[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Lock signaler timeline while navigating

[Chris Wilson]

As we need to take a walk back along the signaler timeline to find the
fence before upon which we want to wait, we need to lock that timeline
to prevent it being modified as we walk. Similarly, we also need to
acquire a reference to the earlier fence while it still exists!

Though we lack the correct locking today, we are saved by the
overarching struct_mutex -- but that protection is being removed.

v2: Tvrtko made me realise I was being lax and using annotations to
ignore the AB-BA deadlock from the timeline overlap. As it would be
possible to construct a second request that was using a semaphore from the
same timeline as ourselves, we could quite easily end up in a situation
where we deadlocked in our mutex waits. Avoid that by using a trylock
and falling back to a normal dma-fence await if contended.

v3: Eek, the signal->timeline is volatile and must be carefully
dereferenced to ensure it is valid.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com> #v2
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index fb6f21c41934..9bd8538b1907 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -768,17 +768,43 @@ i915_request_create(struct intel_context *ce)
 static int
 i915_request_await_start(struct i915_request *rq, struct i915_request *signal)
 {
-	if (list_is_first(&signal->link, &signal->timeline->requests))
-		return 0;
+	struct intel_timeline *tl;
+	struct dma_fence *fence;
+	int err;
+
+	GEM_BUG_ON(i915_request_timeline(rq) ==
+		   rcu_access_pointer(signal->timeline));
 
-	signal = list_prev_entry(signal, link);
-	if (intel_timeline_sync_is_later(i915_request_timeline(rq),
-					 &signal->fence))
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	tl = rcu_dereference(signal->timeline);
+	if (i915_request_started(signal) || !kref_get_unless_zero(&tl->kref))
+		tl = NULL;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	if (!tl) /* already started or maybe even completed */
 		return 0;
 
-	return i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&rq->submit,
-					     &signal->fence, 0,
-					     I915_FENCE_GFP);
+	fence = ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+	if (mutex_trylock(&tl->mutex)) {
+		fence = NULL;
+		if (!i915_request_started(signal) &&
+		    !list_is_first(&signal->link, &tl->requests)) {
+			signal = list_prev_entry(signal, link);
+			fence = dma_fence_get(&signal->fence);
+		}
+		mutex_unlock(&tl->mutex);
+	}
+	intel_timeline_put(tl);
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(fence))
+		return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(fence);
+
+	err = 0;
+	if (intel_timeline_sync_is_later(i915_request_timeline(rq), fence))
+		err = i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&rq->submit,
+						    fence, 0,
+						    I915_FENCE_GFP);
+	dma_fence_put(fence);
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 static intel_engine_mask_t
@@ -808,30 +834,23 @@ emit_semaphore_wait(struct i915_request *to,
 	u32 hwsp_offset;
 	int len;
 	u32 *cs;
-	int err;
 
-	GEM_BUG_ON(!from->timeline->has_initial_breadcrumb);
 	GEM_BUG_ON(INTEL_GEN(to->i915) < 8);
 
 	/* Just emit the first semaphore we see as request space is limited. */
 	if (already_busywaiting(to) & from->engine->mask)
-		return i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&to->submit,
-						     &from->fence, 0,
-						     I915_FENCE_GFP);
+		goto await_fence;
 
-	err = i915_request_await_start(to, from);
-	if (err < 0)
-		return err;
+	if (i915_request_await_start(to, from) < 0)
+		goto await_fence;
 
 	/* Only submit our spinner after the signaler is running! */
-	err = __i915_request_await_execution(to, from, NULL, gfp);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
+	if (__i915_request_await_execution(to, from, NULL, gfp))
+		goto await_fence;
 
 	/* We need to pin the signaler's HWSP until we are finished reading. */
-	err = intel_timeline_read_hwsp(from, to, &hwsp_offset);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
+	if (intel_timeline_read_hwsp(from, to, &hwsp_offset))
+		goto await_fence;
 
 	len = 4;
 	if (has_token)
@@ -866,6 +885,11 @@ emit_semaphore_wait(struct i915_request *to,
 	to->sched.semaphores |= from->engine->mask;
 	to->sched.flags |= I915_SCHED_HAS_SEMAPHORE_CHAIN;
 	return 0;
+
+await_fence:
+	return i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&to->submit,
+					     &from->fence, 0,
+					     I915_FENCE_GFP);
 }
 
 static int
-- 
2.23.0