[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/5] DONOTMERGE: dma-buf: Get rid of dma_fence_get_rcu_safe

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Thu Jun 10 13:59:03 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 1:51 AM Christian König
<christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>
> Am 09.06.21 um 23:29 schrieb Jason Ekstrand:
> > This helper existed to handle the weird corner-cases caused by using
> > SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for backing dma_fence.  Now that no one is using
> > that anymore (i915 was the only real user), dma_fence_get_rcu is
> > sufficient.  The one slightly annoying thing we have to deal with here
> > is that dma_fence_get_rcu_safe did an rcu_dereference as well as a
> > SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU-safe dma_fence_get_rcu.  This means each call site
> > ends up being 3 lines instead of 1.
>
> That's an outright NAK.
>
> The loop in dma_fence_get_rcu_safe is necessary because the underlying
> fence object can be replaced while taking the reference.

Right.  I had missed a bit of that when I first read through it.  I
see the need for the loop now.  But there are some other tricky bits
in there besides just the loop.

> This is completely unrelated to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. See the
> dma_fence_chain usage for reference.
>
> What you can remove is the sequence number handling in dma-buf. That
> should make adding fences quite a bit quicker.

I'll look at that and try to understand what's going on there.

--Jason

> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> > Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c         |  8 ++--
> >   drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c                |  4 +-
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c |  4 +-
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h        |  4 +-
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c           |  4 +-
> >   include/drm/drm_syncobj.h                 |  4 +-
> >   include/linux/dma-fence.h                 | 50 -----------------------
> >   include/linux/dma-resv.h                  |  4 +-
> >   8 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> > index 7d129e68ac701..46dfc7d94d8ed 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> > @@ -15,15 +15,17 @@ static bool dma_fence_chain_enable_signaling(struct dma_fence *fence);
> >    * dma_fence_chain_get_prev - use RCU to get a reference to the previous fence
> >    * @chain: chain node to get the previous node from
> >    *
> > - * Use dma_fence_get_rcu_safe to get a reference to the previous fence of the
> > - * chain node.
> > + * Use rcu_dereference and dma_fence_get_rcu to get a reference to the
> > + * previous fence of the chain node.
> >    */
> >   static struct dma_fence *dma_fence_chain_get_prev(struct dma_fence_chain *chain)
> >   {
> >       struct dma_fence *prev;
> >
> >       rcu_read_lock();
> > -     prev = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&chain->prev);
> > +     prev = rcu_dereference(chain->prev);
> > +     if (prev)
> > +             prev = dma_fence_get_rcu(prev);
> >       rcu_read_unlock();
> >       return prev;
> >   }
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
> > index f26c71747d43a..cfe0db3cca292 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c
> > @@ -376,7 +376,9 @@ int dma_resv_copy_fences(struct dma_resv *dst, struct dma_resv *src)
> >               dst_list = NULL;
> >       }
> >
> > -     new = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&src->fence_excl);
> > +     new = rcu_dereference(src->fence_excl);
> > +     if (new)
> > +             new = dma_fence_get_rcu(new);
> >       rcu_read_unlock();
> >
> >       src_list = dma_resv_shared_list(dst);
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > index 72d9b92b17547..0aeb6117f3893 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c
> > @@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ int amdgpu_fence_emit(struct amdgpu_ring *ring, struct dma_fence **f,
> >               struct dma_fence *old;
> >
> >               rcu_read_lock();
> > -             old = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(ptr);
> > +             old = rcu_dereference(*ptr);
> > +             if (old)
> > +                     old = dma_fence_get_rcu(old);
> >               rcu_read_unlock();
> >
> >               if (old) {
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
> > index d0feda68b874f..bd89cfc806ca5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.h
> > @@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ i915_active_fence_get(struct i915_active_fence *active)
> >       struct dma_fence *fence;
> >
> >       rcu_read_lock();
> > -     fence = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&active->fence);
> > +     fence = rcu_dereference(active->fence);
> > +     if (fence)
> > +             fence = dma_fence_get_rcu(fence);
> >       rcu_read_unlock();
> >
> >       return fence;
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
> > index 0f227f28b2802..ed0388d99197e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.c
> > @@ -351,7 +351,9 @@ int i915_vma_wait_for_bind(struct i915_vma *vma)
> >               struct dma_fence *fence;
> >
> >               rcu_read_lock();
> > -             fence = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&vma->active.excl.fence);
> > +             fence = rcu_dereference(vma->active.excl.fence);
> > +             if (fence)
> > +                     fence = dma_fence_get_rcu(fence);
> >               rcu_read_unlock();
> >               if (fence) {
> >                       err = dma_fence_wait(fence, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_syncobj.h b/include/drm/drm_syncobj.h
> > index 6cf7243a1dc5e..6c45d52988bcc 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_syncobj.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_syncobj.h
> > @@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ drm_syncobj_fence_get(struct drm_syncobj *syncobj)
> >       struct dma_fence *fence;
> >
> >       rcu_read_lock();
> > -     fence = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&syncobj->fence);
> > +     fence = rcu_dereference(syncobj->fence);
> > +     if (fence)
> > +             fence = dma_fence_get_rcu(syncobj->fence);
> >       rcu_read_unlock();
> >
> >       return fence;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence.h b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
> > index 6ffb4b2c63715..f4a2ab2b1ae46 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/dma-fence.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
> > @@ -307,56 +307,6 @@ static inline struct dma_fence *dma_fence_get_rcu(struct dma_fence *fence)
> >               return NULL;
> >   }
> >
> > -/**
> > - * dma_fence_get_rcu_safe  - acquire a reference to an RCU tracked fence
> > - * @fencep: pointer to fence to increase refcount of
> > - *
> > - * Function returns NULL if no refcount could be obtained, or the fence.
> > - * This function handles acquiring a reference to a fence that may be
> > - * reallocated within the RCU grace period (such as with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU),
> > - * so long as the caller is using RCU on the pointer to the fence.
> > - *
> > - * An alternative mechanism is to employ a seqlock to protect a bunch of
> > - * fences, such as used by struct dma_resv. When using a seqlock,
> > - * the seqlock must be taken before and checked after a reference to the
> > - * fence is acquired (as shown here).
> > - *
> > - * The caller is required to hold the RCU read lock.
> > - */
> > -static inline struct dma_fence *
> > -dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(struct dma_fence __rcu **fencep)
> > -{
> > -     do {
> > -             struct dma_fence *fence;
> > -
> > -             fence = rcu_dereference(*fencep);
> > -             if (!fence)
> > -                     return NULL;
> > -
> > -             if (!dma_fence_get_rcu(fence))
> > -                     continue;
> > -
> > -             /* The atomic_inc_not_zero() inside dma_fence_get_rcu()
> > -              * provides a full memory barrier upon success (such as now).
> > -              * This is paired with the write barrier from assigning
> > -              * to the __rcu protected fence pointer so that if that
> > -              * pointer still matches the current fence, we know we
> > -              * have successfully acquire a reference to it. If it no
> > -              * longer matches, we are holding a reference to some other
> > -              * reallocated pointer. This is possible if the allocator
> > -              * is using a freelist like SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU where the
> > -              * fence remains valid for the RCU grace period, but it
> > -              * may be reallocated. When using such allocators, we are
> > -              * responsible for ensuring the reference we get is to
> > -              * the right fence, as below.
> > -              */
> > -             if (fence == rcu_access_pointer(*fencep))
> > -                     return rcu_pointer_handoff(fence);
> > -
> > -             dma_fence_put(fence);
> > -     } while (1);
> > -}
> > -
> >   #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> >   bool dma_fence_begin_signalling(void);
> >   void dma_fence_end_signalling(bool cookie);
> > diff --git a/include/linux/dma-resv.h b/include/linux/dma-resv.h
> > index 562b885cf9c3d..a38c021f379af 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/dma-resv.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dma-resv.h
> > @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ dma_resv_get_excl_unlocked(struct dma_resv *obj)
> >               return NULL;
> >
> >       rcu_read_lock();
> > -     fence = dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(&obj->fence_excl);
> > +     fence = rcu_dereference(obj->fence_excl);
> > +     if (fence)
> > +             fence = dma_fence_get_rcu(fence);
> >       rcu_read_unlock();
> >
> >       return fence;
>


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