[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/i915/gem: only allow WB for smem only placements

Matthew Auld matthew.auld at intel.com
Mon Jun 28 10:20:43 UTC 2021


On 28/06/2021 10:38, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 6/28/21 11:12 AM, Matthew Auld wrote:
>> On 28/06/2021 08:41, Thomas Hellström wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/25/21 2:27 PM, Matthew Auld wrote:
>>>> We only support single mode and this should be immutable. For smem only
>>>> placements on DGFX this should be WB. On DG1 everything is snooped,
>>>> always, and so should be coherent.
>>>>
>>>> I915_GEM_DOMAIN_GTT looks like it's for the aperture which is now gone
>>>> for DGFX, so hopefully can also be safely rejected.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c |  7 +++++++
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c   | 10 ++++++++++
>>>>   2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c 
>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>>>> index d0c91697bb22..e3459a524e64 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>>>> @@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ i915_gem_set_domain_ioctl(struct drm_device 
>>>> *dev, void *data,
>>>>           goto out_unpin;
>>>>       }
>>>> +    if (IS_DGFX(to_i915(obj->base.dev)) && obj->mm.n_placements == 
>>>> 1 &&
>>>> +        i915_gem_object_placements_contain_type(obj, 
>>>> INTEL_MEMORY_SYSTEM) &&
>>>> +        read_domains != I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) {
>>>> +        err = -EINVAL;
>>>> +        goto out_unpin;
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>>       if (read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_WC)
>>>>           err = i915_gem_object_set_to_wc_domain(obj, write_domain);
>>>>       else if (read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_GTT)
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c 
>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
>>>> index f3586b36dd53..afc9f3dc38b9 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
>>>> @@ -673,6 +673,7 @@ __assign_mmap_offset(struct drm_i915_gem_object 
>>>> *obj,
>>>>                enum i915_mmap_type mmap_type,
>>>>                u64 *offset, struct drm_file *file)
>>>>   {
>>>> +    struct drm_i915_private *i915 = to_i915(obj->base.dev);
>>>>       struct i915_mmap_offset *mmo;
>>>>       if (i915_gem_object_never_mmap(obj))
>>>> @@ -697,6 +698,15 @@ __assign_mmap_offset(struct drm_i915_gem_object 
>>>> *obj,
>>>>           i915_gem_object_placements_contain_type(obj, 
>>>> INTEL_MEMORY_LOCAL))
>>>>           return -ENODEV;
>>>> +    /*
>>>> +     * For smem only placements on DGFX we need to default to WB. 
>>>> On DG1
>>>> +     * everything is snooped always, so should always be coherent.
>>>> +     */
>>>> +     if (IS_DGFX(i915) &&
>>>> +         mmap_type != I915_MMAP_TYPE_WB && obj->mm.n_placements == 
>>>> 1 &&
>>>> +         i915_gem_object_placements_contain_type(obj, 
>>>> INTEL_MEMORY_SYSTEM))
>>>> +        return -ENODEV;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Same thing here as in the previous patch.
>>>
>>> Also do we need to modify i915_coherent_map_type() to also include 
>>> HAS_SNOOP()?
>>>
>>> While we're at it, that "always_coherent" argument to 
>>> i915_coherent_map_type() appears scary to me and probably needs some 
>>> documentation. It seems used for page-tables. Is it because we know 
>>> those are always snooped?
>>
>> Yeah, it's either because the caller has/will mark the pages as 
>> coherent(which translates to some special ppGTT bits), or we manually 
>> flush ourselves. In i915_coherent_map_type() we should account for DG1 
>> somehow.
>>
>> Historically I don't think we enabled snooping by default since it's 
>> considered slow compared to shared LLC. On DG1 this is a different 
>> story though.
>>
>> Also the pin_map() interface is pretty much only for kernel internal 
>> objects, so I don't think we have any users which try to map userspace 
>> objects with that interface. Ok, except for vm_access it seems, but 
>> that should hopefully be a simple fix to use the correct caching mode? 
>> We can maybe add some sanity checking there if someone tries to map a 
>> userspace object?
> I'm not fully sure that's sufficient, see below.
>>
>> For all the other callers of pin_map() which should all be kernel 
>> internal do we still need to force WB for system memory? By design we 
>> only support a single mm.mapping there. For lmem we already use WC only.
> 
> We're only allowed to map with the same caching mode as the linear 
> kernel mapping for discrete. Otherwise things may blow up on non-intel 
> architectures. We can probably update 195_ttm_select_tt_caching to 
> always use WB for system pages for kernel objects, but then we must make 
> sure we don't try to map these WC.

Ok, do you think that should be a separate series? It looks like our 
internal objects don't use ttm(?). Should it? If so should we make a 
region for it, or can we just make create_internal use the ttm system 
region? It should be pretty much the same, except we don't want 
swapping, clearing or eviction, and ideally we would have some way of 
marking the pages as volatile(I think we can just keep IS_SHRINKABLE for 
that).

Or can we keep create_internal as is and then it's just a case of 
dealing with all the pin_map() callers?

> 
> /Thomas
> 
> 
>>
>>>
>>> /Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>>       mmo = mmap_offset_attach(obj, mmap_type, file);
>>>>       if (IS_ERR(mmo))
>>>>           return PTR_ERR(mmo);


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