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We have long standing customer complaints that pressing Ctrl-C (or to the effect of) causes engine resets with otherwise well behaving programs. Not only is logging engine resets during normal operation not desirable since it creates support incidents, but more fundamentally we should avoid going the engine reset path when we can since any engine reset introduces a chance of harming an innocent context. Reason for this undesirable behaviour is that the driver currently does not distinguish between banned contexts and non-persistent contexts which have been closed. To fix this we add the distinction between the two reasons for revoking contexts, which then allows the strict timeout only be applied to banned, while innocent contexts (well behaving) can preempt cleanly and exit without triggering the engine reset path. Note that the added context exiting category applies both to closed non- persistent context, and any exiting context when hangcheck has been disabled by the user. At the same time we rename the backend operation from 'ban' to 'revoke' which more accurately describes the actual semantics. (There is no ban at the backend level since banning is a concept driven by the scheduling frontend. Backends are simply able to revoke a running context so that is the more appropriate name chosen.) Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220527072452.2225610-1-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.