[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/userptr: Track gup locked track

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Nov 8 20:14:15 UTC 2019


Enable gup to retry and fault the pages outside of the mmap_sem lock in
our worker. As we are inside our worker, outside of any critical path,
we can allow the mmap_sem lock to be dropped in order to service a page
fault; this in turn allows the mm to populate the page using a slow
fault handler.

Testcase: igt/gem_userptr/userfault
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c
index ee65c6acf0e2..5e87126def2f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_userptr.c
@@ -459,26 +459,31 @@ __i915_gem_userptr_get_pages_worker(struct work_struct *_work)
 	if (pvec != NULL) {
 		struct mm_struct *mm = obj->userptr.mm->mm;
 		unsigned int flags = 0;
+		int locked = 0;
 
 		if (!i915_gem_object_is_readonly(obj))
 			flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 		ret = -EFAULT;
 		if (mmget_not_zero(mm)) {
-			down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 			while (pinned < npages) {
+				if (!locked) {
+					down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+					locked = 1;
+				}
 				ret = get_user_pages_remote
 					(work->task, mm,
 					 obj->userptr.ptr + pinned * PAGE_SIZE,
 					 npages - pinned,
 					 flags,
-					 pvec + pinned, NULL, NULL);
+					 pvec + pinned, NULL, &locked);
 				if (ret < 0)
 					break;
 
 				pinned += ret;
 			}
-			up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+			if (locked)
+				up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 			mmput(mm);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.24.0



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