[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v5 4/5] drm: Add library for shmem backed GEM objects

[Eric Anholt]

Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org> writes:

> Den 28.01.2019 21.57, skrev Rob Herring:
>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 9:59 AM Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Den 30.11.2018 00.58, skrev Eric Anholt:
>>>> Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 01:52:56PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:38:44PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
>>>>>>>> Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:36:21PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org> writes:
>>>>>>>>>>> +static void drm_gem_shmem_vm_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>>>>>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>>>>>> +      struct drm_gem_object *obj = vma->vm_private_data;
>>>>>>>>>>> +      struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>> +      drm_gem_shmem_put_pages(shmem);
>>>>>>>>>>> +      drm_gem_vm_close(vma);
>>>>>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>> +const struct vm_operations_struct drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops = {
>>>>>>>>>>> +      .fault = drm_gem_shmem_fault,
>>>>>>>>>>> +      .open = drm_gem_vm_open,
>>>>>>>>>>> +      .close = drm_gem_shmem_vm_close,
>>>>>>>>>>> +};
>>>>>>>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops);
>>>>>>>>>> I just saw a warning from drm_gem_shmem_put_pages() for
>>>>>>>>>> !shmem->pages_use_count -- I think drm_gem_vm_open() needs to
>>>>>>>>>> drm_gem_shmem_get_pages().
>>>>>>>>> Yeah we need a drm_gem_shmem_vm_open here.
>>>>>>>> Adding one of those fixed my refcounting issues, so I've sent out a v6
>>>>>>>> with it.
>>>>>>> Just realized that I've reviewed this patch already, spotted that vma
>>>>>>> management issue there too. Plus a pile of other things. From reading that
>>>>>>> other thread discussion with Noralf concluded with "not yet ready for
>>>>>>> prime time" unfortunately :-/
>>>>>> I saw stuff about how it wasn't usable for SPI because SPI does weird
>>>>>> things with DMA mapping.  Was there something else?
>>>>> Looking through that mail it was a bunch of comments to improve the
>>>>> kerneldoc. Plus a note that buffer sharing/mmap is going to be all
>>>>> incoherent and horrible (but I guess for vkms we don't care that much).
>>>>> I'm just kinda vary of generic buffer handling that turns out to not be
>>>>> actually all that useful. We have lots of deadends and kinda-midlayers in
>>>>> this area already (but this one here definitely smells plenty better than
>>>>> lots of older ones).
>>>> FWIW, I really want shmem helpers for v3d.  The fault handling in
>>>> particular has magic I don't understand, and this is not my first fault
>>>> handler. :/
>>>
>>>
>>> If you can use it for a "real" hw driver like v3d, I think it makes a lot
>>> sense to have it as a helper. I believe udl and a future simpledrm can
>>> also make use of it.
>> 
>> FWIW, I think etnaviv at least could use this too.
>> 
>> I'm starting to look at panfrost and lima drivers and was trying to
>> figure out where to start with the GEM code. So I've been comparing
>> etnaviv, freedreno, and vgem implementations. They are all pretty
>> similar from what I see. The per driver GEM obj structs certainly are.
>> I can't bring myself to just copy etnaviv code over and do a
>> s/etnaviv/panfrost/. So searching around a bit, I ended up on this
>> thread. This seems to be what I need for panfrost (based on my brief
>> study).
>> 
>
> I gave up on this due to problems with SPI DMA.
> Eric tried to use it with vkms, but it failed. On his blog he speculates
> that it might be due to cached CPU mappings:
> https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/2018/12/03/twiv/
>
> For tinydrm I wanted cached mappings, but it might not work that well
> with shmem. Maybe that's why I had problems with SPI DMA.

Actually, for tinydrm buffers that are dma-buf exported through prime, I
really want tinydrm using WC mappings so that vc4 or v3d rendering (now
supported on Mesa master with kmsro) works.
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