The general concept was that intel_timeline.active_count was locked by
the intel_timeline.mutex. The exception was for power management, where
the engine->kernel_context->timeline could be manipulated under the
global wakeref.mutex.
This was quite solid, as we always manipulated the timeline only while
we held an engine wakeref.
And then we started retiring requests outside of struct_mutex, only
using the timelines.active_list and the timeline->mutex. There we
started manipulating intel_timeline.active_count outside of an engine
wakeref, and so introduced a race between __engine_park() and
intel_gt_retire_requests(), a race that could result in the
engine->kernel_context not being added to the active timelines and so
losing requests, which caused us to keep the system permanently powered
up [and unloadable].
The race would be easy to close if we could take the engine wakeref for
the timeline before we retire -- except timelines are not bound to any
engine and so we would need to keep all active engines awake. The
alternative is to guard intel_timeline_enter/intel_timeline_exit for use
outside of the timeline->mutex.
Fixes: e5dadff4b093 ("drm/i915: Protect request retirement with timeline->mutex")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c | 8 ++---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c | 34 +++++++++++++++----
.../gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
index a79e6efb31a2..7559d6373f49 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ long intel_gt_retire_requests_timeout(struct intel_gt *gt, long timeout)
continue;
intel_timeline_get(tl);
- GEM_BUG_ON(!tl->active_count);
- tl->active_count++; /* pin the list element */
+ GEM_BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&tl->active_count));
+ atomic_inc(&tl->active_count); /* pin the list element */
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timelines->lock, flags);
if (timeout > 0) {
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ long intel_gt_retire_requests_timeout(struct intel_gt *gt, long timeout)
/* Resume iteration after dropping lock */
list_safe_reset_next(tl, tn, link);
- if (!--tl->active_count)
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&tl->active_count))
list_del(&tl->link);
mutex_unlock(&tl->mutex);
/* Defer the final release to after the spinlock */
if (refcount_dec_and_test(&tl->kref.refcount)) {
- GEM_BUG_ON(tl->active_count);
+ GEM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&tl->active_count));
list_add(&tl->link, &free);
}
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
index 16a9e88d93de..4f914f0d5eab 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
@@ -334,15 +334,33 @@ void intel_timeline_enter(struct intel_timeline *tl)
struct intel_gt_timelines *timelines = &tl->gt->timelines;
unsigned long flags;
+ /*
+ * Pretend we are serialised by the timeline->mutex.
+ *
+ * While generally true, there are a few exceptions to the rule
+ * for the engine->kernel_context being used to manage power
+ * transitions. As the engine_park may be called from under any
+ * timeline, it uses the power mutex as a global serialisation
+ * lock to prevent any other request entering its timeline.
+ *
+ * The rule is generally tl->mutex, otherwise engine->wakeref.mutex.
+ *
+ * However, intel_gt_retire_request() does not know which engine
+ * it is retiring along and so cannot partake in the engine-pm
+ * barrier, and there we use the tl->active_count as a means to
+ * pin the timeline in the active_list while the locks are dropped.
+ * Ergo, as that is outside of the engine-pm barrier, we need to
+ * use atomic to manipulate tl->active_count.
+ */
lockdep_assert_held(&tl->mutex);
-
GEM_BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&tl->pin_count));
- if (tl->active_count++)
+
+ if (atomic_add_unless(&tl->active_count, 1, 0))
return;
- GEM_BUG_ON(!tl->active_count); /* overflow? */
spin_lock_irqsave(&timelines->lock, flags);
- list_add(&tl->link, &timelines->active_list);
+ if (!atomic_fetch_inc(&tl->active_count))
+ list_add(&tl->link, &timelines->active_list);
