This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/i915: Retry gtt fault when out of fence registers
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-i915-retry-gtt-fault-when-out-of-fence-registers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:28:01 +0300
Subject: drm/i915: Retry gtt fault when out of fence registers
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From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e339c6d628fe66c9b64bf31040a55770952aec57 upstream.
If we can't find a free fence register to handle a fault in the GMADR
range just return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE without populating the PTE so that
userspace will retry the access and trigger another fault. Eventually
we should find a free fence and the fault will get properly handled.
A further improvement idea might be to reserve a fence (or one per CPU?)
for the express purpose of handling faults without having to retry. But
that would require some additional work.
Looks like this may have gotten broken originally by
commit 39965b376601 ("drm/i915: don't trash the gtt when running out of fences")
as that changed the errno to -EDEADLK which wasn't handle by the gtt
fault code either. But later in commit 2feeb52859fc ("drm/i915/gt: Fix
-EDEADLK handling regression") I changed it again to -ENOBUFS as -EDEADLK
was now getting used for the ww mutex dance. So this fix only makes
sense after that last commit.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/9479
Fixes: 2feeb52859fc ("drm/i915/gt: Fix -EDEADLK handling regression")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231012132801.16292-1-ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 7f403caabe811b88ab0de3811ff3f4782c415761)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ static vm_fault_t i915_error_to_vmf_faul
case 0:
case -EAGAIN:
case -ENOSPC: /* transient failure to evict? */
+ case -ENOBUFS: /* temporarily out of fences? */
case -ERESTARTSYS:
case -EINTR:
case -EBUSY:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/drm-i915-retry-gtt-fault-when-out-of-fence-registers.patch
