From: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
To: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
"Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
"Rodrigo Vivi" <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
"Matthew Auld" <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] drm/xe: Don't unload the driver until all drm devices are freed
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:04:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924080455.25458-3-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924080455.25458-1-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
xe, and shared helpers it uses such as drm_gpuvm, already take bare
drm_device references (drm_dev_get()) from several contexts, for
example GuC submission fence workers, EU stall, OA and PMU sampling
code, and drm_gpuvm's own vm object lifetime, without pairing them
with a module reference. Since xe_exit() is only invoked after the
module's own refcount has dropped to zero, none of these references
currently prevent `rmmod xe` from proceeding while they, or the
underlying xe_device release path they can trigger, are still
outstanding, i.e. driver code belonging to a module whose text is
being freed could still end up executing.
Close this gap by keeping a device-count and waiting for it to reach
zero at module unload, then waiting for any release callback that has
started executing to finish, using the drm_dev_release_barrier()
infrastructure introduced in the previous commit.
The wait for the device-count to reach zero at module unload is
unbounded and non-interruptible. Rather than blocking silently forever
if a reference is ever leaked, use wait_var_event_timeout() with a 20s
timeout, well above the typical maximum dma_fence signalling time, and
warn once if devices still remain by then, before falling back to an
unbounded wait_var_event() so a stuck rmmod is at least observable
instead of an indefinite, silent hang.
Note that if a reference genuinely leaks, this still ends up as an
indefinite uninterruptible sleep, which may eventually trip the
kernel's hung-task watchdog. The alternative would be for these bare
drm_device references to also take a module reference, which would
instead make the module unable to be unloaded unless all its devices are
manually unbound first. The wait-based approach is chosen here since it
keeps rmmod usable in the common case.
Register a driver-private SRCU domain via the new
&drm_driver.release_srcu field on both xe drm_driver instances, and
pass the driver to drm_dev_release_barrier(). This keeps xe's wait for
its own release callbacks to complete from blocking on unrelated
drivers' release paths.
xe_device_exit() is added as a new module exit hook. Its entry in the
init_funcs[] table is placed between xe_destroy_wq_module_init and
xe_register_pci_driver, so that (exit functions run in reverse array
order) it executes after xe_unregister_pci_driver() has forced all
devices to unbind, but before xe_destroy_wq_module_exit() tears down
the module-lifetime xe_destroy_wq. This preserves xe_destroy_wq's
existing teardown ordering relative to xe_sched_job_module_exit() and
xe_hw_fence_module_exit(), which destroy kmem_caches that work drained
from xe_destroy_wq relies on, while ensuring xe_destroy_wq itself is
only torn down once xe_device_exit() has confirmed no more work can be
queued onto it.
v2:
- Updated commit message to describe the actual implementation (a
single 20s wait_var_event_timeout() followed by one pr_warn() and an
unbounded wait_var_event(), rather than a loop retrying with a
diagnostic every 10s) and its uninterruptible-sleep tradeoff
(sashiko)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.h | 2 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_module.c | 18 ++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
index 205cb4e7f9e8..bfb1b482d83d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/aperture.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
#include <linux/units.h>
#include <drm/drm_client.h>
@@ -311,6 +312,13 @@ bool xe_is_xe_file(const struct file *file)
return file->f_op == &xe_driver_fops;
}
+/*
+ * Driver-owned SRCU domain used to synchronize completion of driver release
+ * callbacks with drm_dev_release_barrier(), so that xe_device_exit() doesn't
+ * have to wait on unrelated drivers' release paths.
+ */
+DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(xe_dev_release_srcu);
+
static const struct drm_driver regular_driver = {
.driver_features =
XE_DISPLAY_DRIVER_FEATURES |
@@ -335,6 +343,7 @@ static const struct drm_driver regular_driver = {
.major = DRIVER_MAJOR,
.minor = DRIVER_MINOR,
.patchlevel = DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL,
+ .release_srcu = &xe_dev_release_srcu,
XE_DISPLAY_DRIVER_OPS,
};
@@ -357,6 +366,7 @@ static const struct drm_driver admin_only_driver = {
.major = DRIVER_MAJOR,
.minor = DRIVER_MINOR,
.patchlevel = DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL,
+ .release_srcu = &xe_dev_release_srcu,
};
/**
@@ -372,6 +382,9 @@ bool xe_device_is_admin_only(const struct xe_device *xe)
}
#endif
+/* Number of allocated struct xe_device */
+static atomic_t xe_device_count;
+
static void xe_device_destroy(struct drm_device *dev, void *dummy)
{
struct xe_device *xe = to_xe_device(dev);
@@ -391,6 +404,9 @@ static void xe_device_destroy(struct drm_device *dev, void *dummy)
destroy_workqueue(xe->destroy_wq);
ttm_device_fini(&xe->ttm);
+
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&xe_device_count))
+ wake_up_var(&xe_device_count);
}
/**
@@ -461,6 +477,7 @@ int xe_device_init_early(struct xe_device *xe)
return err;
xe_bo_dev_init(&xe->bo_device);
+ atomic_inc(&xe_device_count);
err = drmm_add_action_or_reset(&xe->drm, xe_device_destroy, NULL);
if (err)
return err;
@@ -1501,3 +1518,28 @@ struct xe_vm *xe_device_asid_to_vm(struct xe_device *xe, u32 asid)
return vm;
}
+
+/**
+ * xe_device_exit() - Device subsystem exit function.
+ *
+ * Exit function to be called at module unload time.
+ */
+void xe_device_exit(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Wait for all devices to be freed. 20s is well above the typical
+ * maximum dma_fence signalling time, so warn and keep waiting if
+ * we're still not done by then, since it may indicate a leaked
+ * xe_device reference is stalling module unload.
+ */
+ if (!wait_var_event_timeout(&xe_device_count,
+ !atomic_read(&xe_device_count),
+ HZ * 20)) {
+ pr_warn("%s: Waiting for %d xe device(s) to be freed before unloading.\n",
+ DRIVER_NAME, atomic_read(&xe_device_count));
+ wait_var_event(&xe_device_count, !atomic_read(&xe_device_count));
+ }
+
+ /* Wait for any driver release callbacks to complete */
+ drm_dev_release_barrier(®ular_driver);
+}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.h
index 6d3d6d5eba29..83d6dafab53c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.h
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ static inline bool xe_device_is_admin_only(const struct xe_device *xe)
}
#endif
+void xe_device_exit(void);
+
/*
* Occasionally it is seen that the G2H worker starts running after a delay of more than
* a second even after being queued and activated by the Linux workqueue subsystem. This
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_module.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_module.c
index 4bc28dfc1992..c61bd33546f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_module.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_module.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
#include <drm/drm_module.h>
#include "xe_defaults.h"
-#include "xe_device_types.h"
+#include "xe_device.h"
#include "xe_drv.h"
#include "xe_configfs.h"
#include "xe_hw_fence.h"
@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ static const struct init_funcs init_funcs[] = {
.init = xe_destroy_wq_module_init,
.exit = xe_destroy_wq_module_exit,
},
+ /*
+ * xe_destroy_wq_module_exit() must run after xe_device_exit()
+ * (below), since freeing a device can still queue work on
+ * xe_destroy_wq that must be drained before the module can safely
+ * unload. At the same time, xe_device_exit() must run after
+ * xe_unregister_pci_driver() (below), and xe_destroy_wq_module_exit()
+ * must run before xe_sched_job_module_exit() and
+ * xe_hw_fence_module_exit() (above), whose kmem_caches are still used
+ * by work drained from xe_destroy_wq. Exit functions run in reverse
+ * array order, so this entry must sit between the
+ * xe_destroy_wq_module_init entry above and the xe_register_pci_driver
+ * entry below.
+ */
+ {
+ .exit = xe_device_exit,
+ },
{
.init = xe_register_pci_driver,
.exit = xe_unregister_pci_driver,
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 8:04 [PATCH v2 0/3] drm, drm/xe: Protect against premature module unloads Thomas Hellström
2026-09-24 8:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Provide a drm_dev_release_barrier() function to wait for device release callbacks Thomas Hellström
2026-09-24 11:19 ` Christian König
2026-09-24 13:10 ` Thomas Hellström
2026-09-24 8:04 ` Thomas Hellström [this message]
2026-09-24 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] drm/xe: Don't unload the driver until all drm devices are freed Matthew Brost
2026-09-24 8:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] drm/xe: Route deferred xe_vma/xe_vm teardown off system_dfl_wq Thomas Hellström
2026-09-24 20:55 ` Matthew Brost
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