[PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Implement SINGLE_TIMELINE with a syncobj

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Fri Mar 19 22:38:56 UTC 2021


I'd love to delete the SINGLE_TIMELINE API because it leaks an
implementation detail of contexts through to the API and is something
that userspace can do itself, trivially.  Unfortunately, it's used by
the media driver so we can't do that.  We can, however, do the next-best
thing which is to embed a syncobj in the context and do exactly what
we'd expect from userspace internally.

This has a couple of advantages.  One is that we're no longer leaking a
detail of the current execlist scheduler which will be problematic when
we try to add GuC scheduling.  Second is that, together with deleting
the CLONE_CONTEXT API, we should now have a 1:1 mapping between
intel_context and intel_timeline which should make some of our locking
mess a bit easier.

Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c   | 47 ++++---------------
 .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h |  8 +++-
 .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c    | 15 ++++++
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
index f88bac19333ec..e094f4a1ca4cd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
 #include <linux/log2.h>
 #include <linux/nospec.h>
 
+#include <drm/drm_syncobj.h>
+
 #include "gt/gen6_ppgtt.h"
 #include "gt/intel_context.h"
 #include "gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.h"
@@ -224,10 +226,6 @@ static void intel_context_set_gem(struct intel_context *ce,
 		ce->vm = vm;
 	}
 
-	GEM_BUG_ON(ce->timeline);
-	if (ctx->timeline)
-		ce->timeline = intel_timeline_get(ctx->timeline);
-
 	if (ctx->sched.priority >= I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL &&
 	    intel_engine_has_timeslices(ce->engine))
 		__set_bit(CONTEXT_USE_SEMAPHORES, &ce->flags);
@@ -344,8 +342,8 @@ void i915_gem_context_release(struct kref *ref)
 	mutex_destroy(&ctx->engines_mutex);
 	mutex_destroy(&ctx->lut_mutex);
 
-	if (ctx->timeline)
-		intel_timeline_put(ctx->timeline);
+	if (ctx->syncobj)
+		drm_syncobj_put(ctx->syncobj);
 
 	put_pid(ctx->pid);
 	mutex_destroy(&ctx->mutex);
@@ -790,33 +788,11 @@ static void __assign_ppgtt(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
 		i915_vm_close(vm);
 }
 
-static void __set_timeline(struct intel_timeline **dst,
-			   struct intel_timeline *src)
-{
-	struct intel_timeline *old = *dst;
-
-	*dst = src ? intel_timeline_get(src) : NULL;
-
-	if (old)
-		intel_timeline_put(old);
-}
-
-static void __apply_timeline(struct intel_context *ce, void *timeline)
-{
-	__set_timeline(&ce->timeline, timeline);
-}
-
-static void __assign_timeline(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
-			      struct intel_timeline *timeline)
-{
-	__set_timeline(&ctx->timeline, timeline);
-	context_apply_all(ctx, __apply_timeline, timeline);
-}
-
 static struct i915_gem_context *
 i915_gem_create_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	struct i915_gem_context *ctx;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (flags & I915_CONTEXT_CREATE_FLAGS_SINGLE_TIMELINE &&
 	    !HAS_EXECLISTS(i915))
@@ -845,16 +821,13 @@ i915_gem_create_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags)
 	}
 
 	if (flags & I915_CONTEXT_CREATE_FLAGS_SINGLE_TIMELINE) {
-		struct intel_timeline *timeline;
-
-		timeline = intel_timeline_create(&i915->gt);
-		if (IS_ERR(timeline)) {
+		ret = drm_syncobj_create(&ctx->syncobj,
+					 DRM_SYNCOBJ_CREATE_SIGNALED,
+					 NULL);
+		if (ret) {
 			context_close(ctx);
-			return ERR_CAST(timeline);
+			return ERR_PTR(ret);
 		}
-
-		__assign_timeline(ctx, timeline);
-		intel_timeline_put(timeline);
 	}
 
 	trace_i915_context_create(ctx);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
index 676592e27e7d2..8a5fdd163b79d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
@@ -83,7 +83,13 @@ struct i915_gem_context {
 	struct i915_gem_engines __rcu *engines;
 	struct mutex engines_mutex; /* guards writes to engines */
 
-	struct intel_timeline *timeline;
+	/**
+	 * @syncobj: Shared timeline syncobj
+	 *
+	 * When the SHARED_TIMELINE flag is set on context creation, this
+	 * provides automatic implicit synchronization across all engines.
+	 */
+	struct drm_syncobj *syncobj;
 
 	/**
 	 * @vm: unique address space (GTT)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 96403130a373d..2c56796f6a71b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -3295,6 +3295,15 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev,
 		goto err_vma;
 	}
 
+	if (eb.gem_context->syncobj) {
+		struct dma_fence *fence;
+
+		fence = drm_syncobj_fence_get(eb.gem_context->syncobj);
+		err = i915_request_await_dma_fence(eb.request, fence);
+		if (err)
+			goto err_ext;
+	}
+
 	if (in_fence) {
 		if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_FENCE_SUBMIT)
 			err = i915_request_await_execution(eb.request,
@@ -3351,6 +3360,12 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev,
 			fput(out_fence->file);
 		}
 	}
+
+	if (eb.gem_context->syncobj) {
+		drm_syncobj_replace_fence(eb.gem_context->syncobj,
+					  &eb.request->fence);
+	}
+
 	i915_request_put(eb.request);
 
 err_vma:
-- 
2.29.2



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