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    drm/i915: Ignore stuck requests when considering hangs · 34730fed
    Chris Wilson authored
    If the engine isn't being retired (worker starvation?) then it is
    possible for us to repeatedly observe that between consecutive
    hangchecks the seqno on the ring to be the same and there remain
    unretired requests. Ignore these completely and only regard the engine
    as busy for the purpose of hang detection (not stall detection) if there
    are outstanding breadcrumbs.
    
    In recent history we have looked at using both the request and seqno as
    indication of activity on the engine, but that was reduced to just
    inspecting seqno in commit cffa781e ("drm/i915: Simplify check for
    idleness in hangcheck"). However, in commit dcff85c8 ("drm/i915:
    Enable i915_gem_wait_for_idle() without holding struct_mutex"), I made
    the decision to use the new common lockless function, under the
    assumption that request retirement was more frequent than hangcheck and
    so we would not have a stuck busy check. The flaw there was in
    forgetting that we accumulate the hang score, and so successive checks
    seeing a stuck request, albeit with the GPU advancing elsewhere and so
    not necessary the same stuck request, would eventually trigger the hang.
    
    Fixes: dcff85c8 ("drm/i915: Enable i915_gem_wait_for_idle()...")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
    Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20160820145408.32180-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukReviewed-by: default avatarMika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
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