[PATCH v6 00/45] Recover from failure to probe GPU

Mario Limonciello
2023-01-05T03:44:06Z

One of the first thing that KMS drivers do during initialization is
destroy the system firmware framebuffer by means of
`drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers`

This means that if for any reason the GPU failed to probe the user
will be stuck with at best a screen frozen at the last thing that
was shown before the KMS driver continued it's probe.

The problem is most pronounced when new GPU support is introduced
because users will need to have a recent linux-firmware snapshot
on their system when they boot a kernel with matching support.

However the problem is further exaggerated in the case of amdgpu because
it has migrated to "IP discovery" where amdgpu will attempt to load
on "ALL" AMD GPUs even if the driver is missing support for IP blocks
contained in that GPU.

IP discovery requires some probing and isn't run until after the
framebuffer has been destroyed.

This means a situation can occur where a user purchases a new GPU not
yet supported by a distribution and when booting the installer it will
"freeze" even if the distribution doesn't have the matching kernel support
for those IP blocks.

The perfect example of this is Ubuntu 22.10 and the new dGPUs just
launched by AMD. The installation media ships with kernel 5.19 (which
has IP discovery) but the amdgpu support for those IP blocks landed in
kernel 6.0. The matching linux-firmware was released after 22.10's launch.
The screen will freeze without nomodeset. Even if a user manages to install
and then upgrades to kernel 6.0 after install they'll still have the
problem of missing firmware, and the same experience.

This is quite jarring for users, particularly if they don't know
that they have to use "nomodeset" to install.

To help the situation make changes to GPU discovery:
1) Delay releasing the firmware framebuffer until after early_init
completed. This will help the situation of an older kernel that doesn't
yet support the IP blocks probing a new GPU. IP discovery will have failed.
2) Request loading all PSP, VCN, SDMA, SMU, DMCUB, MES and GC microcode
into memory during early_init. This will help the situation of new enough
kernel for the IP discovery phase to otherwise pass but missing microcode
from linux-firmware.git.

v5->v6:
* Fix arguments for amdgpu_ucode_release to allow clearing pointer
* Fix whitespace mistake in VCN
* Pick up tags for 43 of the patches
v4->v5:
* Rename amdgpu_ucode_load to amdgpu_ucode_request
* Add and utilize amdgpu_ucode_release throughout existing patches
* Update all amdgpu code to stop using request_firmware and
release_firmware for microcode
* Drop export of amdgpu_ucode_validate outside of amdgpu_ucode.c
* Pick up relevant tags for some patches
v3->v4:
* Rework to delay framebuffer release until early_init is done
* Make IP load microcode during early init phase
* Add SMU and DMCUB checks for early_init loading
* Add some new helper code for wrapping request_firmware calls (needed for
early_init to return something besides -ENOENT)
v2->v3:
* Pick up tags for patches 1-10
* Rework patch 11 to not validate during discovery
* Fix bugs with GFX9 due to gfx.num_gfx_rings not being set during
discovery
* Fix naming scheme for SDMA on dGPUs
v1->v2:
* Take the suggestion from v1 thread to delay the framebuffer release
until ip discovery is done. This patch is CC to stable to that older
stable kernels with IP discovery won't try to probe unknown IP.
* Drop changes to drm aperature.
* Fetch SDMA, VCN, MES, GC and PSP microcode during IP discovery.

Mario Limonciello (27):
drm/amd: Delay removal of the firmware framebuffer
drm/amd: Add a legacy mapping to "amdgpu_ucode_ip_version_decode"
drm/amd: Convert SMUv11 microcode to use
`amdgpu_ucode_ip_version_decode`
drm/amd: Convert SMUv13 microcode to use
`amdgpu_ucode_ip_version_decode`
drm/amd: Add a new helper for loading/validating microcode
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_request` helper for SDMA
drm/amd: Convert SDMA to use `amdgpu_ucode_ip_version_decode`
drm/amd: Make SDMA firmware load failures less noisy.
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for VCN
drm/amd: Load VCN microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Load MES microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for MES
drm/amd: Remove superfluous assignment for `adev->mes.adev`
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX9
drm/amd: Load GFX9 microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX10
drm/amd: Load GFX10 microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX11
drm/amd: Load GFX11 microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Parse both v1 and v2 TA microcode headers using same function
drm/amd: Avoid BUG() for case of SRIOV missing IP version
drm/amd: Load PSP microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for PSP
drm/amd/display: Load DMUB microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_release` helper for DMUB
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for SMU
drm/amd: Load SMU microcode during early_init
drm/amd: Optimize SRIOV switch/case for PSP microcode load
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX6
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX7
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GFX8
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GMC6
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GMC7
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GMC8
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for SDMA2.4
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for SDMA3.0
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for SDMA on CIK
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for UVD
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for VCE
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for CGS
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for GPU info bin
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_*` helpers for DMCU
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_release` helper for powerplay
drm/amd: Use `amdgpu_ucode_release` helper for si
drm/amd: make amdgpu_ucode_validate static

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cgs.c | 11 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 22 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 6 -
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mes.c | 59 ++++
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mes.h | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_psp.c | 296 +++++++++---------
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sdma.c | 25 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sdma.h | 4 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ucode.c | 259 ++++++++++++++-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ucode.h | 4 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_uvd.c | 14 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vce.c | 14 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.c | 65 +---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/cik_sdma.c | 16 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v10_0.c | 155 +++------
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v11_0.c | 124 +++-----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v6_0.c | 30 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v7_0.c | 68 +---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c | 94 ++----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v9_0.c | 140 ++-------
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v6_0.c | 14 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v7_0.c | 13 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v8_0.c | 13 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/imu_v11_0.c | 7 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v10_1.c | 108 ++-----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v11_0.c | 99 ++----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v10_0.c | 80 +----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v11_0.c | 129 +-------
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c | 75 +----
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v13_0.c | 27 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v13_0_4.c | 14 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v3_1.c | 16 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v2_4.c | 18 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v3_0.c | 18 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v4_0.c | 47 +--
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_0.c | 30 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_2.c | 55 +---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v6_0.c | 25 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v1_0.c | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v2_0.c | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v2_5.c | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v3_0.c | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vcn_v4_0.c | 5 +-
.../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 110 ++++---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/si_dpm.c | 11 +-
.../gpu/drm/amd/pm/powerplay/amd_powerplay.c | 3 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/amdgpu_smu.c | 12 +-
.../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/smu_v11_0.c | 51 +--
.../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0.c | 28 +-
50 files changed, 894 insertions(+), 1542 deletions(-)

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