[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 02/27] drm/i915: Mark CPU cache as dirty on every transition for CPU writes

Dongwon Kim dongwon.kim at intel.com
Wed Apr 19 16:52:28 UTC 2017


I tried your patch but it didn't fix the original 
problem. I think it is somehow related to the flushing condition
here:

@@ -1129,10 +1129,8 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_gpu(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
 	if (vma->exec_entry->flags & EXEC_OBJECT_ASYNC)
 		continue;

	if (obj->base.write_domain & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) {
+	if (obj->base.write_domain & obj->cache_dirty)
 		i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, 0);
-		obj->base.write_domain = 0;
-	}

here, we do clflush only if write_domain is not 0 even if cache_dirty
flag is set after your patch is applied.

And now please look at this:

@@ -753,6 +766,11 @@ flush_write_domain(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, unsigned int flush_domains)
        case I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU:
                i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, I915_CLFLUSH_SYNC);
                break;
+
+       case I915_GEM_DOMAIN_RENDER:
+               if (gpu_write_needs_clflush(obj))
+                       obj->cache_dirty = true;
+               break;
        }

        obj->base.write_domain=0;

So here, if the write_domain is I915_GEM_DOMAIN_RENDER, we set cache_dirty to true
then reset write_domain.

So right after this flush_write_domain call, write_domain will be 0 but cache is
still dirty. I am wondering if this is where that condition (write_domain==0 and 
cache_dirty==1) originally came from.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:41:18AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Currently, we only mark the CPU cache as dirty if we skip a clflush.
> This leads to some confusion where we have to ask if the object is in
> the write domain or missed a clflush. If we always mark the cache as
> dirty, this becomes a much simply question to answer.
> 
> The goal remains to do as few clflushes as required and to do them as
> late as possible, in the hope of deferring the work to a kthread and not
> block the caller (e.g. execbuf, flips).
> 
> Reported-by: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim at intel.com>
> Fixes: a6a7cc4b7db6 ("drm/i915: Always flush the dirty CPU cache when pinning the scanout")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim at intel.com>
> Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c                  | 78 +++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_clflush.c          | 15 +++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c       | 21 +++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_internal.c         |  3 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c          |  5 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/huge_gem_object.c |  3 +-
>  6 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 33fb11cc5acc..488ca7733c1e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static void i915_gem_flush_free_objects(struct drm_i915_private *i915);
>  
>  static bool cpu_write_needs_clflush(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  {
> -	if (obj->base.write_domain == I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU)
> +	if (obj->cache_dirty)
>  		return false;
>  
>  	if (!i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj))
> @@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ i915_gem_object_get_pages_phys(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  	return st;
>  }
>  
> +static void __start_cpu_write(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> +{
> +	obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	if (cpu_write_needs_clflush(obj))
> +		obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +}
> +
>  static void
>  __i915_gem_object_release_shmem(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  				struct sg_table *pages,
> @@ -248,8 +256,7 @@ __i915_gem_object_release_shmem(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	    !i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj))
>  		drm_clflush_sg(pages);
>  
> -	obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> -	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	__start_cpu_write(obj);
>  }
>  
>  static void
> @@ -684,6 +691,12 @@ i915_gem_dumb_create(struct drm_file *file,
>  			       args->size, &args->handle);
>  }
>  
> +static bool gpu_write_needs_clflush(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> +{
> +	return !(obj->cache_level == I915_CACHE_NONE ||
> +		 obj->cache_level == I915_CACHE_WT);
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * Creates a new mm object and returns a handle to it.
>   * @dev: drm device pointer
> @@ -753,6 +766,11 @@ flush_write_domain(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, unsigned int flush_domains)
>  	case I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU:
>  		i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, I915_CLFLUSH_SYNC);
>  		break;
> +
> +	case I915_GEM_DOMAIN_RENDER:
> +		if (gpu_write_needs_clflush(obj))
> +			obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +		break;
>  	}
>  
>  	obj->base.write_domain = 0;
> @@ -854,7 +872,8 @@ int i915_gem_obj_prepare_shmem_read(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	 * optimizes for the case when the gpu will dirty the data
>  	 * anyway again before the next pread happens.
>  	 */
> -	if (!(obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU))
> +	if (!obj->cache_dirty &&
> +	    !(obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU))
>  		*needs_clflush = CLFLUSH_BEFORE;
>  
>  out:
> @@ -906,14 +925,15 @@ int i915_gem_obj_prepare_shmem_write(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	 * This optimizes for the case when the gpu will use the data
>  	 * right away and we therefore have to clflush anyway.
>  	 */
> -	if (obj->base.write_domain != I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU)
> +	if (!obj->cache_dirty) {
>  		*needs_clflush |= CLFLUSH_AFTER;
>  
> -	/* Same trick applies to invalidate partially written cachelines read
> -	 * before writing.
> -	 */
> -	if (!(obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU))
> -		*needs_clflush |= CLFLUSH_BEFORE;
> +		/* Same trick applies to invalidate partially written
> +		 * cachelines read before writing.
> +		 */
> +		if (!(obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU))
> +			*needs_clflush |= CLFLUSH_BEFORE;
> +	}
>  
>  out:
>  	intel_fb_obj_invalidate(obj, ORIGIN_CPU);
> @@ -3374,10 +3394,12 @@ int i915_gem_wait_for_idle(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags)
>  
>  static void __i915_gem_object_flush_for_display(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  {
> -	if (obj->base.write_domain != I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU && !obj->cache_dirty)
> -		return;
> -
> -	i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, I915_CLFLUSH_FORCE);
> +	/* We manually flush the CPU domain so that we can override and
> +	 * force the flush for the display, and perform it asyncrhonously.
> +	 */
> +	flush_write_domain(obj, ~I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
> +	if (obj->cache_dirty)
> +		i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, I915_CLFLUSH_FORCE);
>  	obj->base.write_domain = 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -3636,14 +3658,17 @@ int i915_gem_object_set_cache_level(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	if (obj->base.write_domain == I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU &&
> -	    i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj))
> -		obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +	/* Catch any deferred obj->cache_dirty markups */
> +	flush_write_domain(obj, ~I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(vma, &obj->vma_list, obj_link)
>  		vma->node.color = cache_level;
>  	obj->cache_level = cache_level;
>  
> +	if (obj->base.write_domain & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU &&
> +	    cpu_write_needs_clflush(obj))
> +		obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -3864,9 +3889,6 @@ i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, bool write)
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	if (obj->base.write_domain == I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU)
> -		return 0;
> -
>  	flush_write_domain(obj, ~I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
>  
>  	/* Flush the CPU cache if it's still invalid. */
> @@ -3878,15 +3900,13 @@ i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, bool write)
>  	/* It should now be out of any other write domains, and we can update
>  	 * the domain values for our changes.
>  	 */
> -	GEM_BUG_ON((obj->base.write_domain & ~I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) != 0);
> +	GEM_BUG_ON(obj->base.write_domain & ~I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
>  
>  	/* If we're writing through the CPU, then the GPU read domains will
>  	 * need to be invalidated at next use.
>  	 */
> -	if (write) {
> -		obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> -		obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> -	}
> +	if (write)
> +		__start_cpu_write(obj);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -4306,6 +4326,8 @@ i915_gem_object_create(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u64 size)
>  	} else
>  		obj->cache_level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
>  
> +	obj->cache_dirty = !i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj);
> +
>  	trace_i915_gem_object_create(obj);
>  
>  	return obj;
> @@ -4968,10 +4990,8 @@ int i915_gem_freeze_late(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
>  	for (p = phases; *p; p++) {
> -		list_for_each_entry(obj, *p, global_link) {
> -			obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> -			obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> -		}
> +		list_for_each_entry(obj, *p, global_link)
> +			__start_cpu_write(obj);
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_clflush.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_clflush.c
> index ffd01e02fe94..a895643c4dc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_clflush.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_clflush.c
> @@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ static const struct dma_fence_ops i915_clflush_ops = {
>  static void __i915_do_clflush(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  {
>  	drm_clflush_sg(obj->mm.pages);
> -	obj->cache_dirty = false;
> -
>  	intel_fb_obj_flush(obj, ORIGIN_CPU);
>  }
>  
> @@ -82,9 +80,6 @@ static void i915_clflush_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  	struct clflush *clflush = container_of(work, typeof(*clflush), work);
>  	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj = clflush->obj;
>  
> -	if (!obj->cache_dirty)
> -		goto out;
> -
>  	if (i915_gem_object_pin_pages(obj)) {
>  		DRM_ERROR("Failed to acquire obj->pages for clflushing\n");
>  		goto out;
> @@ -132,10 +127,10 @@ void i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	 * anything not backed by physical memory we consider to be always
>  	 * coherent and not need clflushing.
>  	 */
> -	if (!i915_gem_object_has_struct_page(obj))
> +	if (!i915_gem_object_has_struct_page(obj)) {
> +		obj->cache_dirty = false;
>  		return;
> -
> -	obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +	}
>  
>  	/* If the GPU is snooping the contents of the CPU cache,
>  	 * we do not need to manually clear the CPU cache lines.  However,
> @@ -154,6 +149,8 @@ void i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	if (!(flags & I915_CLFLUSH_SYNC))
>  		clflush = kmalloc(sizeof(*clflush), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (clflush) {
> +		GEM_BUG_ON(!obj->cache_dirty);
> +
>  		dma_fence_init(&clflush->dma,
>  			       &i915_clflush_ops,
>  			       &clflush_lock,
> @@ -181,6 +178,8 @@ void i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  	} else {
>  		GEM_BUG_ON(obj->base.write_domain != I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
>  	}
> +
> +	obj->cache_dirty = false;
>  }
>  
>  void i915_gem_clflush_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> index af1965774e7b..ddc011ef5480 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline int use_cpu_reloc(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  		return DBG_USE_CPU_RELOC > 0;
>  
>  	return (HAS_LLC(to_i915(obj->base.dev)) ||
> -		obj->base.write_domain == I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU ||
> +		obj->cache_dirty ||
>  		obj->cache_level != I915_CACHE_NONE);
>  }
>  
> @@ -1129,10 +1129,8 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_gpu(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
>  		if (vma->exec_entry->flags & EXEC_OBJECT_ASYNC)
>  			continue;
>  
> -		if (obj->base.write_domain & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) {
> +		if (obj->base.write_domain & obj->cache_dirty)
>  			i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, 0);
> -			obj->base.write_domain = 0;
> -		}
>  
>  		ret = i915_gem_request_await_object
>  			(req, obj, obj->base.pending_write_domain);
> @@ -1265,12 +1263,6 @@ i915_gem_validate_context(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file,
>  	return ctx;
>  }
>  
> -static bool gpu_write_needs_clflush(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> -{
> -	return !(obj->cache_level == I915_CACHE_NONE ||
> -		 obj->cache_level == I915_CACHE_WT);
> -}
> -
>  void i915_vma_move_to_active(struct i915_vma *vma,
>  			     struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
>  			     unsigned int flags)
> @@ -1294,15 +1286,16 @@ void i915_vma_move_to_active(struct i915_vma *vma,
>  	i915_gem_active_set(&vma->last_read[idx], req);
>  	list_move_tail(&vma->vm_link, &vma->vm->active_list);
>  
> +	obj->base.write_domain = 0;
>  	if (flags & EXEC_OBJECT_WRITE) {
> +		obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_RENDER;
> +
>  		if (intel_fb_obj_invalidate(obj, ORIGIN_CS))
>  			i915_gem_active_set(&obj->frontbuffer_write, req);
>  
> -		/* update for the implicit flush after a batch */
> -		obj->base.write_domain &= ~I915_GEM_GPU_DOMAINS;
> -		if (!obj->cache_dirty && gpu_write_needs_clflush(obj))
> -			obj->cache_dirty = true;
> +		obj->base.read_domains = 0;
>  	}
> +	obj->base.read_domains |= I915_GEM_GPU_DOMAINS;
>  
>  	if (flags & EXEC_OBJECT_NEEDS_FENCE)
>  		i915_gem_active_set(&vma->last_fence, req);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_internal.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_internal.c
> index fc950abbe400..58e93e87d573 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_internal.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_internal.c
> @@ -188,9 +188,10 @@ i915_gem_object_create_internal(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
>  	drm_gem_private_object_init(&i915->drm, &obj->base, size);
>  	i915_gem_object_init(obj, &i915_gem_object_internal_ops);
>  
> -	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->cache_level = HAS_LLC(i915) ? I915_CACHE_LLC : I915_CACHE_NONE;
> +	obj->cache_dirty = !i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj);
>  
>  	return obj;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> index 58ccf8b8ca1c..9f84be171ad2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
> @@ -802,9 +802,10 @@ i915_gem_userptr_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, struct drm_file *file
>  
>  	drm_gem_private_object_init(dev, &obj->base, args->user_size);
>  	i915_gem_object_init(obj, &i915_gem_userptr_ops);
> -	obj->cache_level = I915_CACHE_LLC;
> -	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	obj->cache_level = I915_CACHE_LLC;
> +	obj->cache_dirty = !i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj);
>  
>  	obj->userptr.ptr = args->user_ptr;
>  	obj->userptr.read_only = !!(args->flags & I915_USERPTR_READ_ONLY);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/huge_gem_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/huge_gem_object.c
> index 4e681fc13be4..0ca867a877b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/huge_gem_object.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/huge_gem_object.c
> @@ -126,9 +126,10 @@ huge_gem_object(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
>  	drm_gem_private_object_init(&i915->drm, &obj->base, dma_size);
>  	i915_gem_object_init(obj, &huge_ops);
>  
> -	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->base.read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> +	obj->base.write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->cache_level = HAS_LLC(i915) ? I915_CACHE_LLC : I915_CACHE_NONE;
> +	obj->cache_dirty = !i915_gem_object_is_coherent(obj);
>  	obj->scratch = phys_size;
>  
>  	return obj;
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 


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