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From: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
To: "Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
	"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	"Philipp Stanner" <phasta@kernel.org>,
	"Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/3] drm/sched: Adjust outdated docu for run_job()
Date: Wed,  5 Mar 2025 14:05:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250305130551.136682-3-phasta@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250305130551.136682-2-phasta@kernel.org>

The documentation for drm_sched_backend_ops.run_job() mentions a certain
function called drm_sched_job_recovery(). This function does not exist.
What's actually meant is drm_sched_resubmit_jobs(), which is by now also
deprecated.

Furthermore, the scheduler expects to "inherit" a reference on the fence
from the run_job() callback. This, so far, is also not documented.

Remove the mention of the removed function.

Discourage the behavior of drm_sched_backend_ops.run_job() being called
multiple times for the same job.

Document the necessity of incrementing the refcount in run_job().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
---
 include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
index 50928a7ae98e..6381baae8024 100644
--- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
+++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
@@ -410,10 +410,36 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops {
 					 struct drm_sched_entity *s_entity);
 
 	/**
-         * @run_job: Called to execute the job once all of the dependencies
-         * have been resolved.  This may be called multiple times, if
-	 * timedout_job() has happened and drm_sched_job_recovery()
-	 * decides to try it again.
+	 * @run_job: Called to execute the job once all of the dependencies
+	 * have been resolved.
+	 *
+	 * @sched_job: the job to run
+	 *
+	 * The deprecated drm_sched_resubmit_jobs() (called by &struct
+	 * drm_sched_backend_ops.timedout_job) can invoke this again with the
+	 * same parameters. Using this is discouraged because it violates
+	 * dma_fence rules, notably dma_fence_init() has to be called on
+	 * already initialized fences for a second time. Moreover, this is
+	 * dangerous because attempts to allocate memory might deadlock with
+	 * memory management code waiting for the reset to complete.
+	 *
+	 * TODO: Document what drivers should do / use instead.
+	 *
+	 * This method is called in a workqueue context - either from the
+	 * submit_wq the driver passed through drm_sched_init(), or, if the
+	 * driver passed NULL, a separate, ordered workqueue the scheduler
+	 * allocated.
+	 *
+	 * Note that the scheduler expects to 'inherit' its own reference to
+	 * this fence from the callback. It does not invoke an extra
+	 * dma_fence_get() on it. Consequently, this callback must take a
+	 * reference for the scheduler, and additional ones for the driver's
+	 * respective needs.
+	 *
+	 * Return:
+	 * * On success: dma_fence the driver must signal once the hardware has
+	 * completed the job ("hardware fence").
+	 * * On failure: NULL or an ERR_PTR.
 	 */
 	struct dma_fence *(*run_job)(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job);
 
-- 
2.48.1


  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-05 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-05 13:05 [PATCH v7 0/3] drm/sched: Documentation and refcount improvements Philipp Stanner
2025-03-05 13:05 ` Philipp Stanner [this message]
2025-03-05 13:45   ` [PATCH v7 1/3] drm/sched: Adjust outdated docu for run_job() Bagas Sanjaya
2025-03-05 14:24     ` Philipp Stanner
2025-03-07 18:09   ` Maíra Canal
2025-03-07 18:17     ` Philipp Stanner
2025-03-05 13:05 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] drm/sched: Document run_job() refcount hazard Philipp Stanner
2025-03-05 13:05 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] drm/sched: Update timedout_job()'s documentation Philipp Stanner
2025-03-06 20:57   ` Matthew Brost
2025-03-07  9:37     ` Philipp Stanner
2025-03-07 17:07       ` Matthew Brost
2025-03-07 17:35       ` Matthew Brost
2025-03-06 14:28 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] drm/sched: Documentation and refcount improvements Danilo Krummrich
2025-03-06 15:44   ` Philipp Stanner

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