[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t 2/4] gem_create: Test huge object creation as a basic test

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 31/03/2017 12:16, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:07:29PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>>
>> On 31/03/2017 11:48, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:08:28AM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 30/03/2017 18:22, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:58:07PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>>>>>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is hard to imagine a more basic test than this one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also removed the skip on simulation since I don't know why
>>>>>> would that be needed here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> tests/gem_create.c | 10 ++++++----
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/tests/gem_create.c b/tests/gem_create.c
>>>>>> index de7b82094545..f687b7b40be4 100644
>>>>>> --- a/tests/gem_create.c
>>>>>> +++ b/tests/gem_create.c
>>>>>> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>>>>>> #include <sys/stat.h>
>>>>>> #include <sys/time.h>
>>>>>> #include <getopt.h>
>>>>>> +#include <limits.h>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> #include <drm.h>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @@ -95,10 +96,13 @@ static void invalid_flag_test(int fd)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> static void invalid_size_test(int fd)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> -	int handle;
>>>>>> +	uint32_t handle;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	handle = __gem_create(fd, 0);
>>>>>> 	igt_assert(!handle);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +	handle = __gem_create(fd, INT_MAX * 4096UL + 1);
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is that an invalid size? Invalid huge in terms of API might arguably
>>>>> be 1<<virtual_bits + 1, but otherwise our only limitation is that it
>>>>> has to be >0 and page aligned.
>>>>
>>>> Because of the comment above the WARN I am removing in "drm/i915:
>>>> Remove user triggerable WARN from i915_gem_object_create". We cannot
>>>> support larger ones with the combination of sg_table data types and
>>>> how we use them (unsigned int nents).
>>>
>>> That's an implementation limitation, not an abi one. It is really
>>> important that we do not enshrine kernel internals as expectations,
>>> especially not as a basic test - the expectation is that we will support
>>> massive objects. Having a reality check test to see how far we can get
>>> is useful.
>>
>> We added code to the driver to prevent userspace from attempting
>> something. It makes sense to have a test for that, so that one day
>> if it gets removed in error the test fails, rather than memory
>> corruption in the kernel happens.
>
> We added code to detect if we would overflow the internal types. We
> don't want that to be an artificial ABI restriction.
>
>> We can talk about basic or not basic, but I don't see how the
>> existence of such test can be argued against in principle.
>
> My argument is that userspace should be expecting it to succeed and the
> test should fail on current kernels because we are not able to live up
> to those expectations. It's enshrining the failure as part of the ABI
> that I am wary of.

IGT tests many things apart from the ABI so I wouldn't be worried about 
that so much. Basic keyword is not the same as ABI to me.

Failing test has a problem that it is not very useful since it doesn't 
get run anywhere. Or we could start tagging tests with a test driven 
development tag. Those would then represent tests for features which we 
won't but don't have, or are simply broken.

Still the two are not mutually exclusive. We could have a test with 
knowledge of implementation details to ensure no memory 
corruptions/exploits. And we could have a tdd test like I described 
above. Former would pass today and the latter would fail.

Compromise as having the succeeding test as not basic?

Regards,

Tvrtko