From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>,
Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
freedreno <freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
"moderated list:ARM SMMU DRIVERS"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/arm-smmu: fix "hang" when games exit
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:15:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191029111555.GF11590@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3fc88d9-4934-0227-d9c7-b1cb37a8811e@arm.com>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:51:53PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2019-10-28 10:38 pm, Rob Clark wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:20 PM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:49:06PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > > >
> > > > When games, browser, or anything using a lot of GPU buffers exits, there
> > > > can be many hundreds or thousands of buffers to unmap and free. If the
> > > > GPU is otherwise suspended, this can cause arm-smmu to resume/suspend
> > > > for each buffer, resulting 5-10 seconds worth of reprogramming the
> > > > context bank (arm_smmu_write_context_bank()/arm_smmu_write_s2cr()/etc).
> > > > To the user it would appear that the system just locked up.
> > > >
> > > > A simple solution is to use pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() instead, so we
> > > > don't immediately suspend the SMMU device.
> > >
> > > Please can you reword the subject to be a bit more useful? The commit
> > > message is great, but the subject is a bit like "fix bug in code" to me.
> >
> > yeah, not the best $subject, but I wasn't quite sure how to fit
> > something better in a reasonable # of chars.. maybe something like:
> > "iommu/arm-smmu: optimize unmap but avoiding toggling runpm state"?
>
> FWIW, I'd be inclined to frame it as something like "avoid pathological RPM
> behaviour for unmaps".
LGTM!
Will
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-07 17:50 [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: fix "hang" when games exit Rob Clark
2019-09-10 15:01 ` Robin Murphy
2019-09-10 15:45 ` Rob Clark
2019-10-07 20:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Rob Clark
2019-10-09 10:10 ` Robin Murphy
2019-10-28 22:20 ` Will Deacon
2019-10-28 22:38 ` Rob Clark
2019-10-28 22:51 ` Robin Murphy
2019-10-29 11:15 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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