[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: audit bo->resource usage

[Matthew Auld]

On 31/08/2022 15:53, Matthew Auld wrote:
> On 31/08/2022 14:34, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 31.08.22 um 14:50 schrieb Matthew Auld:
>>> On 31/08/2022 13:35, Christian König wrote:
>>>> Am 31.08.22 um 14:06 schrieb Matthew Auld:
>>>>> On 31/08/2022 12:03, Christian König wrote:
>>>>>> Am 31.08.22 um 12:37 schrieb Matthew Auld:
>>>>>>> [SNIP]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That hopefully just leaves i915_ttm_shrink(), which is swapping 
>>>>>>>>> out shmem ttm_tt and is calling ttm_bo_validate() with empty 
>>>>>>>>> placements to force the pipeline-gutting path, which 
>>>>>>>>> importantly unpopulates the ttm_tt for us (since 
>>>>>>>>> ttm_tt_unpopulate is not exported it seems). But AFAICT it 
>>>>>>>>> looks like that will now also nuke the bo->resource, instead of 
>>>>>>>>> just leaving it in system memory. My assumption is that when 
>>>>>>>>> later calling ttm_bo_validate(), it will just do the 
>>>>>>>>> bo_move_null() in i915_ttm_move(), instead of re-populating the 
>>>>>>>>> ttm_tt and then potentially copying it back to local-memory?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well you do ttm_bo_validate() with something like GTT domain, 
>>>>>>>> don't you? This should result in re-populating the tt object, 
>>>>>>>> but I'm not 100% sure if that really works as expected.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AFAIK for domains we either have system memory (which uses ttm_tt 
>>>>>>> and might be shmem underneath) or local-memory. But perhaps i915 
>>>>>>> is doing something wrong here, or abusing TTM in some way. I'm 
>>>>>>> not sure tbh.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, I think we have two cases here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - We have some system memory only object. After doing 
>>>>>>> i915_ttm_shrink(), bo->resource is now NULL. We then call 
>>>>>>> ttm_bo_validate() at some later point, but here we don't need to 
>>>>>>> copy anything, but it also looks like ttm_bo_handle_move_mem() 
>>>>>>> won't populate the ttm_tt or us either, since mem_type == 
>>>>>>> TTM_PL_SYSTEM. It looks like i915_ttm_move() was taking care of 
>>>>>>> this, but now we just call ttm_bo_move_null().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - We have a local-memory only object, which was evicted to shmem, 
>>>>>>> and then swapped out by the shrinker like above. The bo->resource 
>>>>>>> is NULL. However this time when calling ttm_bo_validate() we need 
>>>>>>> to actually do a copy in i915_ttm_move(), as well as re-populate 
>>>>>>> the ttm_tt. i915_ttm_move() was taking care of this, but now we 
>>>>>>> just call ttm_bo_move_null().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Perhaps i915 is doing something wrong in the above two cases?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mhm, as far as I can see that should still work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See previously you should got a transition from SYSTEM->GTT in 
>>>>>> i915_ttm_move() to re-create your backing store. Not you get 
>>>>>> NULL->SYSTEM which is handled by ttm_bo_move_null() and then 
>>>>>> SYSTEM->GTT.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is GTT here in TTM world? Also I'm not seeing where there is 
>>>>> this SYSTEM->GTT transition? Maybe I'm blind. Just to be clear, 
>>>>> i915 is only calling ttm_bo_validate() once when acquiring the 
>>>>> pages, and we don't call it again, unless it was evicted (and 
>>>>> potentially swapped out).
>>>>
>>>> Well GTT means TTM_PL_TT.
>>>>
>>>> And calling it only once is perfectly fine, TTM will internally see 
>>>> that we need two hops to reach TTM_PL_TT and so does the 
>>>> NULL->SYSTEM transition and then SYSTEM->TT.
>>>
>>> Ah interesting, so that's what the multi-hop thing does. But AFAICT 
>>> i915 is not using either TTM_PL_TT or -EMULTIHOP.
>>
>> Mhm, it could be that we then have a problem and the i915 driver only 
>> sees NULL->TT directly. But I really don't know the i915 driver code 
>> good enough to judge that.
>>
>> Can you take a look at this and test it maybe?
> 
> I'll grab a machine and try to see what is going on here.

Well at least the issue with the firmware not loading looks to be fixed now.

So running some eviction + oom tests it looks it now does:

/* eviction kicks in */
i915_ttm_move(bo):  LMEM -> PL_SYSTEM

/* shrinker/oom kicks in at some point */
i915_ttm_shrink(bo):
     bo->resource = NULL, /* pipeline_gutting */
     shmem ttm_tt is unpopulated and pages are correctly swapped out

/* user touches the same object later */
i915_ttm_move(bo):  NULL -> LMEM, bo_move_null()

So seems to incorrectly skip swapping it back in and then copy over to 
lmem. It just allocates directly in lmem.

And previously the last two steps would have been:

i915_ttm_shrink(bo):
     bo->resource = PL_SYSTEM, /* pipeline_gutting */
     shmem ttm_tt is unpopulated and pages are correctly swapped out

i915_ttm_move(bo):
     PL_SYSTEM -> LMEM,
     ttm_tt is repopulated and pages are copied over to lmem

> 
>>
>>>
>>> Also what is the difference between TTM_PL_TT and TM_PL_SYSTEM? When 
>>> should you use one over the other?
>>
>> TTM_PL_SYSTEM means the device is not accessing the buffer and TTM has 
>> the control over the backing store and can swapout/swapin as it wants it.
>>
>> TTM_PL_TT means that the device is accessing the data (TT stands for 
>> translation table) and so TTM can't swap the backing store in/out.
>>
>> TTM_PL_VRAM well that one is obvious.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. So it looks like i915 is using TTM_PL_SYSTEM 
> even for device access it seems.
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can see that should work like it did before.
>>>>
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you just validated to SYSTEM memory before I think the tt 
>>>>>> object wouldn't have been populated either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've been considering to replacing the ttm_bo_type with a 
>>>>>>>>>> bunch of behavior flags for a bo. I'm hoping that this will 
>>>>>>>>>> clean things up a bit.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>> Christian.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>       caching = i915_ttm_select_tt_caching(obj);
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 9a7e50534b84bb..c420d1ab605b6f 100644
>>>>>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
>>>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ int i915_ttm_move(struct 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ttm_buffer_object *bo, bool evict,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>       bool clear;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>       int ret;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -    if (GEM_WARN_ON(!obj)) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +    if (GEM_WARN_ON(!obj) || !bo->resource) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>>           ttm_bo_move_null(bo, dst_mem);
>>>>>>>>>>>>>           return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>       }
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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