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Normally, we rely on our hangcheck to prevent persistent batches from hogging the GPU. However, if the user disables hangcheck, this mechanism breaks down. Despite our insistence that this is unsafe, the users are equally insistent that they want to use endless batches and will disable the hangcheck mechanism. We are looking at replacing hangcheck, in the next patch, with a softer mechanism, that sends a pulse down the engine to check if it is well. We can use the same preemptive pulse to flush an active context off the GPU upon context close, preventing resources being lost and unkillable requests remaining on the GPU after process termination. Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_exec/basic-nohangcheck Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com> Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191023133108.21401-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.