[PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Stop spinning for DROP_IDLE (debugfs/i915_drop_caches)

Chris Wilson
2019-05-07T12:11:35Z

If the user is racing a call to debugfs/i915_drop_caches with ongoing
submission from another thread/process, we may never end up idling the
GPU and be uninterruptibly spinning in debugfs/i915_drop_caches trying
to catch an idle moment.

Just flush the work once, that should be enough to park the system under
correct conditions. Outside of those we either have a driver bug or the
user is racing themselves. Sadly, because the user may be provoking the
unwanted situation we can't put a warn here to attract attention to a
probable bug.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
index fc6e60d82477..b6094063be9b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
@@ -3947,9 +3947,7 @@ i915_drop_caches_set(void *data, u64 val)
fs_reclaim_release(GFP_KERNEL);

if (val & DROP_IDLE) {
- do {
- flush_delayed_work(&i915->gem.retire_work);
- } while (READ_ONCE(i915->gt.awake));
+ flush_delayed_work(&i915->gem.retire_work);
flush_work(&i915->gem.idle_work);
}