the framebuffer objects the
kernels knows about and export them as DMA-buf.
5. Application/X/GDM are stopped, handles closed, framebuffers released
etc...
6. We unbind vtcon.

At this point the amdgpu module usually has a reference count of 0 and
can be unloaded, but since GDM/X/Whoever iterated over all the known
framebuffers and exported them as DMA-buf (for whatever reason idk) we
now still have an exported DMA-buf and with it a reference to the module.

Any idea how we could prevent that?

No real clue, sorry.

But does it change if you use a shadow buffer on top of the amdgpu BO?
Set prefer_shadow_fbdev = 1. [1]   I once tried to run generic fbdev
without prefer_shadow_fbdev and it never worked. I suspected that some
reference counting got wrong, but could never pin it down.  Maybe your
issue is similar.

Is that equivalent to setting mode_config.prefer_shadow = 1?  If so,
we already do that.

Yes it is, unfortunately.

Best regards
Thomas


Alex


That said, generic fbdev is not so super-optimal for TTM-based drivers.
I'm working on improving that, but it's not there yet.

Best regards
Thomas


[1]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h#L890


Thanks,
Christian.

--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev

--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev

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