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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2023-01-24 17:36:29 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2023-01-24 17:36:29 +0100
commitb8f55f24bc82ed7064645cc7f6675430609314a5 (patch)
treed1c17e0362d982e2e8c22fe9bde76179c4ebc641 /drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
parentMerge tag 'drm-intel-gt-next-2023-01-18' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-next (diff)
parentdrm: bridge: ldb: Warn if LDB clock does not match requested link frequency (diff)
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Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2023-01-19' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next
drm-misc-next for $kernel-version: UAPI Changes: Cross-subsystem Changes: Core Changes: * Cleanup unneeded include statements wrt <linux/fb.h>, <drm/drm_fb_helper.h> and <drm/drm_crtc_helper.h> * Remove unused helper DRM_DEBUG_KMS_RATELIMITED() * fbdev: Remove obsolete aperture field from struct fb_device, plus driver cleanups; Remove unused flag FBINFO_MISC_FIRMWARE * MIPI-DSI: Fix brightness, plus rsp. driver updates * scheduler: Deprecate drm_sched_resubmit_jobs() * ttm: Fix MIPS build; Remove ttm_bo_wait(); Documentation fixes Driver Changes: * Remove obsolete drivers for userspace modesetting i810, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, via * bridge: Support CDNS DSI J721E, plus DT bindings; lt9611: Various fixes and improvements; sil902x: Various fixes; Fixes * nouveau: Removed support for legacy ioctls; Replace zero-size array; Cleanups * panel: Fixes * radeon: Use new DRM logging helpers Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/Y8kDk5YX7Yz3eRhM@linux-uq9g
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
index fd22d753b4ed..0e4378420271 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
@@ -551,10 +551,21 @@ void drm_sched_start(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool full_recovery)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_start);
/**
- * drm_sched_resubmit_jobs - helper to relaunch jobs from the pending list
+ * drm_sched_resubmit_jobs - Deprecated, don't use in new code!
*
* @sched: scheduler instance
*
+ * Re-submitting jobs was a concept AMD came up as cheap way to implement
+ * recovery after a job timeout.
+ *
+ * This turned out to be not working very well. First of all there are many
+ * problem with the dma_fence implementation and requirements. Either the
+ * implementation is risking deadlocks with core memory management or violating
+ * documented implementation details of the dma_fence object.
+ *
+ * Drivers can still save and restore their state for recovery operations, but
+ * we shouldn't make this a general scheduler feature around the dma_fence
+ * interface.
*/
void drm_sched_resubmit_jobs(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
{