[PATCH 0/2] Change order of linkage in kernel makefiles for amdkfd

From: Oded Gabbay
Date: Mon Dec 22 2014 - 06:07:45 EST


This small patch-set, was created to solve the bug described at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89661 (Kernel panic when
trying use amdkfd driver on Kaveri). It replaces the previous patch-set called
[PATCH 0/3] Use workqueue for device init in amdkfd
(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-December/074401.html)

That bug appears only when radeon, amdkfd and amd_iommu_v2 are compiled
inside the kernel (not as modules). In that case, the correct loading
order, as determined by the exported symbol used by each driver, is
not enforced anymore and the kernel loads them based on who was linked
first. That makes radeon load first, amdkfd second and amd_iommu_v2
third.

Because the initialization of a device in amdkfd is initiated by radeon,
and can only be completed if amdkfd and amd_iommu_v2 were loaded and
initialized, then in the case mentioned above, this initalization fails
and there is a kernel panic as some pointers are not initialized but
used nontheless.

To solve this bug, this patch-set moves iommu/ before gpu/ in drivers/Makefile
and also moves amdkfd/ before radeon/ in drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile.

The rationale is that in general, AMD GPU devices are dependent on AMD IOMMU
controller functionality to allow the GPU to access a process's virtual memory
address space, without the need for pinning the memory. That's why it makes
sense to initialize the iommu/ subsystem ahead of the gpu/ subsystem.

Oded

Oded Gabbay (2):
drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile
drm: Put amdkfd before radeon in drm Makefile

drivers/Makefile | 6 ++++--
drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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