[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 4/9] PCI/VGA: Improve the default VGA device selection

suijingfeng suijingfeng at loongson.cn
Mon Jul 17 14:07:37 UTC 2023


Hi,


Fixes: f6b1772b2555 ('vgaarb: remove the unused irq_set_state argument 
to vga_client_register')


Because after applied that patch, there have only one callback mechanism 
we can use, not two anymore.


On 2023/7/12 00:43, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> From: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng at loongson.cn>
>
> Currently, the strategy of selecting the default boot on a multiple video
> card coexistence system is not perfect. Potential problems are:
>
> 1) This function is a no-op on non-x86 architectures.
> 2) It does not take the PCI Bar may get relocated into consideration.
> 3) It is not effective for the PCI device without a dedicated VRAM Bar.
> 4) It is device-agnostic, thus it has to waste the effort to iterate all
>     of the PCI Bar to find the VRAM aperture.
> 5) It has invented lots of methods to determine which one is the default
>     boot device, but this is still a policy because it doesn't give the
>     user a choice to override.
>
> With the observation that device drivers may have better knowledge about
> which PCI bar contains the firmware FB. This patch tries to solve the above
> problems by introducing a function callback to the vga_client_register()
> function interface. DRM device drivers for the PCI device could provide
> a xx_vga_is_primary_gpu() function callback during the driver loading time.
> Once the driver binds the device successfully, VRAARB will call back to
> the driver. This gives the device drivers a chance to provide accurate
> boot device identification. Which in turn unlock the abitration service
> to non-x86 architectures. A device driver can also just pass a NULL pointer
> to keep the original behavior.
>
> This patch is intended to introducing the mechanism only, the specific
> implementation is left to the authors of various device driver. Also honor
> the comment: "Clients have *TWO* callback mechanisms they can use"
>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: Christian Konig <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: Pan Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan at amd.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
> Cc: Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com>
> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: Hawking Zhang <Hawking.Zhang at amd.com>
> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
> Cc: Lijo Lazar <lijo.lazar at amd.com>
> Cc: YiPeng Chai <YiPeng.Chai at amd.com>
> Cc: Bokun Zhang <Bokun.Zhang at amd.com>
> Cc: Likun Gao <Likun.Gao at amd.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> CC: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck at redhat.com>
> Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Abhishek Sahu <abhsahu at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> # i915
> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> # nouveau
> Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng at loongson.cn>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c |  2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vga.c   |  3 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c        |  2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c      |  2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c     |  2 +-
>   drivers/pci/vgaarb.c                       | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c           |  2 +-
>   include/linux/vgaarb.h                     |  8 ++--
>   8 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> index a92c6189b4b6..d98f0801ac77 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> @@ -4103,7 +4103,7 @@ int amdgpu_device_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>   	/* this will fail for cards that aren't VGA class devices, just
>   	 * ignore it */
>   	if ((adev->pdev->class >> 8) == PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA)
> -		vga_client_register(adev->pdev, amdgpu_device_vga_set_decode);
> +		vga_client_register(adev->pdev, amdgpu_device_vga_set_decode, NULL);
>   
>   	px = amdgpu_device_supports_px(ddev);
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vga.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vga.c
> index 286a0bdd28c6..98d7d4dffe9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vga.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vga.c
> @@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ intel_vga_set_decode(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool enable_decode)
>   
>   int intel_vga_register(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>   {
> -
>   	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(i915->drm.dev);
>   	int ret;
>   
> @@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ int intel_vga_register(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>   	 * then we do not take part in VGA arbitration and the
>   	 * vga_client_register() fails with -ENODEV.
>   	 */
> -	ret = vga_client_register(pdev, intel_vga_set_decode);
> +	ret = vga_client_register(pdev, intel_vga_set_decode, NULL);
>   	if (ret && ret != -ENODEV)
>   		return ret;
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c
> index 188ec82afcfb..d10a28c2c494 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static int lsdc_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>   
>   	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, ddev);
>   
> -	vga_client_register(pdev, lsdc_vga_set_decode);
> +	vga_client_register(pdev, lsdc_vga_set_decode, NULL);
>   
>   	drm_kms_helper_poll_init(ddev);
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c
> index f8bf0ec26844..162b4f4676c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_vga.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ nouveau_vga_init(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
>   		return;
>   	pdev = to_pci_dev(dev->dev);
>   
> -	vga_client_register(pdev, nouveau_vga_set_decode);
> +	vga_client_register(pdev, nouveau_vga_set_decode, NULL);
>   
>   	/* don't register Thunderbolt eGPU with vga_switcheroo */
>   	if (pci_is_thunderbolt_attached(pdev))
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> index afbb3a80c0c6..71f2ff39d6a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ int radeon_device_init(struct radeon_device *rdev,
>   	/* if we have > 1 VGA cards, then disable the radeon VGA resources */
>   	/* this will fail for cards that aren't VGA class devices, just
>   	 * ignore it */
> -	vga_client_register(rdev->pdev, radeon_vga_set_decode);
> +	vga_client_register(rdev->pdev, radeon_vga_set_decode, NULL);
>   
>   	if (rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_PX)
>   		runtime = true;
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c b/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> index 953daf731b2c..610ddcccef24 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct vga_device {
>   	bool bridge_has_one_vga;
>   	bool is_firmware_default;	/* device selected by firmware */
>   	unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool decode);
> +	bool (*is_primary_gpu)(struct pci_dev *pdev);
>   };
>   
>   static LIST_HEAD(vga_list);
> @@ -958,6 +959,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vga_set_legacy_decoding);
>    * @set_decode callback: If a client can disable its GPU VGA resource, it
>    * will get a callback from this to set the encode/decode state.
>    *
> + * @is_primary_gpu callback: call back to the device driver, query if a PCI
> + * GPU client is the primary display device, as device drivers (drm-based
> + * or fbdev-based) may have better knowledge if a specific device is the
> + * default boot device or should be the default boot device. But this
> + * callback is optional. A device driver can simply pass a NULL pointer to
> + * adhere to the original rules of arbitration.
> + *
>    * Rationale: we cannot disable VGA decode resources unconditionally, some
>    * single GPU laptops seem to require ACPI or BIOS access to the VGA registers
>    * to control things like backlights etc. Hopefully newer multi-GPU laptops do
> @@ -973,7 +981,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vga_set_legacy_decoding);
>    * Returns: 0 on success, -1 on failure
>    */
>   int vga_client_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> -		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool decode))
> +		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool decode),
> +		bool (*is_primary_gpu)(struct pci_dev *pdev))
>   {
>   	int ret = -ENODEV;
>   	struct vga_device *vgadev;
> @@ -985,6 +994,7 @@ int vga_client_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>   		goto bail;
>   
>   	vgadev->set_decode = set_decode;
> +	vgadev->is_primary_gpu = is_primary_gpu;
>   	ret = 0;
>   
>   bail:
> @@ -1490,6 +1500,30 @@ static void vga_arbiter_notify_clients(void)
>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vga_lock, flags);
>   }
>   
> +static void vga_arbiter_do_arbitration(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct vga_device *vgadev;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&vga_lock, flags);
> +	list_for_each_entry(vgadev, &vga_list, list) {
> +		if (vgadev->pdev != pdev)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		/* This device already the boot device, do nothing */
> +		if (pdev == vga_default_device())
> +			break;
> +
> +		if (vgadev->is_primary_gpu) {
> +			if (vgadev->is_primary_gpu(pdev)) {
> +				vgaarb_info(&pdev->dev, "Overriding as primary GPU\n");
> +				vga_set_default_device(pdev);
> +			}
> +		}
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vga_lock, flags);
> +}
> +
>   static int pci_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
>   		      void *data)
>   {
> @@ -1509,13 +1543,24 @@ static int pci_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
>   	 * cases of hotplugable vga cards.
>   	 */
>   
> -	if (action == BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE)
> +	switch (action) {
> +	case BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE:
>   		notify = vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(pdev);
> -	else if (action == BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE)
> +		if (notify)
> +			vga_arbiter_notify_clients();
> +		break;
> +	case BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE:
>   		notify = vga_arbiter_del_pci_device(pdev);
> +		if (notify)
> +			vga_arbiter_notify_clients();
> +		break;
> +	case BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER:
> +		vga_arbiter_do_arbitration(pdev);
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		break;
> +	}
>   
> -	if (notify)
> -		vga_arbiter_notify_clients();
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> index 20d7b69ea6ff..531c4d8ef26e 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> @@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ static int vfio_pci_vga_init(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev)
>   	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
>   
> -	ret = vga_client_register(pdev, vfio_pci_set_decode);
> +	ret = vga_client_register(pdev, vfio_pci_set_decode, NULL);
>   	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
>   	vga_set_legacy_decoding(pdev, vfio_pci_set_decode(pdev, false));
> diff --git a/include/linux/vgaarb.h b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> index 97129a1bbb7d..e4102be21f47 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ struct pci_dev *vga_default_device(void);
>   void vga_set_default_device(struct pci_dev *pdev);
>   int vga_remove_vgacon(struct pci_dev *pdev);
>   int vga_client_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> -		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool state));
> +		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool state),
> +		bool (*is_primary_gpu)(struct pci_dev *pdev));
>   #else /* CONFIG_VGA_ARB */
>   static inline void vga_set_legacy_decoding(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>   		unsigned int decodes)
> @@ -59,7 +60,8 @@ static inline int vga_remove_vgacon(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   static inline int vga_client_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> -		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool state))
> +		unsigned int (*set_decode)(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool state),
> +		bool (*is_primary_gpu)(struct pci_dev *pdev))
>   {
>   	return 0;
>   }
> @@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ static inline int vga_get_uninterruptible(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>   
>   static inline void vga_client_unregister(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>   {
> -	vga_client_register(pdev, NULL);
> +	vga_client_register(pdev, NULL, NULL);
>   }
>   
>   #endif /* LINUX_VGA_H */



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