[RFC 03/17] dma-fence: prime lockdep annotations

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue May 12 08:59:30 UTC 2020


Two in one go:
- it is allowed to call dma_fence_wait() while holding a
  dma_resv_lock(). This is fundamental to how eviction works with ttm,
  so required.

- it is allowed to call dma_fence_wait() from memory reclaim contexts,
  specifically from shrinker callbacks (which i915 does), and from mmu
  notifier callbacks (which amdgpu does, and which i915 sometimes also
  does, and probably always should, but that's kinda a debate). Also
  for stuff like HMM we really need to be able to do this, or things
  get real dicey.

Consequence is that any critical path necessary to get to a
dma_fence_signal for a fence must never a) call dma_resv_lock nor b)
allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. Also by implication of
dma_resv_lock(), no userspace faulting allowed. That's some supremely
obnoxious limitations, which is why we need to sprinkle the right
annotations to all relevant paths.

The one big locking context we're leaving out here is mmu notifiers,
added in

commit 23b68395c7c78a764e8963fc15a7cfd318bf187f
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date:   Mon Aug 26 22:14:21 2019 +0200

    mm/mmu_notifiers: add a lockdep map for invalidate_range_start/end

that one covers a lot of other callsites, and it's also allowed to
wait on dma-fences from mmu notifiers. But there's no ready-made
functions exposed to prime this, so I've left it out for now.

Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig at lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
Cc: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c | 1 +
 include/linux/dma-fence.h  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
index 99c0a33c918d..392c336f0732 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ static int __init dma_resv_lockdep(void)
 	if (ret == -EDEADLK)
 		dma_resv_lock_slow(&obj, &ctx);
 	fs_reclaim_acquire(GFP_KERNEL);
+	__dma_fence_might_wait();
 	fs_reclaim_release(GFP_KERNEL);
 	ww_mutex_unlock(&obj.lock);
 	ww_acquire_fini(&ctx);
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence.h b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
index 3f288f7db2ef..09e23adb351d 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-fence.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(struct dma_fence __rcu **fencep)
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
 bool dma_fence_begin_signalling(void);
 void dma_fence_end_signalling(bool cookie);
+void __dma_fence_might_wait(void);
 #else
 static inline bool dma_fence_begin_signalling(void)
 {
-- 
2.26.2



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