+ misc maintainers On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 11:18:00AM +0100, Christian König wrote: > Am 03.12.24 um 06:00 schrieb Raag Jadav: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 10:07:59AM +0200, Raag Jadav wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 10:40:14AM -0300, André Almeida wrote: > > > > Hi Raag, > > > > > > > > Em 28/11/2024 12:37, Raag Jadav escreveu: > > > > > 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 device recovery and how they want to > > > > > recover from the available methods. > > > > > > > > > Thank you for your work. Do you think you can add the optional PID > > > > parameter, as the PID of the app that caused the reset? For SteamOS use case > > > > it has been proved to be useful to kill the fault app as well. If the reset > > > > was caused by a kthread, no PID can be provided hence it's an optional > > > > parameter. > > > Hmm, I'm not sure if it really fits here since it doesn't seem like > > > a generic usecase. > > > > > > I'd still be open for it if found useful by the drivers but perhaps > > > as an extended feature in a separate series. > > What do you think Chris, are we good to go with v10? > > I agree with Andre that the PID and maybe the new DRM client name would be > really nice to have here. > > We do have that in the device core dump we create, but if an application is > supervised by daemon for example then that would be really useful. > > On the other hand I think we should merge the documentation and code as is > and then add the PID/name later on. That is essentially a separate > discussion. So how do we proceed, perhaps through misc tree? Raag
