From: Andrey Grodzovsky <Andrey.Grodzovsky@amd.com>
To: "Luben Tuikov" <luben.tuikov@amd.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com>,
"Lucas Stach" <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Emily Deng <Emily.Deng@amd.com>,
amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Maling list - DRI developers <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
steven.price@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] drm/scheduler: Avoid accessing freed bad job.
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:33:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cef1ca3-115c-44ee-9caf-6cb8d6404796@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbb2e7f0-85b7-f9e0-7875-144a8cca4993@amd.com>
On 2/11/20 7:53 PM, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 2020-02-11 4:27 p.m., Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>> On 2/11/20 10:55 AM, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>>> On 2/10/20 4:50 PM, Luben Tuikov wrote:
>>>> Hi Lucas,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for bringing awareness of this issue, publicly.
>>>>
>>>> As soon as this patch showed up back in November of 2019,
>>>> I objected to it, privately.
>>>
>>> I didn't find this objection in my mail actually
> Yes, I didn't send it to you.
>
>>>> I suggested to instead use a _list_ to store the "state" of
>>>> all jobs of the same state. Then, at any time, timeout interrupt
>>>> or whatever, we can atomically (irq spinlock) move the timeout/bad
>>>> job to the timedout/cleanup/bad job list, and wake someone up
>>>> to deal with that list asynchronously, and return from the
>>>> interrupt/etc.
>>>> immediately.
>>>
>>> Sounds a good idea to me, i think enough for us to have 2 lists,
>>> timeout list for jobs scheduled to HW and not yet completed
>>> (completion fence signaled) and cleanup list for those that did
>>> complete. This should give alternative solution to the race condition
>>> this patch was addressing without causing the break the Lucas
>>> reported. If no one objects I think i can try implement it.
>>>
>>> Andrey
>>
>> Thinking more i realize Luben is right about having also bad job list as
>> this is needed for normal job competition (by fence callback from
>> amdgpu_fence_process) and you need to decide if you move it to cleanup
>> list from timeout list or not. If it's already in bad job list - meaning
>> that it's being processed by GPU recovery code you don't touch it,
>> otherwise you move it to cleanup list where it will be freed eventually
>> by invocation of drm_sched_get_cleanup_job.
> Yep...
>
> Perhaps fewer lists, than "timeout", "bad" and "cleanup" could be had.
> I'd also name the "bad" list as "recovery" list, as that is what would
> be done to commands on that list.
>
> "Timeout" is a status "timed-out", so perhaps just set the timeout
> flag and move it to a "done" list. (Note that the command can still
> complete asynchronously while on that list and while it has status
> "timed-out'.)
>
> The idea is that,
> 1) it avoid contention and races when more than one context
> can update the job at the same time, and
> 2) easy to process all jobs of a certain state and/or
> move them around, etc.
>
> Let's discuss it and come up with a plan. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Luben
Sure, let me maybe come up with a draft patch so we have more concrete
stuff to discuss and review.
Andrey
>
>
>
>
>> Andrey
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Then in due time, if any more interrupts or whatnot take place,
>>>> the job will either be in the timeout list or not. If it it,
>>>> then the instigator backs off as someone else (the list handler) will/is
>>>> awake and handling it (obviously a state variable may be kept as well).
>>>>
>>>> This draws somewhat from my days with iSCSI, SCSI and SAS, 15 years ago,
>>>> where a device can complete a job (task) at anytime regardless
>>>> of what the SCSI layer "thinks" the task's state is: timed-out, aborted,
>>>> whatever. It is a very simple and elegant solution which generalizes
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Luben
>>>>
>>>> On 2020-02-10 11:55 a.m., Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>>>>> Lucas - Ping on my question and also I attached this temporary
>>>>> solution for etnaviv to clarify my point. If that something
>>>>> acceptable for now at least i can do the same for v3d where it
>>>>> requires a bit more code changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrey
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/6/20 10:49 AM, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>>>>>>> Well a revert would break our driver.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The real solution is that somebody needs to sit down, gather ALL
>>>>>>> the requirements and then come up with a solution which is clean
>>>>>>> and works for everyone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>> I can to take on this as indeed our general design on this becomes
>>>>>> more and more entangled as GPU reset scenarios grow in complexity
>>>>>> (at least in AMD driver). Currently I am on a high priority
>>>>>> internal task which should take me around a week or 2 to finish and
>>>>>> after that I can get to it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regarding temporary solution - I looked into v3d and etnaviv use
>>>>>> cases and we in AMD actually face the same scenario where we decide
>>>>>> to skip HW reset if the guilty job did finish by the time we are
>>>>>> processing the timeout (see amdgpu_device_gpu_recover and
>>>>>> skip_hw_reset goto) - the difference is we always call
>>>>>> drm_sched_stop/start irrespectively of whether we are going to
>>>>>> actually HW reset or not (same as extend timeout). I wonder if
>>>>>> something like this can be done also for ve3 and etnaviv ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrey
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-25 20:51 [PATCH v4] drm/scheduler: Avoid accessing freed bad job Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-11-25 20:51 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-11-25 21:44 ` Deng, Emily
2019-11-25 21:44 ` Deng, Emily
2019-11-26 0:09 ` Grodzovsky, Andrey
2019-11-26 0:09 ` Grodzovsky, Andrey
[not found] ` <MWHPR12MB1453C6FC45A83482232CA3EDEA450-Gy0DoCVfaSWZBIDmKHdw+wdYzm3356FpvxpqHgZTriW3zl9H0oFU5g@public.gmane.org>
2019-11-26 15:36 ` Deucher, Alexander
2019-11-26 15:36 ` Deucher, Alexander
2019-11-26 15:37 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-11-26 15:37 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
[not found] ` <b8b716a7-e235-38b2-ea6d-0a21881fa64e-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
2019-11-27 0:41 ` Deng, Emily
2019-11-27 0:41 ` Deng, Emily
2019-12-02 19:24 ` Deng, Emily
2019-12-03 19:10 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-12-03 19:44 ` Deucher, Alexander
2019-12-03 19:57 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-12-03 19:59 ` Deucher, Alexander
2019-12-03 20:32 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2019-12-03 20:58 ` Deng, Emily
2019-12-03 19:53 ` Deng, Emily
2020-02-05 18:24 ` Lucas Stach
2020-02-06 11:10 ` Lucas Stach
2020-02-06 11:49 ` Christian König
2020-02-06 14:49 ` Alex Deucher
2020-02-06 14:51 ` Christian König
2020-02-06 15:49 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-02-10 16:55 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-02-10 21:50 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-02-11 15:55 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-02-11 21:27 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-02-12 0:53 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-02-12 16:33 ` Andrey Grodzovsky [this message]
2020-07-21 11:03 ` Lucas Stach
2020-07-21 13:36 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-07-21 13:39 ` Christian König
2020-07-21 13:42 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-07-21 18:29 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 0/6] Allow to extend the timeout without jobs disappearing Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] drm/scheduler: "node" --> "list" Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 9:44 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] gpu/drm: ring_mirror_list --> pending_list Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 9:47 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 16:42 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] drm/scheduler: Job timeout handler returns status Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 4:41 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-25 9:50 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 16:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 11:04 ` Steven Price
2020-11-25 11:15 ` Lucas Stach
2020-11-25 11:22 ` Steven Price
2020-11-25 11:47 ` Lucas Stach
2020-11-25 12:41 ` Christian König
2020-11-26 15:06 ` Andrey Grodzovsky
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] drm/scheduler: Essentialize the job done callback Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 9:51 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] drm/amdgpu: Don't hardcode thread name length Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 9:55 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 17:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-11-26 8:11 ` Christian König
2020-11-25 3:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] drm/sched: Make use of a "done" thread Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 10:10 ` Christian König
2020-11-26 0:24 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-11-25 11:09 ` Steven Price
2020-11-26 0:30 ` Luben Tuikov
2020-02-07 15:26 ` [PATCH v4] drm/scheduler: Avoid accessing freed bad job Daniel Vetter
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