[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use rcu instead of stop_machine

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Thu Oct 5 14:09:48 UTC 2017


stop_machine is not really a locking primitive we should use, except
when the hw folks tell us the hw is broken and that's the only way to
work around it.

This patch here is just a suggestion for how to fix it up, possible
changes needed to make it actually work:

- Set the nop_submit_request first for _all_ engines, before
  proceeding.

- Make sure engine->cancel_requests copes with the possibility that
  not all tests have consistently used the new or old version. I dont
  think this is a problem, since the same can happen really with the
  stop_machine() locking - stop_machine also doesn't give you any kind
  of global ordering against other cpu threads, it just makes them
  stop.

This patch tries to address the locking snafu from

commit 20e4933c478a1ca694b38fa4ac44d99e659941f5
Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 22 14:41:21 2016 +0000

    drm/i915: Stop the machine as we install the wedged submit_request handler

Chris said parts of the reasons for going with stop_machine() was that
it's no overhead for the fast-path. But these callbacks use irqsave
spinlocks and do a bunch of MMIO, and rcu_read_lock is _real_ fast.

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c                   | 18 +++++-------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c           |  2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_request.c |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index ab8c6946fea4..0b260e576b4b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3022,13 +3022,13 @@ static void nop_submit_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request)
 
 static void engine_set_wedged(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
+	engine->submit_request = nop_submit_request;
+
 	/* We need to be sure that no thread is running the old callback as
 	 * we install the nop handler (otherwise we would submit a request
-	 * to hardware that will never complete). In order to prevent this
-	 * race, we wait until the machine is idle before making the swap
-	 * (using stop_machine()).
+	 * to hardware that will never complete).
 	 */
-	engine->submit_request = nop_submit_request;
+	synchronize_rcu();
 
 	/* Mark all executing requests as skipped */
 	engine->cancel_requests(engine);
@@ -3041,9 +3041,8 @@ static void engine_set_wedged(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 				       intel_engine_last_submit(engine));
 }
 
-static int __i915_gem_set_wedged_BKL(void *data)
+void i915_gem_set_wedged(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 {
-	struct drm_i915_private *i915 = data;
 	struct intel_engine_cs *engine;
 	enum intel_engine_id id;
 
@@ -3052,13 +3051,6 @@ static int __i915_gem_set_wedged_BKL(void *data)
 
 	set_bit(I915_WEDGED, &i915->gpu_error.flags);
 	wake_up_all(&i915->gpu_error.reset_queue);
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-void i915_gem_set_wedged(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
-{
-	stop_machine(__i915_gem_set_wedged_BKL, dev_priv, NULL);
 }
 
 bool i915_gem_unset_wedged(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
index b100b38f1dd2..ef78a85cb845 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
@@ -556,7 +556,9 @@ submit_notify(struct i915_sw_fence *fence, enum i915_sw_fence_notify state)
 	switch (state) {
 	case FENCE_COMPLETE:
 		trace_i915_gem_request_submit(request);
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		request->engine->submit_request(request);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		break;
 
 	case FENCE_FREE:
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_request.c
index 78b9f811707f..a999161e8db1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_request.c
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ static int igt_request_rewind(void *arg)
 	}
 	i915_gem_request_get(vip);
 	i915_add_request(vip);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	request->engine->submit_request(request);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	mutex_unlock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
 
-- 
2.14.1



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