Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Clear pending reset requests during suspend

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:04:40PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:48:05PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:09:28PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0000, Arun Siluvery wrote:
> > > > Pending reset requests are cleared before suspending, they should be picked up
> > > > after resume when new work is submitted.
> > > > 
> > > > This is originally added as part of TDR patches for Gen8 from Tomas Elf which
> > > > are under review, as suggested by Chris this is extracted as a separate patch
> > > > as it can be useful now.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Arun Siluvery <arun.siluvery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Pulling in the discussion we had from irc: Imo the right approach is to
> > > simply wait for gpu reset to finish it's job. Since that could in turn
> > > lead to a dead gpu (if we're unlucky and init_hw failed) we'd need to do
> > > that in a loop around gem_idle. And drop dev->struct_mutex in-between.
> > > E.g.
> > > 
> > > while (busy) {
> > > 	mutex_lock();
> > > 	gpu_idle();
> > > 	mutex_unlock();
> > > 
> > > 	flush_work(reset_work);
> > > }
> > 
> > Where does the requirement for gpu_idle come from? If there is a global
> > reset in progress, it cannot queue a request to flush the work and
> > waiting on the old results will be skipped. So just wait for the global
> > reset to complete, i.e. flush_work().
> 
> Yes, but the global reset might in turn leave a wrecked gpu behind, or at
> least a non-idle one. Hence another gpu_idle on top, to make sure. If we
> change init_hw() of engines to be synchronous then we should have at least
> a WARN_ON(not_idle_but_i_expected_so()); in there ...

Does it matter on suspend? We test on resume if the GPU is usable, but
if we wanted to test on suspend then we should do

flush_work();
if (i915_terminally_wedged())
   /* oh noes */;
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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