Re: CONFIG_ANDROID (was: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls in amdgpu after suspend)

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 09:30:39AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> Am 06.07.22 um 22:42 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:58:36AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 07:48:20PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > > > > Hello.
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 01:30:50PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Am 28.06.22 um 22:11 schrieb Uladzislau Rezki:
> > > > > > > > Excerpts from Paul E. McKenney's message of June 28, 2022 2:54 pm:
> > > > > > > > > All you need to do to get the previous behavior is to add something like
> > > > > > > > > this to your defconfig file:
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=21000
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Any reason why this will not work for you?
> > > > > > sorry for jumping in so later, I was on vacation for a week.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Well when any RCU period is longer than 20ms and amdgpu in the backtrace my
> > > > > > educated guess is that we messed up some timeout waiting for the hw.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We usually do wait a few us, but it can be that somebody is waiting for ms
> > > > > > instead.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > So there are some todos here as far as I can see and It would be helpful to
> > > > > > get a cleaner backtrace if possible.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > Actually CONFIG_ANDROID looks like is going to be removed, so the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
> > > > > will not have any dependencies on the CONFIG_ANDROID anymore:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org%2Flkml%2F2022%2F6%2F29%2F756&data=05%7C01%7Cchristian.koenig%40amd.com%7C8b36bcb4fe61475c0eb708da5f8ffce8%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637927369274030797%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eaK66spsbWVi2uRhcFK7eu4usgkHFZCSvErZxB%2F2npM%3D&reserved=0
> > > > But you can set the RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT Kconfig option, if you
> > > > wish.  Setting this option to 20 will get you the behavior previously
> > > > obtained by setting the now-defunct ANDROID Kconfig option.
> > > > 
> > > Right. Or over boot parameter. So for us it is not a big issue :)
> > Specifically rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout, for those just now
> > tuning in.  ;-)
> 
> I was just about to write a response asking for that :)
> 
> Thanks, I will suggest to our QA to add this parameter while doing some
> tests.

Very good!  Please let me know how it goes.

							Thanx, Paul