[Freedreno] [PATCH v7 06/15] dma-buf/sync_file: Support (E)POLLPRI

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:35:12 -0800
Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
> 
> Allow userspace to use the EPOLLPRI/POLLPRI flag to indicate an urgent
> wait (as opposed to a "housekeeping" wait to know when to cleanup after
> some work has completed).  Usermode components of GPU driver stacks
> often poll() on fence fd's to know when it is safe to do things like
> free or reuse a buffer, but they can also poll() on a fence fd when
> waiting to read back results from the GPU.  The EPOLLPRI/POLLPRI flag
> lets the kernel differentiate these two cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
> index 418021cfb87c..cbe96295373b 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ static __poll_t sync_file_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
>  {
>  	struct sync_file *sync_file = file->private_data;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * The POLLPRI/EPOLLPRI flag can be used to signal that
> +	 * userspace wants the fence to signal ASAP, express this
> +	 * as an immediate deadline.
> +	 */
> +	if (poll_requested_events(wait) & EPOLLPRI)
> +		dma_fence_set_deadline(sync_file->fence, ktime_get());

Hi,

I don't think this doc will appear anywhere where it could be found,
maybe not in kernel HTML doc at all?

I also think this is not a good idea, but not my call.


Thanks,
pq


> +
>  	poll_wait(file, &sync_file->wq, wait);
>  
>  	if (list_empty(&sync_file->cb.node) &&

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