[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 2/2] drm/i915/ttm: Failsafe migration blits

[Thomas Hellström]

On 11/2/21 18:40, Matthew Auld wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 16:39, Thomas Hellström
> <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> If the initial fill blit or copy blit of an object fails, the old
>> content of the data might be exposed and read as soon as either CPU- or
>> GPU PTEs are set up to point at the pages.
>>
>> Intercept the blit fence with an async callback that checks the
>> blit fence for errors and if there are errors performs an async cpu blit
>> instead. If there is a failure to allocate the async dma_fence_work,
>> allocate it on the stack and sync wait for the blit to complete.
>>
>> Add selftests that simulate gpu blit failures and failure to allocate
>> the async dma_fence_work.
>>
>> A previous version of this pach used dma_fence_work, now that's
>> opencoded which adds more code but might lower the latency
>> somewhat in the common non-error case.
>>
>> v3:
>> - Style fixes (Matthew Auld)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c  | 322 +++++++++++++++---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.h  |   5 +
>>   .../drm/i915/gem/selftests/i915_gem_migrate.c |  24 +-
>>   3 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
>> index 0ed6b7f2b95f..b89672c547f8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
>> @@ -18,6 +18,29 @@
>>   #include "gt/intel_gt.h"
>>   #include "gt/intel_migrate.h"
>>
>> +/**
>> + * DOC: Selftest failure modes for failsafe migration:
>> + *
>> + * For fail_gpu_migration, the gpu blit scheduled is always a clear blit
>> + * rather than a copy blit, and then we force the failure paths as if
>> + * the blit fence returned an error.
>> + *
>> + * For fail_work_allocation we fail the kmalloc of the async worker, we
>> + * sync the gpu blit. If it then fails, or fail_gpu_migration is set to
>> + * true, then a memcpy operation is performed sync.
>> + */
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DRM_I915_SELFTEST
> When pushing maybe make this:
>
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_I915_SELFTEST)
>
> Which seems to be consistent with most of the other places.

Hmm,

I noticed that i915 is doing that, although I thought these macros were 
primarily intended for C expressions?

/Thomas


>
>> +static bool fail_gpu_migration;
>> +static bool fail_work_allocation;
>> +
>> +void i915_ttm_migrate_set_failure_modes(bool gpu_migration,
>> +                                       bool work_allocation)
>> +{
>> +       fail_gpu_migration = gpu_migration;
>> +       fail_work_allocation = work_allocation;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +