[PATCH v3 01/12] drm: Add dummy page per device or GEM object

Andrey Grodzovsky Andrey.Grodzovsky at amd.com
Thu Jan 7 16:26:52 UTC 2021


On 1/7/21 11:21 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 04:04:16PM -0500, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
>> On 11/23/20 3:01 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>> Am 23.11.20 um 05:54 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>>>> On 11/21/20 9:15 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>>>> Am 21.11.20 um 06:21 schrieb Andrey Grodzovsky:
>>>>>> Will be used to reroute CPU mapped BO's page faults once
>>>>>> device is removed.
>>>>> Uff, one page for each exported DMA-buf? That's not something we can do.
>>>>>
>>>>> We need to find a different approach here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can't we call alloc_page() on each fault and link them together
>>>>> so they are freed when the device is finally reaped?
>>>>
>>>> For sure better to optimize and allocate on demand when we reach
>>>> this corner case, but why the linking ?
>>>> Shouldn't drm_prime_gem_destroy be good enough place to free ?
>>> I want to avoid keeping the page in the GEM object.
>>>
>>> What we can do is to allocate a page on demand for each fault and link
>>> the together in the bdev instead.
>>>
>>> And when the bdev is then finally destroyed after the last application
>>> closed we can finally release all of them.
>>>
>>> Christian.
>>
>> Hey, started to implement this and then realized that by allocating a page
>> for each fault indiscriminately
>> we will be allocating a new page for each faulting virtual address within a
>> VA range belonging the same BO
>> and this is obviously too much and not the intention. Should I instead use
>> let's say a hashtable with the hash
>> key being faulting BO address to actually keep allocating and reusing same
>> dummy zero page per GEM BO
>> (or for that matter DRM file object address for non imported BOs) ?
> Why do we need a hashtable? All the sw structures to track this should
> still be around:
> - if gem_bo->dma_buf is set the buffer is currently exported as a dma-buf,
>    so defensively allocate a per-bo page
> - otherwise allocate a per-file page


That exactly what we have in current implementation


>
> Or is the idea to save the struct page * pointer? That feels a bit like
> over-optimizing stuff. Better to have a simple implementation first and
> then tune it if (and only if) any part of it becomes a problem for normal
> usage.


Exactly - the idea is to avoid adding extra pointer to drm_gem_object,
Christian suggested to instead keep a linked list of dummy pages to be
allocated on demand once we hit a vm_fault. I will then also prefault the entire
VA range from vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start to vma->vm_end and map them
to that single dummy page.

Andrey


> -Daniel
>
>> Andrey
>>
>>
>>>> Andrey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky at amd.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c  |  8 ++++++++
>>>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>>>>>    include/drm/drm_file.h      |  2 ++
>>>>>>    include/drm/drm_gem.h       |  2 ++
>>>>>>    4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
>>>>>> index 0ac4566..ff3d39f 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c
>>>>>> @@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ struct drm_file *drm_file_alloc(struct drm_minor *minor)
>>>>>>                goto out_prime_destroy;
>>>>>>        }
>>>>>>    +    file->dummy_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>>>>>> +    if (!file->dummy_page) {
>>>>>> +        ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>>>> +        goto out_prime_destroy;
>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>        return file;
>>>>>>      out_prime_destroy:
>>>>>> @@ -289,6 +295,8 @@ void drm_file_free(struct drm_file *file)
>>>>>>        if (dev->driver->postclose)
>>>>>>            dev->driver->postclose(dev, file);
>>>>>>    +    __free_page(file->dummy_page);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>        drm_prime_destroy_file_private(&file->prime);
>>>>>>          WARN_ON(!list_empty(&file->event_list));
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> index 1693aa7..987b45c 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> @@ -335,6 +335,13 @@ int drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle(struct drm_device *dev,
>>>>>>          ret = drm_prime_add_buf_handle(&file_priv->prime,
>>>>>>                dma_buf, *handle);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    if (!ret) {
>>>>>> +        obj->dummy_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>>>>>> +        if (!obj->dummy_page)
>>>>>> +            ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>        mutex_unlock(&file_priv->prime.lock);
>>>>>>        if (ret)
>>>>>>            goto fail;
>>>>>> @@ -1020,6 +1027,9 @@ void drm_prime_gem_destroy(struct
>>>>>> drm_gem_object *obj, struct sg_table *sg)
>>>>>>            dma_buf_unmap_attachment(attach, sg, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>>>>>>        dma_buf = attach->dmabuf;
>>>>>>        dma_buf_detach(attach->dmabuf, attach);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    __free_page(obj->dummy_page);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>        /* remove the reference */
>>>>>>        dma_buf_put(dma_buf);
>>>>>>    }
>>>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_file.h b/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>>>>> index 716990b..2a011fc 100644
>>>>>> --- a/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>>>>> @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ struct drm_file {
>>>>>>         */
>>>>>>        struct drm_prime_file_private prime;
>>>>>>    +    struct page *dummy_page;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>        /* private: */
>>>>>>    #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY)
>>>>>>        unsigned long lock_count; /* DRI1 legacy lock count */
>>>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gem.h b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
>>>>>> index 337a483..76a97a3 100644
>>>>>> --- a/include/drm/drm_gem.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
>>>>>> @@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ struct drm_gem_object {
>>>>>>         *
>>>>>>         */
>>>>>>        const struct drm_gem_object_funcs *funcs;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    struct page *dummy_page;
>>>>>>    };
>>>>>>      /**
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