linux/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
Tvrtko Ursulin e8dbb566b3 drm/i915: Fail too long user submissions by default
A new Kconfig option CONFIG_DRM_I915_REQUEST_TIMEOUT is added, defaulting
to 20s, and this timeout is applied to all users contexts using the
previously added watchdog facility.

Result of this is that any user submission will simply fail after this
timeout, either causing a reset (for non-preemptable), or incomplete
results.

This can have an effect that workloads which used to work fine will
suddenly start failing. Even workloads comprised of short batches but in
long dependency chains can be terminated.

And because of lack of agreement on usefulness and safety of fence error
propagation this partial execution can be invisible to userspace even if
it is "listening" to returned fence status.

Another interaction is with hangcheck where care needs to be taken timeout
is not set lower or close to three times the heartbeat interval. Otherwise
a hang in any application can cause complete termination of all
submissions from unrelated clients. Any users modifying the per engine
heartbeat intervals therefore need to be aware of this potential denial of
service to avoid inadvertently enabling it.

Given all this I am personally not convinced the scheme is a good idea.
Intuitively it feels object importers would be better positioned to
enforce the time they are willing to wait for something to complete.

v2:
 * Improved commit message and Kconfig text.
 * Pull in some helper code from patch which got dropped.

v3:
 * Bump timeout to 20s to see if it helps Tigerlake.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210324121335.2307063-7-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com
2021-03-26 01:01:27 +01:00

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config DRM_I915_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
int "Default timeout for requests (ms)"
default 20000 # milliseconds
help
Configures the default timeout after which any user submissions will
be forcefully terminated.
Beware setting this value lower, or close to heartbeat interval
rounded to whole seconds times three, in order to avoid allowing
misbehaving applications causing total rendering failure in unrelated
clients.
May be 0 to disable the timeout.
config DRM_I915_FENCE_TIMEOUT
int "Timeout for unsignaled foreign fences (ms, jiffy granularity)"
default 10000 # milliseconds
help
When listening to a foreign fence, we install a supplementary timer
to ensure that we are always signaled and our userspace is able to
make forward progress. This value specifies the timeout used for an
unsignaled foreign fence.
May be 0 to disable the timeout, and rely on the foreign fence being
eventually signaled.
config DRM_I915_USERFAULT_AUTOSUSPEND
int "Runtime autosuspend delay for userspace GGTT mmaps (ms)"
default 250 # milliseconds
help
On runtime suspend, as we suspend the device, we have to revoke
userspace GGTT mmaps and force userspace to take a pagefault on
their next access. The revocation and subsequent recreation of
the GGTT mmap can be very slow and so we impose a small hysteris
that complements the runtime-pm autosuspend and provides a lower
floor on the autosuspend delay.
May be 0 to disable the extra delay and solely use the device level
runtime pm autosuspend delay tunable.
config DRM_I915_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL
int "Interval between heartbeat pulses (ms)"
default 2500 # milliseconds
help
The driver sends a periodic heartbeat down all active engines to
check the health of the GPU and undertake regular house-keeping of
internal driver state.
This is adjustable via
/sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/heartbeat_interval_ms
May be 0 to disable heartbeats and therefore disable automatic GPU
hang detection.
config DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT
int "Preempt timeout (ms, jiffy granularity)"
default 640 # milliseconds
help
How long to wait (in milliseconds) for a preemption event to occur
when submitting a new context via execlists. If the current context
does not hit an arbitration point and yield to HW before the timer
expires, the HW will be reset to allow the more important context
to execute.
This is adjustable via
/sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/preempt_timeout_ms
May be 0 to disable the timeout.
The compiled in default may get overridden at driver probe time on
certain platforms and certain engines which will be reflected in the
sysfs control.
config DRM_I915_MAX_REQUEST_BUSYWAIT
int "Busywait for request completion limit (ns)"
default 8000 # nanoseconds
help
Before sleeping waiting for a request (GPU operation) to complete,
we may spend some time polling for its completion. As the IRQ may
take a non-negligible time to setup, we do a short spin first to
check if the request will complete in the time it would have taken
us to enable the interrupt.
This is adjustable via
/sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/max_busywait_duration_ns
May be 0 to disable the initial spin. In practice, we estimate
the cost of enabling the interrupt (if currently disabled) to be
a few microseconds.
config DRM_I915_STOP_TIMEOUT
int "How long to wait for an engine to quiesce gracefully before reset (ms)"
default 100 # milliseconds
help
By stopping submission and sleeping for a short time before resetting
the GPU, we allow the innocent contexts also on the system to quiesce.
It is then less likely for a hanging context to cause collateral
damage as the system is reset in order to recover. The corollary is
that the reset itself may take longer and so be more disruptive to
interactive or low latency workloads.
This is adjustable via
/sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/stop_timeout_ms
config DRM_I915_TIMESLICE_DURATION
int "Scheduling quantum for userspace batches (ms, jiffy granularity)"
default 1 # milliseconds
help
When two user batches of equal priority are executing, we will
alternate execution of each batch to ensure forward progress of
all users. This is necessary in some cases where there may be
an implicit dependency between those batches that requires
concurrent execution in order for them to proceed, e.g. they
interact with each other via userspace semaphores. Each context
is scheduled for execution for the timeslice duration, before
switching to the next context.
This is adjustable via
/sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/timeslice_duration_ms
May be 0 to disable timeslicing.