linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/amd/display: Support DRM_AMD_DC

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Message-ID: <07d27191-12b6-4c84-b80e-75c618df9de4@sifive.com>
Date:   Sat, 9 Dec 2023 15:29:47 -0600
From:   Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Conor.Dooley" <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
        Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@....com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Pan Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan@....com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/amd/display: Support DRM_AMD_DC_FP on RISC-V

Hi Arnd,

On 2023-12-09 2:38 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, at 06:04, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> On 2023-11-29 6:42 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 02:23:01PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 07:05:15PM -0800, Samuel Holland wrote:
>>>>> RISC-V uses kernel_fpu_begin()/kernel_fpu_end() like several other
>>>>> architectures. Enabling hardware FP requires overriding the ISA string
>>>>> for the relevant compilation units.
>>>>
>>>> Ah yes, bringing the joy of frame-larger-than warnings to RISC-V:
>>>> ../drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_32.c:58:13: warning: stack frame size (2416) exceeds limit (2048) in 'DISPCLKDPPCLKDCFCLKDeepSleepPrefetchParametersWatermarksAndPerformanceCalculation' [-Wframe-larger-than]
>>>
>>> :(
>>>
>>>> Nathan, have you given up on these being sorted out?
>>>
>>> Does your configuration have KASAN (I don't think RISC-V supports
>>> KCSAN)? It is possible that dml/dcn32 needs something similar to commit
>>> 6740ec97bcdb ("drm/amd/display: Increase frame warning limit with KASAN
>>> or KCSAN in dml2")?
>>>
>>> I am not really interested in playing whack-a-mole with these warnings
>>> like I have done in the past for the reasons I outlined here:
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/20231019205117.GA839902@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
>>
>> I also see one of these with clang 17 even with KASAN disabled:
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn32/display_mode_vba_32.c:37:6:
>> warning: stack frame size (2208) exceeds limit (2048) in 'dml32_recalculate'
>> [-Wframe-larger-than]
>> void dml32_recalculate(struct display_mode_lib *mode_lib)
>>
>>      ^
>> 1532/2208 (69.38%) spills, 676/2208 (30.62%) variables
>>
>> So I'm in favor of just raising the limit for these files for clang, like you
>> suggested in the linked thread.
> 
> How about just adding a BUG_ON(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV))
> in that function? That should also avoid the build failure
> but give a better indication of where the problem is
> if someone actually runs into that function and triggers
> a runtime stack overflow.

Won't that break actual users of the driver, trading an unlikely but
theoretically possible stack overflow for a guaranteed crash? The intent of this
series is that I have one of these GPUs plugged in to a RISC-V board, and I want
to use it.

Regards,
Samuel