[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 20/26] drm/i915: Forgo last_fence active request tracking

[Chris Wilson]

We were using the last_fence to track the last request that used this
vma that might be interpreted by a fence register and forced ourselves
to wait for this request before modifying any fence register that
overlapped our vma. Due to requirement that we need to track any XY_BLT
command, linear or tiled, this in effect meant that we have to track the
vma for its active lifespan anyway, so we can forgo the explicit
last_fence tracking and just use the whole vma->active.

Another solution would be to pipeline the register updates, and would
help resolve some long running stalls for gen3 (but only gen 2 and 3!)

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c       |  4 +---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence_reg.c |  6 ++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c       |  1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c           | 13 -------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h           |  1 -
 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
index eeecdad0e3ca..2c8580f375fb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
@@ -210,9 +210,7 @@ describe_obj(struct seq_file *m, struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
 			}
 		}
 		if (vma->fence)
-			seq_printf(m, " , fence: %d%s",
-				   vma->fence->id,
-				   i915_active_request_isset(&vma->last_fence) ? "*" : "");
+			seq_printf(m, " , fence: %d", vma->fence->id);
 		seq_puts(m, ")");
 
 		spin_lock(&obj->vma.lock);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence_reg.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence_reg.c
index 0bf53ac1c835..754eceaf0b23 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence_reg.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_fence_reg.c
@@ -230,16 +230,14 @@ static int fence_update(struct i915_fence_reg *fence,
 			 i915_gem_object_get_tiling(vma->obj)))
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		ret = i915_active_request_retire(&vma->last_fence,
-					     &vma->obj->base.dev->struct_mutex);
+		ret = i915_active_wait(&vma->active);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	}
 
 	old = xchg(&fence->vma, NULL);
 	if (old) {
-		ret = i915_active_request_retire(&old->last_fence,
-					     &old->obj->base.dev->struct_mutex);
+		ret = i915_active_wait(&old->active);
 		if (ret) {
 			fence->vma = old;
 			return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
index ee22c34d071a..8c58e6f0a2b4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -2050,7 +2050,6 @@ static struct i915_vma *pd_vma_create(struct gen6_ppgtt *ppgtt, int size)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	i915_active_init(i915, &vma->active, NULL, NULL);
-	INIT_ACTIVE_REQUEST(&vma->last_fence);
 
 	vma->vm = &ggtt->vm;
 	vma->ops = &pd_vma_ops;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
index f694bfa54e0d..b888ddab3c8b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ vma_create(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
 
 	i915_active_init(vm->i915, &vma->active,
 			 __i915_vma_active, __i915_vma_retire);
-	INIT_ACTIVE_REQUEST(&vma->last_fence);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->closed_link);
 
@@ -793,8 +792,6 @@ static void __i915_vma_destroy(struct i915_vma *vma)
 	GEM_BUG_ON(vma->node.allocated);
 	GEM_BUG_ON(vma->fence);
 
-	GEM_BUG_ON(i915_active_request_isset(&vma->last_fence));
-
 	mutex_lock(&vma->vm->mutex);
 	list_del(&vma->vm_link);
 	mutex_unlock(&vma->vm->mutex);
@@ -930,9 +927,6 @@ int i915_vma_move_to_active(struct i915_vma *vma,
 	obj->read_domains |= I915_GEM_GPU_DOMAINS;
 	obj->mm.dirty = true;
 
-	if (flags & EXEC_OBJECT_NEEDS_FENCE)
-		__i915_active_request_set(&vma->last_fence, rq);
-
 	export_fence(vma, rq, flags);
 
 	GEM_BUG_ON(!i915_vma_is_active(vma));
@@ -965,14 +959,7 @@ int i915_vma_unbind(struct i915_vma *vma)
 		 * before we are finished).
 		 */
 		__i915_vma_pin(vma);
-
 		ret = i915_active_wait(&vma->active);
-		if (ret)
-			goto unpin;
-
-		ret = i915_active_request_retire(&vma->last_fence,
-					      &vma->vm->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
-unpin:
 		__i915_vma_unpin(vma);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
index 4b769db649bf..17e6a038bd36 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ struct i915_vma {
 #define I915_VMA_GGTT_WRITE	BIT(14)
 
 	struct i915_active active;
-	struct i915_active_request last_fence;
 
 	/**
 	 * Support different GGTT views into the same object.
-- 
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