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From:   Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 08:56:40 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC] drm/scheduler: Unwrap job dependencies
To:     =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=C3=B6nig?= <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>,
        Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>,
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:58=E2=80=AFAM Christian K=C3=B6nig <christian.koen=
ig@amd.com> wrote:
>
> Am 05.12.23 um 16:41 schrieb Rob Clark:
> > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 10:46=E2=80=AFPM Christian K=C3=B6nig
> > <christian.koenig@amd.com> wrote:
> >> Am 04.12.23 um 22:54 schrieb Rob Clark:
> >>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:30=E2=80=AFPM Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
> >>>> [SNIP]
> >>> So, this patch turns out to blow up spectacularly with dma_fence
> >>> refcnt underflows when I enable DRIVER_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE .. I think,
> >>> because it starts unwrapping fence chains, possibly in parallel with
> >>> fence signaling on the retire path.  Is it supposed to be permissible
> >>> to unwrap a fence chain concurrently?
> >> The DMA-fence chain object and helper functions were designed so that
> >> concurrent accesses to all elements are always possible.
> >>
> >> See dma_fence_chain_walk() and dma_fence_chain_get_prev() for example.
> >> dma_fence_chain_walk() starts with a reference to the current fence (t=
he
> >> anchor of the walk) and tries to grab an up to date reference on the
> >> previous fence in the chain. Only after that reference is successfully
> >> acquired we drop the reference to the anchor where we started.
> >>
> >> Same for dma_fence_array_first(), dma_fence_array_next(). Here we hold=
 a
> >> reference to the array which in turn holds references to each fence
> >> inside the array until it is destroyed itself.
> >>
> >> When this blows up we have somehow mixed up the references somewhere.
> > That's what it looked like to me, but wanted to make sure I wasn't
> > overlooking something subtle.  And in this case, the fence actually
> > should be the syncobj timeline point fence, not the fence chain.
> > Virtgpu has essentially the same logic (there we really do want to
> > unwrap fences so we can pass host fences back to host rather than
> > waiting in guest), I'm not sure if it would blow up in the same way.
>
> Well do you have a backtrace of what exactly happens?
>
> Maybe we have some _put() before _get() or something like this.

I hacked up something to store the backtrace in dma_fence_release()
(and leak the block so the backtrace would still be around later when
dma_fence_get/put was later called) and ended up with:

[  152.811360] freed at:
[  152.813718]  dma_fence_release+0x30/0x134
[  152.817865]  dma_fence_put+0x38/0x98 [gpu_sched]
[  152.822657]  drm_sched_job_add_dependency+0x160/0x18c [gpu_sched]
[  152.828948]  drm_sched_job_add_syncobj_dependency+0x58/0x88 [gpu_sched]
[  152.835770]  msm_ioctl_gem_submit+0x580/0x1160 [msm]
[  152.841070]  drm_ioctl_kernel+0xec/0x16c
[  152.845132]  drm_ioctl+0x2e8/0x3f4
[  152.848646]  vfs_ioctl+0x30/0x50
[  152.851982]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x80/0xb4
[  152.856039]  invoke_syscall+0x8c/0x120
[  152.859919]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xdc
[  152.864777]  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x30
[  152.868207]  el0_svc+0x8c/0xd8
[  152.871365]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c
[  152.875771]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

I suppose that doesn't guarantee that this was the problematic put.
But dropping this patch to unwrap the fence makes the problem go
away..

BR,
-R

> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
> >
> > BR,
> > -R
> >
> >> Regards,
> >> Christian.
> >>
> >>> BR,
> >>> -R
>