On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 08:26:37PM +0530, Aravind Iddamsetty wrote: > On 15/11/24 10:37, Raag Jadav wrote: > > Introduce device wedged event, which notifies userspace of 'wedged' > > (hanged/unusable) state of the DRM device through a uevent. This is > > useful especially in cases where the device is no longer operating as > > expected and has become unrecoverable from driver context. Purpose of > > this implementation is to provide drivers a generic way to recover with > > the help of userspace intervention without taking any drastic measures > > in the driver. > > > > A 'wedged' device is basically a dead device that needs attention. The > > uevent is the notification that is sent to userspace along with a hint > > about what could possibly be attempted to recover the device and bring > > it back to usable state. Different drivers may have different ideas of > > a 'wedged' device depending on their hardware implementation, and hence > > the vendor agnostic nature of the event. It is up to the drivers to > > decide when they see the need for recovery and how they want to recover > > from the available methods. > > > > Prerequisites > > ------------- > > > > The driver, before opting for recovery, needs to make sure that the > > 'wedged' device doesn't harm the system as a whole by taking care of the > > prerequisites. Necessary actions must include disabling DMA to system > > memory as well as any communication channels with other devices. Further, > > the driver must ensure that all dma_fences are signalled and any device > > state that the core kernel might depend on are cleaned up. Once the event > > is sent, the device must be kept in 'wedged' state until the recovery is > > performed. New accesses to the device (IOCTLs) should be blocked, > > preferably with an error code that resembles the type of failure the > > device has encountered. This will signify the reason for wegeding which > > can be reported to the application if needed. > > should we even drop the mmaps we created? Whatever is required for a clean recovery, yes. Although how would this play out? Do we risk loosing display? Or any other possible side-effects? Raag
