Re: [PATCH] accel/amdxdna: Fix deadlock between context destroy and job timeout

["Falkowski, Maciej" <maciej.falkowski@linux.intel.com>]

Reviewed-by: Maciej Falkowski <maciej.falkowski@linux.intel.com>

You could add some lockdep assertions for dev_lock to better track its 
state.

Best regards,
Maciej

On 11/7/2025 7:10 PM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> Hardware context destroy function holds dev_lock while waiting for all jobs
> to complete. The timeout job also needs to acquire dev_lock, this leads to
> a deadlock.
>
> Fix the issue by temporarily releasing dev_lock before waiting for all
> jobs to finish, and reacquiring it afterward.
>
> Fixes: 4fd6ca90fc7f ("accel/amdxdna: Refactor hardware context destroy routine")
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
> ---
>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
> index bdc90fe8a47e..42d876a427c5 100644
> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
> @@ -690,17 +690,19 @@ void aie2_hwctx_fini(struct amdxdna_hwctx *hwctx)
>   	xdna = hwctx->client->xdna;
>   
>   	XDNA_DBG(xdna, "%s sequence number %lld", hwctx->name, hwctx->priv->seq);
> -	drm_sched_entity_destroy(&hwctx->priv->entity);
> -
>   	aie2_hwctx_wait_for_idle(hwctx);
>   
>   	/* Request fw to destroy hwctx and cancel the rest pending requests */
>   	aie2_release_resource(hwctx);
>   
> +	mutex_unlock(&xdna->dev_lock);
> +	drm_sched_entity_destroy(&hwctx->priv->entity);
> +
>   	/* Wait for all submitted jobs to be completed or canceled */
>   	wait_event(hwctx->priv->job_free_wq,
>   		   atomic64_read(&hwctx->job_submit_cnt) ==
>   		   atomic64_read(&hwctx->job_free_cnt));
> +	mutex_lock(&xdna->dev_lock);
>   
>   	drm_sched_fini(&hwctx->priv->sched);
>   	aie2_ctx_syncobj_destroy(hwctx);