[PATCH 2/3] drm/amdgpu: add AMDGPU_VM_NOALLOC

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Wed May 18 08:28:10 UTC 2022


Found and fixed. If nobody has any more objections are batter names for 
the new flags I'm going to push this to amd-staging-drm-next tomorrow.

Thanks,
Christian.

Am 17.05.22 um 08:33 schrieb Christian König:
> Ok that sounds like a rather simple bug. I will try to take a look.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.
>
> Am 17.05.22 um 02:12 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>> Dmesg doesn't contain anything. There is no backtrace because it's 
>> not a crash. The VA map ioctl just fails with the new flag. It looks 
>> like the flag is considered invalid.
>>
>> Marek
>>
>> On Mon., May 16, 2022, 12:13 Christian König, 
>> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     I don't have access to any gfx10 hardware.
>>
>>     Can you give me a dmesg and/or backtrace, etc..?
>>
>>     I can't push this unless it's working properly.
>>
>>     Christian.
>>
>>     Am 16.05.22 um 14:56 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>     Reproduction steps:
>>>     - use mesa/main on gfx10.3 (not sure what other GPUs do)
>>>     - run: radeonsi_mall_noalloc=true glxgears
>>>
>>>     Marek
>>>
>>>     On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 7:53 AM Christian König
>>>     <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Crap, do you have a link to the failure?
>>>
>>>         Am 16.05.22 um 13:10 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>         I forgot to say: The NOALLOC flag causes an allocation
>>>>         failure, so there is a kernel bug somewhere.
>>>>
>>>>         Marek
>>>>
>>>>         On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 7:06 AM Marek Olšák
>>>>         <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             FYI, I think it's time to merge this because the Mesa
>>>>             commits are going to be merged in ~30 minutes if Gitlab
>>>>             CI is green, and that includes updated amdgpu_drm.h.
>>>>
>>>>             Marek
>>>>
>>>>             On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:55 PM Marek Olšák
>>>>             <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Ok sounds good.
>>>>
>>>>                 Marek
>>>>
>>>>                 On Wed., May 11, 2022, 03:43 Christian König,
>>>>                 <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                     It really *is* a NOALLOC feature. In other
>>>>                     words there is no latency improvement on reads
>>>>                     because the cache is always checked, even with
>>>>                     the noalloc flag set.
>>>>
>>>>                     The only thing it affects is that misses not
>>>>                     enter the cache and so don't cause any
>>>>                     additional pressure on evicting cache lines.
>>>>
>>>>                     You might want to double check with the
>>>>                     hardware guys, but I'm something like 95% sure
>>>>                     that it works this way.
>>>>
>>>>                     Christian.
>>>>
>>>>                     Am 11.05.22 um 09:22 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>>                     Bypass means that the contents of the cache
>>>>>                     are ignored, which decreases latency at the
>>>>>                     cost of no coherency between bypassed and
>>>>>                     normal memory requests. NOA (noalloc) means
>>>>>                     that the cache is checked and can give you
>>>>>                     cache hits, but misses are not cached and the
>>>>>                     overall latency is higher. I don't know what
>>>>>                     the hw does, but I hope it was misnamed and it
>>>>>                     really means bypass because there is no point
>>>>>                     in doing cache lookups on every memory request
>>>>>                     if the driver wants to disable caching to
>>>>>                     *decrease* latency in the situations when the
>>>>>                     cache isn't helping.
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Marek
>>>>>
>>>>>                     On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:15 AM Lazar, Lijo
>>>>>                     <lijo.lazar at amd.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                         On 5/11/2022 11:36 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>>>>                         > Mhm, it doesn't really bypass MALL. It
>>>>>                         just doesn't allocate any MALL
>>>>>                         > entries on write.
>>>>>                         >
>>>>>                         > How about AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NO_MALL ?
>>>>>
>>>>>                         One more - AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_LLC_* [ LLC =
>>>>>                         last level cache, * = some sort
>>>>>                         of attribute which decides LLC behaviour]
>>>>>
>>>>>                         Thanks,
>>>>>                         Lijo
>>>>>
>>>>>                         >
>>>>>                         > Christian.
>>>>>                         >
>>>>>                         > Am 10.05.22 um 23:21 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>>                         >> A better name would be:
>>>>>                         >> AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_BYPASS_MALL
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >> Marek
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 7:23 AM
>>>>>                         Christian König
>>>>>                         >> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>     Add the AMDGPU_VM_NOALLOC flag to
>>>>>                         let userspace control MALL
>>>>>                         >>     allocation.
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>     Only compile tested!
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>  Signed-off-by: Christian König
>>>>>                         <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>>>>>                         >>     ---
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                           drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>>                         | 2 ++
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                           drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c |
>>>>>                         3 +++
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                           drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c |
>>>>>                         3 +++
>>>>>                         >>   include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h        
>>>>>                          | 2 ++
>>>>>                         >>      4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>     diff --git
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>>                         >>  b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>>                         >>     index bf97d8f07f57..d8129626581f 100644
>>>>>                         >>     ---
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>>                         >>     +++
>>>>>                         b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>>                         >>     @@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ uint64_t
>>>>>                         amdgpu_gem_va_map_flags(struct
>>>>>                         >>  amdgpu_device *adev, uint32_t flags)
>>>>>                         >>     pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_WRITEABLE;
>>>>>                         >>             if (flags & AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_PRT)
>>>>>                         >>     pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>>                         >>     +       if (flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NOALLOC)
>>>>>                         >>     +      pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>             if
>>>>>                         (adev->gmc.gmc_funcs->map_mtype)
>>>>>                         >>     pte_flag |= amdgpu_gmc_map_mtype(adev,
>>>>>                         >>     diff --git
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>>                         >>  b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     index b8c79789e1e4..9077dfccaf3c 100644
>>>>>                         >>     ---
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     +++
>>>>>                         b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     @@ -613,6 +613,9 @@ static void
>>>>>                         gmc_v10_0_get_vm_pte(struct
>>>>>                         >>  amdgpu_device *adev,
>>>>>                         >> *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK;
>>>>>                         >> *flags |= (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK);
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>     +  *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>>                         >>     +  *flags |= (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC);
>>>>>                         >>     +
>>>>>                         >>             if (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_PRT) {
>>>>>                         >>     *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>>                         >>     *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_SNOOPED;
>>>>>                         >>     diff --git
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>>                         >>  b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     index 8d733eeac556..32ee56adb602 100644
>>>>>                         >>     ---
>>>>>                         a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     +++
>>>>>                         b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>>                         >>     @@ -508,6 +508,9 @@ static void
>>>>>                         gmc_v11_0_get_vm_pte(struct
>>>>>                         >>  amdgpu_device *adev,
>>>>>                         >> *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK;
>>>>>                         >> *flags |= (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK);
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>     +  *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>>                         >>     +  *flags |= (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC);
>>>>>                         >>     +
>>>>>                         >>             if (mapping->flags &
>>>>>                         AMDGPU_PTE_PRT) {
>>>>>                         >>     *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>>                         >>     *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_SNOOPED;
>>>>>                         >>     diff --git
>>>>>                         a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>>                         >>  b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>>                         >>     index 57b9d8f0133a..9d71d6330687 100644
>>>>>                         >>     --- a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>>                         >>     +++ b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>>                         >>     @@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ struct
>>>>>                         drm_amdgpu_gem_op {
>>>>>                         >>      #define AMDGPU_VM_MTYPE_UC      
>>>>>                          (4 << 5)
>>>>>                         >>      /* Use Read Write MTYPE instead of
>>>>>                         default MTYPE */
>>>>>                         >>      #define AMDGPU_VM_MTYPE_RW      
>>>>>                          (5 << 5)
>>>>>                         >>     +/* don't allocate MALL */
>>>>>                         >>     +#define AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NOALLOC    
>>>>>                            (1 << 9)
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >>      struct drm_amdgpu_gem_va {
>>>>>                         >>             /** GEM object handle */
>>>>>                         >>     --
>>>>>                         >>     2.25.1
>>>>>                         >>
>>>>>                         >
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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