[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v4 10/15] drm/ttm, drm/amdgpu: Allow the driver some control over swapping

Thomas Hellström (Intel) thomas_os at shipmail.org
Thu May 27 07:33:43 UTC 2021


Hi, Christian,

Thanks for reviewing.

On 5/26/21 3:26 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 26.05.21 um 13:32 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
>> We are calling the eviction_valuable driver callback at eviction time to
>> determine whether we actually can evict a buffer object.
>> The upcoming i915 TTM backend needs the same functionality for swapout,
>> and that might actually be beneficial to other drivers as well.
>>
>> Add an eviction_valuable call also in the swapout path. Try to keep the
>> current behaviour for all drivers by returning true if the buffer object
>> is already in the TTM_PL_SYSTEM placement. We change behaviour for the
>> case where a buffer object is in a TT backed placement when swapped out,
>> in which case the drivers normal eviction_valuable path is run.
>>
>> Finally make sure we don't try to swapout a bo that was recently purged
>> and therefore unpopulated.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> v3:
>> - Don't export ttm_tt_unpopulate
>> - Fix confusion reading the locked pointer instead of the value
>>    pointed to in ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable (Reported by
>>    Maarten Lankhorst)
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c |  4 +++
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c            | 43 ++++++++++++++++---------
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c            |  3 ++
>>   3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
>> index 3bc3aebfef7c..45d194bffc3f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
>> @@ -1348,6 +1348,10 @@ static bool 
>> amdgpu_ttm_bo_eviction_valuable(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>       struct dma_fence *f;
>>       int i;
>>   +    /* Swapout? */
>> +    if (bo->mem.mem_type == TTM_PL_SYSTEM)
>> +        return true;
>> +
>>       if (bo->type == ttm_bo_type_kernel &&
>>           !amdgpu_vm_evictable(ttm_to_amdgpu_bo(bo)))
>>           return false;
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
>> index be0406466460..1b2d062266ed 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
>> @@ -536,6 +536,10 @@ static int ttm_bo_evict(struct ttm_buffer_object 
>> *bo,
>>   bool ttm_bo_eviction_valuable(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>                     const struct ttm_place *place)
>>   {
>> +    dma_resv_assert_held(bo->base.resv);
>> +    if (bo->mem.mem_type == TTM_PL_SYSTEM)
>> +        return true;
>> +
>>       /* Don't evict this BO if it's outside of the
>>        * requested placement range
>>        */
>> @@ -558,7 +562,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_bo_eviction_valuable);
>>    * b. Otherwise, trylock it.
>>    */
>>   static bool ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(struct ttm_buffer_object 
>> *bo,
>> -            struct ttm_operation_ctx *ctx, bool *locked, bool *busy)
>> +                       struct ttm_operation_ctx *ctx,
>> +                       const struct ttm_place *place,
>> +                       bool *locked, bool *busy)
>>   {
>>       bool ret = false;
>>   @@ -576,6 +582,14 @@ static bool 
>> ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
>>               *busy = !ret;
>>       }
>>   +    if (ret && place && !bo->bdev->funcs->eviction_valuable(bo, 
>> place)) {
>> +        ret = false;
>> +        if (*locked) {
>> +            dma_resv_unlock(bo->base.resv);
>> +            *locked = false;
>> +        }
>> +    }
>> +
>>       return ret;
>>   }
>>   @@ -630,20 +644,14 @@ int ttm_mem_evict_first(struct ttm_device *bdev,
>>           list_for_each_entry(bo, &man->lru[i], lru) {
>>               bool busy;
>>   -            if (!ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(bo, ctx, &locked,
>> -                                &busy)) {
>> +            if (!ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(bo, ctx, place,
>> +                                &locked, &busy)) {
>>                   if (busy && !busy_bo && ticket !=
>>                       dma_resv_locking_ctx(bo->base.resv))
>>                       busy_bo = bo;
>>                   continue;
>>               }
>>   -            if (place && !bdev->funcs->eviction_valuable(bo,
>> -                                      place)) {
>> -                if (locked)
>> -                    dma_resv_unlock(bo->base.resv);
>> -                continue;
>> -            }
>>               if (!ttm_bo_get_unless_zero(bo)) {
>>                   if (locked)
>>                       dma_resv_unlock(bo->base.resv);
>> @@ -1140,10 +1148,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_bo_wait);
>>   int ttm_bo_swapout(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct 
>> ttm_operation_ctx *ctx,
>>              gfp_t gfp_flags)
>>   {
>> +    struct ttm_place place = {};
>>       bool locked;
>>       int ret;
>>   -    if (!ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(bo, ctx, &locked, NULL))
>> +    /*
>> +     * While the bo may already reside in SYSTEM placement, set
>> +     * SYSTEM as new placement to cover also the move further below.
>> +     * The driver may use the fact that we're moving from SYSTEM
>> +     * as an indication that we're about to swap out.
>> +     */
>> +    place.mem_type = TTM_PL_SYSTEM;
>> +    if (!ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable(bo, ctx, &place, &locked, 
>> NULL))
>>           return -EBUSY;
>>         if (!ttm_bo_get_unless_zero(bo)) {
>> @@ -1168,12 +1184,7 @@ int ttm_bo_swapout(struct ttm_buffer_object 
>> *bo, struct ttm_operation_ctx *ctx,
>>       if (bo->mem.mem_type != TTM_PL_SYSTEM) {
>>           struct ttm_operation_ctx ctx = { false, false };
>>           struct ttm_resource evict_mem;
>> -        struct ttm_place place, hop;
>> -
>> -        memset(&place, 0, sizeof(place));
>> -        memset(&hop, 0, sizeof(hop));
>> -
>> -        place.mem_type = TTM_PL_SYSTEM;
>> +        struct ttm_place hop = {};
>
> I would stick with memset because of the padding reasons.
>
>>             ret = ttm_resource_alloc(bo, &place, &evict_mem);
>>           if (unlikely(ret))
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>> index 913b330a234b..d9793cbb6d13 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c
>> @@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ int ttm_tt_swapout(struct ttm_device *bdev, 
>> struct ttm_tt *ttm,
>>       struct page *to_page;
>>       int i, ret;
>>   +    if (!ttm_tt_is_populated(ttm))
>> +        return 0;
>> +
>
> This here is just because of a bug in the higher level function.
>
> I've just pushed the fix for that to drm-misc-fixes, so maybe drop 
> that here as soon as this is backmerged.
>
That code doesn't look correct to me. In ttm_device_swapout only the lru 
lock is held, and the bo->ttm pointer is protected by the resv lock, 
meaning that bo->ttm can disappear at any time in that function, so 
while an advisory reading bo->ttm using READ_ONCE() is ok, dereferencing 
the bo->ttm pointer without reservation held is illegal and may send you 
into recently freed memory.

For an example, consider

thread A. Selects bo for eviction, moves to system lru, creates ttm
Thread B locks lru in swapout code. finds bo->ttm NON_NULL,
thread A tries to evict bo, fails, destroys the ttm.
Thread B derefs freed memory.

But even relying on that there were no such example in the ttm core 
itself, not adhering to the protection of bo->ttm makes the code 
extremely fragile and IMHO needs fixing.

Also as a secondary note, a driver is in principle free to do things in 
the swap notifier that may result in an unpopulated ttm so IMHO a late 
check is needed here.

So ack to keep the above?

Thanks,

Thomas


>
> Christian.
>
>
>>       swap_storage = shmem_file_setup("ttm swap", size, 0);
>>       if (IS_ERR(swap_storage)) {
>>           pr_err("Failed allocating swap storage\n");


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