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Commit 36703e79 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Break modeset deadlocks on reset

Trying to do a modeset from within a reset is fraught with danger. We
can fall into a cyclic deadlock where the modeset is waiting on a
previous modeset that is waiting on a request, and since the GPU hung
that request completion is waiting on the reset. As modesetting doesn't
allow its locks to be broken and restarted, or for its *own* reset
mechanism to take over the display, we have to do something very
evil instead. If we detect that we are stuck waiting to prepare the
display reset (by using a very simple timeout), resort to cancelling all
in-flight requests and throwing the user data into /dev/null, which is
marginally better than the driver locking up and keeping that data to
itself.

This is not a fix; this is just a workaround that unbreaks machines
until we can resolve the deadlock in a way that doesn't lose data!

v2: Move the retirement from set-wegded to the i915_reset() error path,
after which we no longer any delayed worker cleanup for
i915_handle_error()
v3: C abuse for syntactic sugar
v4: Cover all waits with the timeout to catch more driver breakage

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99093


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170622105625.16952-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
parent ae25ecea
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