Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] drm/sched: Use parent fence instead of finished

[Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@amd.com>]

What exactly is the scenario which this patch fixes in more detail please  ?

Andrey

On 2022-09-09 13:08, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Using the parent fence instead of the finished fence
> to get the job status. This change is to avoid GPU
> scheduler timeout error which can cause GPU reset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <Arvind.Yadav@amd.com>
> ---
>
> changes in v1,v2 - Enable signaling for finished fence in sche_main()
> is removed
>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> index e0ab14e0fb6b..2ac28ad11432 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> @@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ drm_sched_get_cleanup_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>   	job = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
>   				       struct drm_sched_job, list);
>   
> -	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(&job->s_fence->finished)) {
> +	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(job->s_fence->parent)) {
>   		/* remove job from pending_list */
>   		list_del_init(&job->list);
>   
> @@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ drm_sched_get_cleanup_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>   
>   		if (next) {
>   			next->s_fence->scheduled.timestamp =
> -				job->s_fence->finished.timestamp;
> +				job->s_fence->parent->timestamp;
>   			/* start TO timer for next job */
>   			drm_sched_start_timeout(sched);
>   		}