Hello Hugh,
Hugh Dickins - 01.06.17, 12:55:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hello.
[…]
> > Since 4.11 I have it quite often that a hang like this even happens on
> > suspend to RAM (standby) as well. And even quite often about 1 time of of
> > 2-3 suspend attempts. The hang symptoms are similar. Power LED dims on
> > and off. Screen is black.
> >
> > Since this is my holidays and this again does not happen all of the time
> > and thus would be considerable effort to bisect, I think I am out here
> > now. Unless you have something I can test easily.
> >
> > It seems I am much better off with opting out out of kernel testing as I
> > tend to usually get the nasty "I hang and I won´t tell you any hint as
> > about why I do so and do so only sometimes" kind of bugs that are too
> > much effort for me to provide any usable debug information about.
[…]
> > If you have any idea of useful information I can provide to you *easily*
> > and in a *short amount of time*, then feel free to share it. I have
> > holidays tough, so I am especially picky about the easily and short
> > amount of time part.
> >
> > Switching back to 4.10, last known working kernel, now.
>
> The commit below reached Linus's tree a few hours ago, and fixes an i915
> issue that several of us were seeing in 4.11 and 4.12-rc. I didn't have
> your symptoms - but I don't use hibernation: I think there's a good chance
> that this commit will fix your issue (but I wouldn't be able help any
> further if it does not work for you, sorry).
>
> Depending on what tree you apply it to, it may not apply cleanly:
> just delete the synchronize_rcu_expedited() and syncronize_rcu()
> lines from that file.
Thank you for the hint.
My machine isn´t exactly what I call a low memory machine. It is a Sandybridge
ThinkPad T520 with 16 GiB of RAM.
Well… some day, maybe with rc4, maybe earlier, I pull in newest stuff from
Linus and look how this works.
Thanks,
Martin
> commit 4681ee21d62cfed4364e09ec50ee8e88185dd628
> Author: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Thu May 18 11:49:39 2017 +0300
>
> drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking
>
> Due to the complex dependencies between workqueues and RCU, which
> are not easily detected by lockdep, do not synchronize RCU during
> shrinking.
>
> On low-on-memory systems (mem=1G for example), the RCU sync leads
> to all system workqueus freezing and unrelated lockdep splats are
> displayed according to reports. GIT bisecting done by J. R.
> Okajima points to the commit where RCU syncing was extended.
>
> RCU sync gains us very little benefit in real life scenarios
> where the amount of memory used by object backing storage is
> dominant over the metadata under RCU, so drop it altogether.
>
> " Yeeeaah, if core could just, go ahead and reclaim RCU
> queues, that'd be great. "
>
> - Chris Wilson, 2016 (0eafec6d3244)
>
> v2: More information to commit message.
> v3: Remove "grep _rcu_" escapee from i915_gem_shrink_all (Andrea)
>
> Fixes: c053b5a506d3 ("drm/i915: Don't call synchronize_rcu_expedited
> under struct_mutex") Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Tested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com>
> Cc: J. R. Okajima <hooanon...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
> (cherry picked from commit 73cc0b9aa9afa5ba65d92e46ded61d29430d72a4)
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
> Link:
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1495097379-573-1-git-send-emai
> l-joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c index 129ed303a6c4..57d9f7f4ef15
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> @@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ static void i915_gem_shrinker_unlock(struct drm_device
> *dev, bool unlock) return;
>
> mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
> -
> - /* expedite the RCU grace period to free some request slabs */
> - synchronize_rcu_expedited();
> }
>
> static bool any_vma_pinned(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> @@ -274,8 +271,6 @@ unsigned long i915_gem_shrink_all(struct
> drm_i915_private *dev_priv) I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE);
> intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv);
>
> - synchronize_rcu(); /* wait for our earlier RCU delayed slab frees */
> -
> return freed;
> }
--
Martin
