drm/i915: add interface to simulate gpu hangs
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Thu, 3 May 2012 12:48:16 +0000 (14:48 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Sat, 5 May 2012 17:45:00 +0000 (19:45 +0200)
commite5eb3d63c6182d3f21fbfc836ded748d49d521f9
treefbd403fb63c664b6136390218809179da3d7e54e
parentc6ebd4c015a80991fe149a6a003ae4c83386e00e
drm/i915: add interface to simulate gpu hangs

gpu reset is a very important piece of our infrastructure.
Unfortunately we only really it test by actually hanging the gpu,
which often has bad side-effects for the entire system. And the gpu
hang handling code is one of the rather complicated pieces of code we
have, consisting of
- hang detection
- error capture
- actual gpu reset
- reset of all the gem bookkeeping
- reinitialition of the entire gpu

This patch adds a debugfs to selectively stopping rings by ceasing to
update the hw tail pointer, which will result in the gpu no longer
updating it's head pointer and eventually to the hangcheck firing.
This way we can exercise the gpu hang code under controlled conditions
without a dying gpu taking down the entire systems.

Patch motivated by me forgetting to properly reinitialize ppgtt after
a gpu reset.

Usage:

echo $((1 << $ringnum)) > i915_ring_stop # stops one ring

echo 0xffffffff > i915_ring_stop # stops all, future-proof version

then run whatever testload is desired. i915_ring_stop automatically
resets after a gpu hang is detected to avoid hanging the gpu to fast
and declaring it wedged.

v2: Incorporate feedback from Chris Wilson.

v3: Add the missing cleanup.

v4: Fix up inconsistent size of ring_stop_read vs _write, noticed by
Eugeni Dodonov.

Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov@intel.com>
Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
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