drm/i915: Fix premature release of request's reusable memory
Infinite waits for completion of GPU activity have been observed in CI,
mostly inside __i915_active_wait(), triggered by igt@gem_barrier_race or
igt@perf@stress-open-close. Root cause analysis, based of ftrace dumps
generated with a lot of extra trace_printk() calls added to the code,
revealed loops of request dependencies being accidentally built,
preventing the requests from being processed, each waiting for completion
of another one's activity.
After we substitute a new request for a last active one tracked on a
timeline, we set up a dependency of our new request to wait on completion
of current activity of that previous one. While doing that, we must take
care of keeping the old request still in memory until we use its
attributes for setting up that await dependency, or we can happen to set
up the await dependency on an unrelated request that already reuses the
memory previously allocated to the old one, already released. Combined
with perf adding consecutive kernel context remote requests to different
user context timelines, unresolvable loops of await dependencies can be
built, leading do infinite waits.
We obtain a pointer to the previous request to wait upon when we
substitute it with a pointer to our new request in an active tracker,
e.g. in intel_timeline.last_request. In some processing paths we protect
that old request from being freed before we use it by getting a reference
to it under RCU protection, but in others, e.g. __i915_request_commit()
-> __i915_request_add_to_timeline() -> __i915_request_ensure_ordering(),
we don't. But anyway, since the requests' memory is SLAB_FAILSAFE_BY_RCU,
that RCU protection is not sufficient against reuse of memory.
We could protect i915_request's memory from being prematurely reused by
calling its release function via call_rcu() and using rcu_read_lock()
consequently, as proposed in v1. However, that approach leads to
significant (up to 10 times) increase of SLAB utilization by i915_request
SLAB cache. Another potential approach is to take a reference to the
previous active fence.
When updating an active fence tracker, we first lock the new fence,
substitute a pointer of the current active fence with the new one, then we
lock the substituted fence. With this approach, there is a time window
after the substitution and before the lock when the request can be
concurrently released by an interrupt handler and its memory reused, then
we may happen to lock and return a new, unrelated request.
Always get a reference to the current active fence first, before
replacing it with a new one. Having it protected from premature release
and reuse, lock it and then replace with the new one but only if not
yet signalled via a potential concurrent interrupt nor replaced with
another one by a potential concurrent thread, otherwise retry, starting
from getting a reference to the new current one. Adjust users to not
get a reference to the previous active fence themselves and always put the
reference got by __i915_active_fence_set() when no longer needed.
v3: Fix lockdep splat reports and other issues caused by incorrect use of
try_cmpxchg() (use (cmpxchg() != prev) instead)
v2: Protect request's memory by getting a reference to it in favor of
delegating its release to call_rcu() (Chris)
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8211
Fixes: df9f85d8 ("drm/i915: Serialise i915_active_fence_set() with itself")
Suggested-by: 
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: 
Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.6+
Reviewed-by: 
Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230720093543.832147-2-janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com
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