linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Avoid unnecessary Call Traces in amdgpu_irq

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Message-ID: <6ac02ffa-5d62-4fc7-9882-6ccf7b44eaf4@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:47:57 +0100
From: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Cc: Alan Liu <haoping.liu@....com>, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Avoid unnecessary Call Traces in
 amdgpu_irq_put()

On 1/15/26 02:28, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> Currently, there are many Call Traces when booting kernel on LoongArch,
> here are the trimmed kernel log messages:
> 
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: hw_init of IP block <gfx_v6_0> failed -110
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.
>   ------------[ cut here ]------------
>   WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c:639 at amdgpu_irq_put+0xb0/0x140 [amdgpu], CPU#0: kworker/0:0/9
>   ...
>   Call Trace:
>   [<90000000047a8524>] show_stack+0x64/0x190
>   [<90000000047a0614>] dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x9c
>   [<90000000047cef34>] __warn+0xa4/0x1b0
>   [<90000000060a4884>] __report_bug+0xa4/0x1d0
>   [<90000000060a4a88>] report_bug+0x38/0xd0
>   [<90000000060df330>] do_bp+0x260/0x410
>   [<90000000047a6bc0>] handle_bp+0x120/0x1c0
>   [<ffff8000028bff40>] amdgpu_irq_put+0xb0/0x140 [amdgpu]
>   [<ffff8000027b1a8c>] amdgpu_fence_driver_hw_fini+0x12c/0x180 [amdgpu]
>   [<ffff800002f2c04c>] amdgpu_device_fini_hw+0xf0/0x3fc [amdgpu]
>   [<ffff80000279e2ac>] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x7c/0xa0 [amdgpu]
>   [<ffff800002791128>] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x298/0x810 [amdgpu]
>   [<90000000054d04a4>] local_pci_probe+0x44/0xc0
>   [<90000000047f4ab0>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x20/0x40
>   [<90000000047f93e0>] process_one_work+0x170/0x4e0
>   [<90000000047fa14c>] worker_thread+0x3ac/0x4e0
>   [<9000000004806824>] kthread+0x154/0x170
>   [<90000000060df5b4>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x24/0xd0
>   [<90000000047a62a4>] ret_from_kernel_thread_asm+0xc/0x88
> 
>   ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -110
>   amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: ttm finalized
> 
> This is because amdgpu_irq_enabled() is false in amdgpu_irq_put(), then
> the condition of WARN_ON() is true.
> 
> In order to avoid the unnecessary Call Traces, it can remove the check of
> amdgpu_irq_enabled() and only check atomic_read(&src->enabled_types[type]
> for three reasons:
> 
> (1) The aim is to prevent refcount from being less than 0, it was added in
> commit 1fa8d710573f ("drm/amdgpu: Fix desktop freezed after gpu-reset").
> (2) There are already many useful failed log before the Call Trace, there
> is no need to WARN_ON().

Well completely disagree. The call trace here is absolutely intentional.

That you get a lot of other backtraces because the driver doesn't initialize at all isn't a good rational to remove this one here.

Regards,
Christian.

> (3) The following checks in amdgpu_irq_put() are same with the checks in
> amdgpu_irq_enabled(), there is no need to do the redundant operations.
> 
> 	if (!adev->irq.installed)
> 		return -ENOENT;
> 
> 	if (type >= src->num_types)
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> 	if (!src->enabled_types || !src->funcs->set)
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1fa8d710573f ("drm/amdgpu: Fix desktop freezed after gpu-reset")
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c
> index 8112ffc85995..0d00a8d841b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c
> @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ int amdgpu_irq_put(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_irq_src *src,
>  	if (!src->enabled_types || !src->funcs->set)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	if (WARN_ON(!amdgpu_irq_enabled(adev, src, type)))
> +	if (!atomic_read(&src->enabled_types[type]))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&src->enabled_types[type]))