Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 13/22] drm/amdgpu: install stub fence into potential unused fence pointers

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On 01/09/2023 07:02, Christian König wrote:
Am 31.08.23 um 20:55 schrieb Chia-I Wu:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 03:26:28PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
Am 31.08.23 um 12:56 schrieb Greg KH:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27:27PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
Am 30.08.23 um 20:53 schrieb Chia-I Wu:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 6:24 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Lang Yu <Lang.Yu@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 187916e6ed9d0c3b3abc27429f7a5f8c936bd1f0 ]

When using cpu to update page tables, vm update fences are unused.
Install stub fence into these fence pointers instead of NULL
to avoid NULL dereference when calling dma_fence_wait() on them.

Suggested-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lang Yu <Lang.Yu@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
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    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 6 ++++--
    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
We start getting this warning spew on chromeos
Yeah because the older kernels still kept track of the last VM fence in the
syncobj.

This patch here should probably not have been back ported.

Why was that done anyway? The upstream commit doesn't have a CC stable and this is only a bug fix for a new feature not present on older kernels.
It is part of the AUTOSEL process.
Could we prevent patches from being backported by adding a Fixes: tag?
Yes, that will show exactly where the patch should be backported to.
This is also AUTOSEL'ed to 5.15.  That might need a revert as well,
depending on when the amdgpu feature landed.

Both the feature and the bug fix landed in 6.5.

The bug fix should have never been backported to any older kernel at all as far as I can see.

Regards,
Christian.

I can confirm I've also started to get this warning hundreds of times per second having upgraded from 5.15.123 to 5.15.130. There's also a report from someone else of exactly the same on 5.15.128, here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2820

Eddie



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