The context persistence code does things like send super high priority
heartbeat pulses to ensure any leaked context can still be pre-empted
and thus isn't a total denial of service but only a minor denial of
service. Unfortunately, it wasn't bothering to restart the heartbeat
worker with a fresh timeout. Thus, if a persistent context happened to
be closed just before the heartbeat was going to go ping anyway then
the forced pulse would get a negligble execution time. And as the
forced pulse is super high priority, the worker thread's next step is
a reset. Which means a potentially innocent system randomly goes boom
when attempting to close a context. So, force a re-schedule of the
worker thread with the appropriate timeout.
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240110210216.4125092-1-John.C.Harrison@Intel.com
heartbeat_commit(rq, &attr);
GEM_BUG_ON(rq->sched.attr.priority < I915_PRIORITY_BARRIER);
+ /* Ensure the forced pulse gets a full period to execute */
+ next_heartbeat(engine);
+
return 0;
}