[RFC PATCH 2/3] drm/xe: Log when a timed out TLB invalidation ack finally arrives

Tales A. Mendonça <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:14:40 -0300
Newsgroups org.freedesktop.lists.intel-xe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When a TLB invalidation fence times out we log the timeout, but if the
ack for that seqno later shows up there is no record of it, making it
impossible to tell from logs whether the ack was lost forever or merely
(very) late.

Track the most recent timed out seqno and log how late its ack arrives,
relative to both the original request and the moment the fence was
signaled with -ETIME.

On ARL with GuC 70.53.0 this shows the acks are never lost: they
consistently arrive ~2.3s after the request, tens of milliseconds after
the TDR has already signaled the fence:

  TLB invalidation fence timeout, seqno=10992 recv=10991
  TLB invalidation late ack: seqno=10992 recv=10992, request-to-ack=2314ms, timeout-to-ack=45ms

Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/work_items/8678
Signed-off-by: Tales A. Mendonça <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval.c       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval_types.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval.c
index 833fb92cd3e..9dd04d5bc4c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval.c
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ static void xe_tlb_inval_fence_timeout(struct work_struct *work)
 			fence->seqno, tlb_inval->seqno_recv);
 
 		timedout_seqno = fence->seqno;
+		tlb_inval->timedout_seqno = fence->seqno;
+		tlb_inval->timedout_inval_time = fence->inval_time;
+		tlb_inval->timedout_time = ktime_get();
 
 		fence->base.error = -ETIME;
 		xe_tlb_inval_fence_signal(fence);
@@ -227,6 +230,7 @@ void xe_tlb_inval_reset(struct xe_tlb_inval *tlb_inval)
 	else
 		pending_seqno = tlb_inval->seqno - 1;
 	WRITE_ONCE(tlb_inval->seqno_recv, pending_seqno);
+	tlb_inval->timedout_seqno = 0;
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(fence, next,
 				 &tlb_inval->pending_fences, link)
@@ -424,6 +428,18 @@ void xe_tlb_inval_done_handler(struct xe_tlb_inval *tlb_inval, int seqno)
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(tlb_inval->seqno_recv, seqno);
 
+	if (tlb_inval->timedout_seqno &&
+	    xe_tlb_inval_seqno_past(tlb_inval, tlb_inval->timedout_seqno)) {
+		ktime_t now = ktime_get();
+
+		drm_warn(&xe->drm,
+			 "TLB invalidation late ack: seqno=%d recv=%d, request-to-ack=%lldms, timeout-to-ack=%lldms",
+			 tlb_inval->timedout_seqno, seqno,
+			 ktime_ms_delta(now, tlb_inval->timedout_inval_time),
+			 ktime_ms_delta(now, tlb_inval->timedout_time));
+		tlb_inval->timedout_seqno = 0;
+	}
+
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(fence, next,
 				 &tlb_inval->pending_fences, link) {
 		trace_xe_tlb_inval_fence_recv(xe, fence);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval_types.h
index 3d1797d186f..38288966254 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tlb_inval_types.h
@@ -102,6 +102,23 @@ struct xe_tlb_inval {
 	 * @pending_lock: protects @pending_fences and updating @seqno_recv.
 	 */
 	spinlock_t pending_lock;
+	/**
+	 * @timedout_seqno: seqno of the most recent timed out TLB
+	 * invalidation, 0 if none. Used to measure how late the ack for a
+	 * timed out invalidation actually arrives. Protected by
+	 * @pending_lock.
+	 */
+	int timedout_seqno;
+	/**
+	 * @timedout_inval_time: request time of @timedout_seqno. Protected by
+	 * @pending_lock.
+	 */
+	ktime_t timedout_inval_time;
+	/**
+	 * @timedout_time: time @timedout_seqno was signaled with -ETIME.
+	 * Protected by @pending_lock.
+	 */
+	ktime_t timedout_time;
 	/**
 	 * @fence_tdr: schedules a delayed call to xe_tlb_fence_timeout after
 	 * the timeout interval is over.
-- 
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