[PATCH] i915: Add support for drm syncobjs

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Wed Jul 5 19:02:26 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
wrote:

> Quoting Jason Ekstrand (2017-07-05 19:32:21)
> > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Quoting Jason Ekstrand (2017-07-05 18:21:22)
> >     > This commit adds support for waiting on or signaling DRM syncobjs
> as
> >     > part of execbuf.  It does so by hijacking the currently unused
> cliprects
> >     > pointer to instead point to an array of i915_gem_exec_fence structs
> >     > which containe a DRM syncobj and a flags parameter which specifies
> >     > whether to wait on it or to signal it.  This implementation
> >     > theoretically allows for both flags to be set in which case it
> waits on
> >     > the dma_fence that was in the syncobj and then immediately
> replaces it
> >     > with the dma_fence from the current execbuf.
> >     >
> >     > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >     > ---
> >     >
> >     > Ideally, I'd like to get whatever kernel reviewing and/or merging
> is
> >     > required to land the userspace bits ASAP.  That said, I understand
> that
> >     > this is my first kernel patch and it's liable to have a few rounds
> of
> >     > review before going in.  :-)
> >     >
> >     > The mesa branch for using this in Vulkan can be found here:
> >     >
> >     > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jekstrand/mesa/log/?h=review/
> anv-syncobj
> >     >
> >     >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c            |  3 +-
> >     >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 97
> >     ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >     >  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                | 30 ++++++++-
> >     >  3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >     >
> >     > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_
> >     drv.c
> >     > index 9167a73..e6f7f49 100644
> >     > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> >     > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> >     > @@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ static int i915_getparam(struct drm_device
> *dev, void
> >     *data,
> >     >         case I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_FENCE:
> >     >         case I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_CAPTURE:
> >     >         case I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST:
> >     > +       case I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_FENCE_ARRAY:
> >     >                 /* For the time being all of these are always true;
> >     >                  * if some supported hardware does not have one of
> these
> >     >                  * features this value needs to be provided from
> >     > @@ -2734,7 +2735,7 @@ static struct drm_driver driver = {
> >     >          */
> >     >         .driver_features =
> >     >             DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ | DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED | DRIVER_GEM |
> >     DRIVER_PRIME |
> >     > -           DRIVER_RENDER | DRIVER_MODESET | DRIVER_ATOMIC,
> >     > +           DRIVER_RENDER | DRIVER_MODESET | DRIVER_ATOMIC |
> >     DRIVER_SYNCOBJ,
> >     >         .release = i915_driver_release,
> >     >         .open = i915_driver_open,
> >     >         .lastclose = i915_driver_lastclose,
> >     > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm
> >     /i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> >     > index 929f275..81b7b7b 100644
> >     > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> >     > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> >     > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> >     >
> >     >  #include <drm/drmP.h>
> >     >  #include <drm/i915_drm.h>
> >     > +#include <drm/drm_syncobj.h>
> >     >
> >     >  #include "i915_drv.h"
> >     >  #include "i915_gem_clflush.h"
> >     > @@ -1882,8 +1883,10 @@ static bool i915_gem_check_execbuffer(
> struct
> >     drm_i915_gem_execbuffer2 *exec)
> >     >                 return false;
> >     >
> >     >         /* Kernel clipping was a DRI1 misfeature */
> >     > -       if (exec->num_cliprects || exec->cliprects_ptr)
> >     > -               return false;
> >     > +       if (!(exec->flags & I915_EXEC_FENCE_ARRAY)) {
> >     > +               if (exec->num_cliprects || exec->cliprects_ptr)
> >     > +                       return false;
> >     > +       }
> >     >
> >     >         if (exec->DR4 == 0xffffffff) {
> >     >                 DRM_DEBUG("UXA submitting garbage DR4, fixing
> up\n");
> >     > @@ -2118,12 +2121,15 @@ static int
> >     >  i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev,
> >     >                        struct drm_file *file,
> >     >                        struct drm_i915_gem_execbuffer2 *args,
> >     > -                      struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *exec)
> >     > +                      struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *exec,
> >     > +                      struct drm_i915_gem_exec_fence *fences)
> >     >  {
> >     >         struct i915_execbuffer eb;
> >     >         struct dma_fence *in_fence = NULL;
> >     >         struct sync_file *out_fence = NULL;
> >     > +       struct drm_syncobj **syncobjs = NULL;
> >     >         int out_fence_fd = -1;
> >     > +       unsigned int i;
> >     >         int err;
> >     >
> >     >         BUILD_BUG_ON(__EXEC_OBJECT_INTERNAL_FLAGS &
> >     > @@ -2186,9 +2192,30 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device
> *dev,
> >     >                 }
> >     >         }
> >     >
> >     > +       if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_FENCE_ARRAY) {
> >     > +               syncobjs = kvmalloc_array(args->num_cliprects,
> >     > +                                         sizeof(*syncobjs),
> >     > +                                         __GFP_NOWARN |
> GFP_TEMPORARY |
> >     > +                                         __GFP_ZERO);
> >     > +               if (syncobjs == NULL) {
> >     > +                       DRM_DEBUG("Failed to allocate array of %d
> >     syncobjs\n",
> >     > +                                 args->num_cliprects);
> >     > +                       err = -ENOMEM;
> >     > +                       goto err_out_fence;
> >     > +               }
> >     > +               for (i = 0; i < args->num_cliprects; i++) {
> >     > +                       syncobjs[i] = drm_syncobj_find(file, fences
> >     [i].handle);
> >     > +                       if (!syncobjs[i]) {
> >     > +                               DRM_DEBUG("Invalid syncobj handle
> >     provided\n");
> >     > +                               err = -EINVAL;
> >     > +                               goto err_syncobjs;
> >     > +                       }
> >     > +               }
> >
> >     I did this in the caller so that we only allocated and passed in a
> single
> >     array of drm_syncobj (with the flags packed into the low bits).
> >
> >
> > Packing things into the low bits seems a bit sketchy but it works so
> long as we
> > only have the two flag bits.
> >
> >
> >     > +       }
> >     > +
> >     >         err = eb_create(&eb);
> >     >         if (err)
> >     > -               goto err_out_fence;
> >     > +               goto err_syncobjs;
> >     >
> >     >         GEM_BUG_ON(!eb.lut_size);
> >     >
> >     > @@ -2304,6 +2331,16 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device
> *dev,
> >     >                         goto err_request;
> >     >         }
> >     >
> >     > +       if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_FENCE_ARRAY) {
> >     > +               for (i = 0; i < args->num_cliprects; i++) {
> >     > +                       if (fences[i].flags &
> I915_EXEC_FENCE_WAIT) {
> >     > +                               if (i915_gem_request_await_dma_
> fence
> >     (eb.request,
> >     > +
>
> >     syncobjs[i]->fence))
> >     > +                                       goto err_request;
> >     > +                       }
> >     > +               }
> >     > +       }
> >     > +
> >     >         if (out_fence_fd != -1) {
> >     >                 out_fence = sync_file_create(&eb.request->fence);
> >     >                 if (!out_fence) {
> >     > @@ -2312,6 +2349,20 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device
> *dev,
> >     >                 }
> >     >         }
> >     >
> >     > +    /* We need to add fences to syncobjs last because doing so
> mutates
> >     the
> >     > +     * syncobj and we have no good way to recover if the execbuf
> fails
> >     > +     * after this point.  Fortunately, drm_syncobj_replace_fence
> can
> >     never
> >     > +     * fail.
> >     > +     */
> >     > +       if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_FENCE_ARRAY) {
> >     > +               for (i = 0; i < args->num_cliprects; i++) {
> >     > +                       if (fences[i].flags &
> I915_EXEC_FENCE_SIGNAL) {
> >     > +                               drm_syncobj_replace_fence(file,
> syncobjs
> >     [i],
> >     > +
>  &eb.request->
> >     fence);
> >     > +                       }
> >     > +               }
> >     > +       }
> >     > +
> >
> >     This has to be after the execbuf is submitted, next to where
> out_fence
> >     is attached is a good spot, and should only be updated on success.
> (The
> >     kernel API allows combining of FENCE_WAIT | FENCE_SIGNAL so we can
> only
> >     replace a FENCE_WAIT once we know we have committed the execbuf.)
> >
> >
> > It's currently right after we call
> >
> >         out_fence = sync_file_create(&eb.request->fence);
>
> That's where we create the out fence, not where we attach it to the
> request, see the fd_install, which is after we have successfully
> committed the request.
>
> > which is before eb_submit().  Are sync files wrong?  Note that I was
> careful to
> > ensure that there are no error paths after syncobj_replace_fence so we
> know for
> > 100% sure that it will be committed, hence the comment.
>
> There's the rather big one in eb_submit() that will generate EINTR for
> your pain.
>

Oh. :(  I see it now.  I'll move to right around fd_install()


> >     I moved all of these to little functions: get_fence_array,
> >     await_fence_array, signal_fence_array and put_fence_array.
> >
> >
> > You clearly have a version of this patch somewhere.  Where can I find it?
>
> It's still on the older syncobj api, I am easily distracted. :|
>

That's ok.  If you could just point me at it, I'm happy to either pull the
good ideas into mine or rebase it, whichever is easier.
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