[PATCH v3 05/12] drm/ttm: Expose ttm_tt_unpopulate for driver use

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Dec 18 14:30:26 UTC 2020


On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 04:06:38PM -0500, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> 
> On 12/17/20 3:48 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:38 PM Andrey Grodzovsky
> > <Andrey.Grodzovsky at amd.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 12/17/20 3:10 PM, Christian König wrote:
> > > > [SNIP]
> > > > > > > By eliminating such users, and replacing them with local maps which
> > > > > > > > are strictly bound in how long they can exist (and hence we can
> > > > > > > > serialize against them finishing in our hotunplug code).
> > > > > > > Not sure I see how serializing against BO map/unmap helps - our problem as
> > > > > > > you described is that once
> > > > > > > device is extracted and then something else quickly takes it's place in the
> > > > > > > PCI topology
> > > > > > > and gets assigned same physical IO ranges, then our driver will start
> > > > > > > accessing this
> > > > > > > new device because our 'zombie' BOs are still pointing to those ranges.
> > > > > > Until your driver's remove callback is finished the ranges stay reserved.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The ranges stay reserved until unmapped which happens in bo->destroy
> > > > I'm not sure of that. Why do you think that?
> > > 
> > > Because of this sequence
> > > ttm_bo_release->destroy->amdgpu_bo_destroy->amdgpu_bo_kunmap->...->iounmap
> > > Is there another place I am missing ?
> > iounmap is just the mapping, it doesn't reserve anything in the resource tree.
> > 
> > And I don't think we should keep resources reserved past the pci
> > remove callback, because that would upset the pci subsystem trying to
> > assign resources to a newly hotplugged pci device.
> 
> 
> I assumed we are talking about VA ranges still mapped in the page table. I
> just assumed
> that part of ioremap is also reservation of the mapped physical ranges. In
> fact, if we
> do can explicitly reserve those ranges (as you mention here) then together
> with postponing
> system memory pages freeing/releasing back to the page pool until after BO
> is unmapped
> from the kernel address space I believe this could solve the issue of quick
> HW reinsertion
> and make all the drm_dev_ener/exit guarding obsolete.

We can't reserve these ranges, that's what I tried to explaine:
- kernel/resource.c isn't very consistently used
- the pci core will get pissed if there's suddenly a range in the middle
  of a bridge that it can't use
- nesting is allowed for resources, so this doesn't actually garuantee
  much

I just wanted to point out that ioremap does do any reserving, so not
enough by far.

We really have to stop using any mmio ranges before the pci remove
callback is finished.
-Daniel

> 
> Andrey
> 
> 
> > Also from a quick check amdgpu does not reserve the pci bars it's
> > using. Somehow most drm drivers don't do that, not exactly sure why,
> > maybe auto-enumeration of resources just works too good and we don't
> > need the safety net of kernel/resource.c anymore.
> > -Daniel
> > 
> > 
> > > > > which for most internally allocated buffers is during sw_fini when last drm_put
> > > > > is called.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > If that's not the case, then hotunplug would be fundamentally impossible
> > > > > > ot handle correctly.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Of course all the mmio actions will time out, so it might take some time
> > > > > > to get through it all.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I found that PCI code provides pci_device_is_present function
> > > > > we can use to avoid timeouts - it reads device vendor and checks if all 1s is
> > > > > returned
> > > > > or not. We can call it from within register accessors before trying read/write
> > > > That's way to much overhead! We need to keep that much lower or it will result
> > > > in quite a performance drop.
> > > > 
> > > > I suggest to rather think about adding drm_dev_enter/exit guards.
> > > 
> > > Sure, this one is just a bit upstream to the disconnect event. Eventually none
> > > of them is watertight.
> > > 
> > > Andrey
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Christian.
> > > > 
> > > > > > > Another point regarding serializing - problem  is that some of those BOs are
> > > > > > > very long lived, take for example the HW command
> > > > > > > ring buffer Christian mentioned before -
> > > > > > > (amdgpu_ring_init->amdgpu_bo_create_kernel), it's life span
> > > > > > > is basically for the entire time the device exists, it's destroyed only in
> > > > > > > the SW fini stage (when last drm_dev
> > > > > > > reference is dropped) and so should I grab it's dma_resv_lock from
> > > > > > > amdgpu_pci_remove code and wait
> > > > > > > for it to be unmapped before proceeding with the PCI remove code ? This can
> > > > > > > take unbound time and that why I don't understand
> > > > > > > how serializing will help.
> > > > > > Uh you need to untangle that. After hw cleanup is done no one is allowed
> > > > > > to touch that ringbuffer bo anymore from the kernel.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would assume we are not allowed to touch it once we identified the device is
> > > > > gone in order to minimize the chance of accidental writes to some other
> > > > > device which might now
> > > > > occupy those IO ranges ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > >    That's what
> > > > > > drm_dev_enter/exit guards are for. Like you say we cant wait for all sw
> > > > > > references to disappear.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, didn't make sense to me why would we use vmap_local for internally
> > > > > allocated buffers. I think we should also guard registers read/writes for the
> > > > > same reason as above.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > The vmap_local is for mappings done by other drivers, through the dma-buf
> > > > > > interface (where "other drivers" can include fbdev/fbcon, if you use the
> > > > > > generic helpers).
> > > > > > -Daniel
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ok, so I assumed that with vmap_local you were trying to solve the problem of
> > > > > quick reinsertion
> > > > > of another device into same MMIO range that my driver still points too but
> > > > > actually are you trying to solve
> > > > > the issue of exported dma buffers outliving the device ? For this we have
> > > > > drm_device refcount in the GEM layer
> > > > > i think.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Andrey
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > Andrey
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > It doesn't
> > > > > > > > solve all your problems, but it's a tool to get there.
> > > > > > > > -Daniel
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Andrey
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > - handle fbcon somehow. I think shutting it all down should work out.
> > > > > > > > > > - worst case keep the system backing storage around for shared dma-buf
> > > > > > > > > > until the other non-dynamic driver releases it. for vram we require
> > > > > > > > > > dynamic importers (and maybe it wasn't such a bright idea to allow
> > > > > > > > > > pinning of importer buffers, might need to revisit that).
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Cheers, Daniel
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > Christian.
> > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > Andrey
> > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > -Daniel
> > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Christian.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I loaded the driver with vm_update_mode=3
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > meaning all VM updates done using CPU and hasn't seen any OOPs after
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > removing the device. I guess i can test it more by allocating GTT and
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > VRAM BOs
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and trying to read/write to them after device is removed.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Andrey
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Christian.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Andrey
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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