Applied.  Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 5:11 AM Christian König
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/26 05:25, John Fisher wrote:
> > Thanks Christian. Since I don't have commit access, I assume that if
> > all looks good the commit will be passed on to be applied?
>
> Alex usually picks those up after a few days and merges it into 
> amd-staging-drm-next.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 at 20:00, Christian König <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/8/26 22:45, John Fisher wrote:
> >>> amdgpu_vm_make_compute() switches a VM from SDMA to CPU page table
> >>> updates when a KFD process acquires it. It syncs "with the last SDMA
> >>> update/clear" through amdgpu_bo_sync_wait() on the root PD, but that
> >>> walks the reservation with DMA_RESV_USAGE_READ, and the clears of the
> >>> VM's page tables (the root PD from amdgpu_vm_init(), and the PDs/PTs
> >>> the seq64 mapping allocates at the render node's open) are added there
> >>> by amdgpu_vm_sdma_commit() with DMA_RESV_USAGE_BOOKKEEP only:
> >>> amdgpu_vm_pt_clear() commits them with a NULL fence, so they do not
> >>> reach vm->last_update. The CPU path's own waits (amdgpu_vm_cpu_update(),
> >>> amdgpu_bo_kmap()) use DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL. None of them waits for a
> >>> clear that is still queued.
> >>>
> >>> When one is, the CPU writes the first entries of the new compute VM (the
> >>> KFD trap handler's TBA/TMA page at AMDGPU_VA_RESERVED_TRAP_START, mapped
> >>> during ACQUIRE_VM) into a page directory the SDMA then clears. The
> >>> entries are gone, the handler's page is unmapped, and the first wave
> >>> save of any queue of the process faults in the SQC instruction fetch at
> >>> the handler's address (GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS 0x008012B1,
> >>> PERMISSION_FAULTS 0xb). The MES then fails REMOVE_QUEUE and SUSPEND, and
> >>> the device takes a MODE1 reset with VRAM lost on 7.2.9; on 7.3-rc6 the
> >>> queue is reset instead.
> >>>
> >>> The window is the time between the render node's open and ACQUIRE_VM.
> >>> ROCr spends milliseconds there and is practically never hit; a minimal
> >>> KFD client that opens the render node and acquires the VM at once is hit
> >>> most of the time. On a Radeon AI PRO R9700 (gfx1201, Resizable BAR, so
> >>> vm_update_mode defaults to CPU updates for compute VMs), a wave reading
> >>> the trap handler's page right after queue creation found it unmapped in
> >>> 8 of 12 runs; a 5 ms sleep between the open and ACQUIRE_VM made that 0
> >>> of 9, and the same sleep after queue creation instead 3 of 3.
> >>>
> >>> The wait covered these jobs until commit 926c79ad6ecd ("drm/amdgpu:
> >>> promote the implicit sync to the dependent read fences") narrowed
> >>> amdgpu_sync_resv() from DMA_RESV_USAGE_BOOKKEEP to DMA_RESV_USAGE_READ;
> >>> the VM's page table jobs have been added with BOOKKEEP since commit
> >>> 4247084057cf ("drm/amdgpu: use DMA_RESV_USAGE_BOOKKEEP v2"), so from
> >>> v6.16 on the sync in amdgpu_vm_make_compute() waits for nothing of
> >>> them.
> >>>
> >>> Record the clears in vm->last_update, as amdgpu_vm_update_pdes() does
> >>> with its updates, and wait for it, uninterruptibly, before switching the
> >>> update functions. The clears all go through vm->delayed, so the last one
> >>> covers the earlier ones; immediate clears are not recorded, as before.
> >>>
> >>> With this, on 7.3-rc6 and on 7.2.9, the same client reads the handler
> >>> 10 of 10 times, 8 busy queues on the 4 compute slots complete in 5 of 5
> >>> runs on 7.3-rc6 and 3 of 3 on 7.2.9 (1 of 6 before), 16 and 32 queues
> >>> complete on 7.3-rc6, and two processes with 8 queues each complete
> >>> together on both, with no fault.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 926c79ad6ecd ("drm/amdgpu: promote the implicit sync to the 
> >>> dependent read fences")
> >>> Cc: [email protected] # v6.16+
> >>> Cc: Prike Liang <[email protected]>
> >>> Signed-off-by: John Fisher <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Christian König <[email protected]>
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>> v2: wait for vm->last_update, in which amdgpu_vm_pt_clear() now records
> >>>     the clears, instead of every BOOKKEEP fence on the root PD; wait
> >>>     uninterruptibly without checking the result; keep the original
> >>>     comment (Christian)
> >>> v1: 
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/
> >>>
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c    | 5 +----
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm_pt.c | 2 +-
> >>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c 
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> >>> index 29187fabc..757a037ed 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
> >>> @@ -2737,10 +2737,7 @@ int amdgpu_vm_make_compute(struct amdgpu_device 
> >>> *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm)
> >>>
> >>>       if (vm->use_cpu_for_update) {
> >>>               /* Sync with last SDMA update/clear before switching to CPU 
> >>> */
> >>> -             r = amdgpu_bo_sync_wait(vm->root.bo,
> >>> -                                     AMDGPU_FENCE_OWNER_UNDEFINED, true);
> >>> -             if (r)
> >>> -                     goto unreserve_bo;
> >>> +             dma_fence_wait(vm->last_update, false);
> >>>
> >>>               vm->update_funcs = &amdgpu_vm_cpu_funcs;
> >>>               r = amdgpu_vm_pt_map_tables(adev, vm);
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm_pt.c 
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm_pt.c
> >>> index c03327f12..cdbc2e931 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm_pt.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm_pt.c
> >>> @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ int amdgpu_vm_pt_clear(struct amdgpu_device *adev, 
> >>> struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
> >>>       if (r)
> >>>               goto exit;
> >>>
> >>> -     r = vm->update_funcs->commit(&params, NULL);
> >>> +     r = vm->update_funcs->commit(&params, &vm->last_update);
> >>>  exit:
> >>>       drm_dev_exit(idx);
> >>>       return r;
> >>
>

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