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Ah!

So we can't allocate memory while scheduling anything because it could 
be that memory reclaim is waiting for the scheduler to finish pushing 
things to the hardware, right?

Indeed a nice problem, haven't noticed that one.

Christian.

Am 12.05.20 um 18:27 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:20 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:56 PM Christian König
>> <christian.koenig@amd.com> wrote:
>>> Hui what? Of hand that doesn't looks correct to me.
>> It's not GFP_ATOMIC, it's just that GFP_ATOMIC is the only shotgun we
>> have to avoid direct reclaim. And direct reclaim might need to call
>> into your mmu notifier, which might need to wait on a fence, which is
>> never going to happen because your scheduler is stuck.
>>
>> Note that all the explanations for the deadlocks and stuff I'm trying
>> to hunt here are in the other patches, the driver ones are more
>> informational, so I left these here rather bare-bones to shut up
>> lockdep so I can get through the entire driver and all major areas
>> (scheduler, reset, modeset code).
>>
>> Now you can do something like GFP_NOFS, but the only reasons that
>> works is because the direct reclaim annotations
>> (fs_reclaim_acquire/release) only validates against __GFP_FS, and not
>> against any of the other flags. We should probably add some lockdep
>> annotations so that __GFP_RECLAIM is annotated against the
>> __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map lockdep map I've recently
>> added for mmu notifiers. End result (assuming I'm not mixing anything
>> up here, this is all rather tricky stuff): GFP_ATOMIC is the only kind
>> of memory allocation you can do.
>>
>>> Why the heck should this be an atomic context? If that's correct
>>> allocating memory is the least of the problems we have.
>> It's not about atomic, it's !__GFP_RECLAIM. Which more or less is
>> GFP_ATOMIC. Correct fix is probably GFP_ATOMIC + a mempool for the
>> scheduler fixes so that if you can't allocate them for some reason,
>> you at least know that your scheduler should eventually retire retire
>> some of them, which you can then pick up from the mempool to guarantee
>> forward progress.
>>
>> But I really didn't dig into details of the code, this was just a quick hack.
>>
>> So sleeping and taking all kinds of locks (but not all, e.g.
>> dma_resv_lock and drm_modeset_lock are no-go) is still totally ok.
>> Just think
>>
>> #define GFP_NO_DIRECT_RECLAIM GFP_ATOMIC
> Maybe slightly different take that's easier to understand: You've
> already made the observation that anything holding adev->notifier_lock
> isn't allowed to allocate memory (well GFP_ATOMIC is ok, like here).
>
> Only thing I'm adding is that the situation is a lot worse. Plus the
> lockdep annotations to help us catch these issues.
> -Daniel
>
>> Cheers, Daniel
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>> Am 12.05.20 um 10:59 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>>> My dma-fence lockdep annotations caught an inversion because we
>>>> allocate memory where we really shouldn't:
>>>>
>>>>        kmem_cache_alloc+0x2b/0x6d0
>>>>        amdgpu_fence_emit+0x30/0x330 [amdgpu]
>>>>        amdgpu_ib_schedule+0x306/0x550 [amdgpu]
>>>>        amdgpu_job_run+0x10f/0x260 [amdgpu]
>>>>        drm_sched_main+0x1b9/0x490 [gpu_sched]
>>>>        kthread+0x12e/0x150
>>>>
>>>> Trouble right now is that lockdep only validates against GFP_FS, which
>>>> would be good enough for shrinkers. But for mmu_notifiers we actually
>>>> need !GFP_ATOMIC, since they can be called from any page laundering,
>>>> even if GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO are set.
>>>>
>>>> I guess we should improve the lockdep annotations for
>>>> fs_reclaim_acquire/release.
>>>>
>>>> Ofc real fix is to properly preallocate this fence and stuff it into
>>>> the amdgpu job structure. But GFP_ATOMIC gets the lockdep splat out of
>>>> the way.
>>>>
>>>> v2: Two more allocations in scheduler paths.
>>>>
>>>> Frist one:
>>>>
>>>>        __kmalloc+0x58/0x720
>>>>        amdgpu_vmid_grab+0x100/0xca0 [amdgpu]
>>>>        amdgpu_job_dependency+0xf9/0x120 [amdgpu]
>>>>        drm_sched_entity_pop_job+0x3f/0x440 [gpu_sched]
>>>>        drm_sched_main+0xf9/0x490 [gpu_sched]
>>>>
>>>> Second one:
>>>>
>>>>        kmem_cache_alloc+0x2b/0x6d0
>>>>        amdgpu_sync_fence+0x7e/0x110 [amdgpu]
>>>>        amdgpu_vmid_grab+0x86b/0xca0 [amdgpu]
>>>>        amdgpu_job_dependency+0xf9/0x120 [amdgpu]
>>>>        drm_sched_entity_pop_job+0x3f/0x440 [gpu_sched]
>>>>        drm_sched_main+0xf9/0x490 [gpu_sched]
>>>>
>>>> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
>>>> Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
>>>> Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
>>>> Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
>>>> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
>>>> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c | 2 +-
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c   | 2 +-
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sync.c  | 2 +-
>>>>    3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
>>>> index d878fe7fee51..055b47241bb1 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
>>>> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ int amdgpu_fence_emit(struct amdgpu_ring *ring, struct dma_fence **f,
>>>>        uint32_t seq;
>>>>        int r;
>>>>
>>>> -     fence = kmem_cache_alloc(amdgpu_fence_slab, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +     fence = kmem_cache_alloc(amdgpu_fence_slab, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>>        if (fence == NULL)
>>>>                return -ENOMEM;
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
>>>> index fe92dcd94d4a..fdcd6659f5ad 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
>>>> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int amdgpu_vmid_grab_idle(struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
>>>>        if (ring->vmid_wait && !dma_fence_is_signaled(ring->vmid_wait))
>>>>                return amdgpu_sync_fence(sync, ring->vmid_wait, false);
>>>>
>>>> -     fences = kmalloc_array(sizeof(void *), id_mgr->num_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +     fences = kmalloc_array(sizeof(void *), id_mgr->num_ids, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>>        if (!fences)
>>>>                return -ENOMEM;
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sync.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sync.c
>>>> index b87ca171986a..330476cc0c86 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sync.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sync.c
>>>> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ int amdgpu_sync_fence(struct amdgpu_sync *sync, struct dma_fence *f,
>>>>        if (amdgpu_sync_add_later(sync, f, explicit))
>>>>                return 0;
>>>>
>>>> -     e = kmem_cache_alloc(amdgpu_sync_slab, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +     e = kmem_cache_alloc(amdgpu_sync_slab, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>>        if (!e)
>>>>                return -ENOMEM;
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Vetter
>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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