[PATCH 1/2] drm/sched: add drm_sched_prealloc_dependency_slots v2

[Philipp Stanner]

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 16:58 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Sometimes drivers need to be able to submit multiple jobs which
> depend on
> each other to different schedulers at the same time, but using
> drm_sched_job_add_dependency() can't fail any more after the first
> job is
> initialized.
> 
> This function preallocate memory for dependency slots so that no
> ENOMEM
> can come later while adding dependencies.
> 
> v2: rework implementation an documentation

For drm/sched Danilo & I think that changelogs shouldn't be in the
commit message anymore. The Link: applied by the DRM tools will be
sufficient to find the history in the archives if necessary.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 44
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h            |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> index 4d4219fbe49d..ee3701f346b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> @@ -852,6 +852,39 @@ void drm_sched_job_arm(struct drm_sched_job
> *job)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_arm);
>  
> +/**
> + * drm_sched_job_prealloc_dependency_slots - avoid ENOMEM on adding
> dependencies
> + * @job: scheduler job where dependencies will be added
> + * @num_deps: number of dependencies to preallocate slots for
> +  *
> + * Sometimes drivers need to be able to submit multiple jobs which
> depend on
> + * each other to different schedulers at the same time, but using
> + * drm_sched_job_add_dependency() can't fail any more after the
> first job is
> + * initialized.
> + *
> + * This function preallocate memory for dependency slots so that no
> ENOMEM can
> + * come later while adding dependencies.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * 0 on success, or an error on failing to expand the array.
> + */
> +int drm_sched_job_prealloc_dependency_slots(struct drm_sched_job
> *job,
> +					    unsigned int num_deps)
> +{
> +	u32 id = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	while (num_deps--) {
> +		ret = xa_alloc(&job->dependencies, &id,
> XA_ZERO_ENTRY,
> +			       xa_limit_32b, GFP_KERNEL);

Fine by me, but out of curiousity about the xarray: you mentioned
xa_reserve() might work, too?


P.

> +		if (ret != 0)
> +			return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_prealloc_dependency_slots);
> +
>  /**
>   * drm_sched_job_add_dependency - adds the fence as a job dependency
>   * @job: scheduler job to add the dependencies to
> @@ -878,10 +911,15 @@ int drm_sched_job_add_dependency(struct
> drm_sched_job *job,
>  	 * engines involved, rather than the number of BOs.
>  	 */
>  	xa_for_each(&job->dependencies, index, entry) {
> -		if (entry->context != fence->context)
> +		if (xa_is_zero(entry)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * Reserved entries must not alloc memory,
> but let's
> +			 * use GFP_ATOMIC just to be on the
> defensive side.
> +			*/
> +			xa_store(&job->dependencies, index, fence,
> GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		} else if (entry->context != fence->context) {
>  			continue;
> -
> -		if (dma_fence_is_later(fence, entry)) {
> +		} else if (dma_fence_is_later(fence, entry)) {
>  			dma_fence_put(entry);
>  			xa_store(&job->dependencies, index, fence,
> GFP_KERNEL);
>  		} else {
> diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> index 1a7e377d4cbb..916e820b27ff 100644
> --- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> +++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> @@ -632,6 +632,8 @@ int drm_sched_job_init(struct drm_sched_job *job,
>  		       u32 credits, void *owner);
>  void drm_sched_job_arm(struct drm_sched_job *job);
>  void drm_sched_entity_push_job(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job);
> +int drm_sched_job_prealloc_dependency_slots(struct drm_sched_job
> *job,
> +					    unsigned int num_deps);
>  int drm_sched_job_add_dependency(struct drm_sched_job *job,
>  				 struct dma_fence *fence);
>  int drm_sched_job_add_syncobj_dependency(struct drm_sched_job *job,