[PATCH v6] drm/i915/gvt: skip populate shadow context if guest context not changed

Zhao, Yan Y yan.y.zhao at intel.com
Fri Apr 17 09:29:35 UTC 2020



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 5:25 PM
> To: Zhao, Yan Y <yan.y.zhao at intel.com>; intel-gvt-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: zhenyuw at linux.intel.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v6] drm/i915/gvt: skip populate shadow context if guest
> context not changed
> 
> > From: Zhao, Yan Y <yan.y.zhao at intel.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:45 PM
> >
> > Software is not expected to populate engine context except when using
> > restore inhibit bit or golden state to initialize it for the first time.
> >
> > Therefore, if a newly submitted guest context is the same as the last
> > shadowed one, no need to populate its engine context from guest again.
> >
> > Currently using lrca + ring_context_gpa to identify whether two guest
> > contexts are the same.
> >
> > The reason of why context id is not included as an identifier is that
> > i915 recently changed the code and context id is only unique for a
> > context when OA is enabled. And when OA is on, context id is generated
> > based on lrca. Therefore, in that case, if two contexts are of the
> > same lrca, they have identical context ids as well.
> > (This patch also works with old guest kernel like 4.20.)
> >
> > for guest context, if its ggtt entry is modified after last context
> > shadowing, it is also deemed as not the same context as last shadowed one.
> >
> > v6:
> > -change type of lrca of last ctx to be u32. as currently it's all
> > protected by vgpu lock (Kevin Tian) -reset valid of last ctx to false
> > once it needs to be repopulated before population completes
> > successfully (Kevin Tian)
> >
> > v5:
> > -merge all 3 patches into one patch  (Zhenyu Wang)
> >
> > v4:
> > - split the series into 3 patches.
> > - don't turn on optimization until last patch in this series (Kevin
> > Tian)
> > - define lrca to be atomic in this patch rather than update its type
> > in the second patch (Kevin Tian)
> >
> > v3: updated commit message to describe engine context and context id
> > clearly (Kevin Tian)
> > v2: rebased to 5.6.0-rc4+Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao
> > <yan.y.zhao at intel.com>
> >
> > Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c       | 15 ++++++++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h       |  5 ++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c | 36
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c index 2a4b23f8aa74..d2b0d85b39bc
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c
> > @@ -2341,12 +2341,27 @@ int
> intel_vgpu_emulate_ggtt_mmio_write(struct
> > intel_vgpu *vgpu,
> >  {
> >  	const struct intel_gvt_device_info *info = &vgpu->gvt->device_info;
> >  	int ret;
> > +	struct intel_vgpu_submission *s = &vgpu->submission;
> > +	struct intel_engine_cs *engine;
> > +	int i;
> >
> >  	if (bytes != 4 && bytes != 8)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> >  	off -= info->gtt_start_offset;
> >  	ret = emulate_ggtt_mmio_write(vgpu, off, p_data, bytes);
> > +
> > +	/* if ggtt of last submitted context is written,
> > +	 * that context is probably got unpinned.
> > +	 * Set last shadowed ctx to invalid.
> > +	 */
> > +	for_each_engine(engine, vgpu->gvt->gt, i) {
> > +		if (!s->last_ctx[i].valid)
> > +			continue;
> > +
> > +		if (s->last_ctx[i].lrca == (off >> info->gtt_entry_size_shift))
> > +			s->last_ctx[i].valid = false;
> > +	}
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h index 58c2c7932e3f..a4a6db6b7f90
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h
> > @@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ struct intel_vgpu_submission {
> >  	const struct intel_vgpu_submission_ops *ops;
> >  	int virtual_submission_interface;
> >  	bool active;
> > +	struct {
> > +		u32 lrca;
> > +		bool valid;
> > +		u64 ring_context_gpa;
> > +	} last_ctx[I915_NUM_ENGINES];
> >  };
> >
> >  struct intel_vgpu {
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c
> > index f939ec3be39e..d13204658b57 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c
> > @@ -135,7 +135,11 @@ static int populate_shadow_context(struct
> > intel_vgpu_workload *workload)
> >  	unsigned long context_gpa, context_page_num;
> >  	unsigned long gpa_base; /* first gpa of consecutive GPAs */
> >  	unsigned long gpa_size; /* size of consecutive GPAs */
> > +	struct intel_vgpu_submission *s = &vgpu->submission;
> >  	int i;
> > +	bool skip = false;
> > +	int ring_id = workload->engine->id;
> > +	bool valid;
> >
> >  	GEM_BUG_ON(!intel_context_is_pinned(ctx));
> >
> > @@ -175,13 +179,31 @@ static int populate_shadow_context(struct
> > intel_vgpu_workload *workload)
> >
> >  	sr_oa_regs(workload, (u32 *)shadow_ring_context, false);
> >
> > -	if (IS_RESTORE_INHIBIT(shadow_ring_context->ctx_ctrl.val))
> > -		return 0;
> > +	gvt_dbg_sched("ring %s workload lrca %x, ctx_id %x, ctx gpa %llx",
> > +			workload->engine->name, workload->ctx_desc.lrca,
> > +			workload->ctx_desc.context_id,
> > +			workload->ring_context_gpa);
> >
> > -	gvt_dbg_sched("ring %s workload lrca %x",
> > -		      workload->engine->name,
> > -		      workload->ctx_desc.lrca);
> > +	/* only need to ensure this context is not pinned/unpinned during
> > the
> > +	 * period from last submission to this this submission.
> > +	 * Upon reaching this function, the currently submitted context is not
> > +	 * supposed to get unpinned. If a misbehaving guest driver ever does
> > +	 * this, it would corrupt itself.
> > +	 */
> > +	valid = s->last_ctx[ring_id].valid;
> > +	if (valid && (s->last_ctx[ring_id].lrca ==
> > +				workload->ctx_desc.lrca) &&
> > +			(s->last_ctx[ring_id].ring_context_gpa ==
> > +				workload->ring_context_gpa))
> > +		skip = true;
> >
> > +	s->last_ctx[ring_id].lrca = workload->ctx_desc.lrca;
> > +	s->last_ctx[ring_id].ring_context_gpa = workload->ring_context_gpa;
> > +
> > +	if (IS_RESTORE_INHIBIT(shadow_ring_context->ctx_ctrl.val) || skip)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	s->last_ctx[ring_id].valid = false;
> >  	context_page_num = workload->engine->context_size;
> >  	context_page_num = context_page_num >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >
> > @@ -220,6 +242,8 @@ static int populate_shadow_context(struct
> > intel_vgpu_workload *workload)
> >  		gpa_size = I915_GTT_PAGE_SIZE;
> >  		dst = context_base + (i << I915_GTT_PAGE_SHIFT);
> >  	}
> > +	if (!valid)
> > +		s->last_ctx[ring_id].valid = true;
> 
> since you always clear s->last_ctx[ring_id].valid now, then here you should
> always set it to true.
> 
> with this fixed:
> 	Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> 
Just found the same error and updated one.
Thanks 😊

> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -1297,6 +1321,8 @@ int intel_vgpu_setup_submission(struct
> > intel_vgpu
> > *vgpu)
> >  	atomic_set(&s->running_workload_num, 0);
> >  	bitmap_zero(s->tlb_handle_pending, I915_NUM_ENGINES);
> >
> > +	memset(s->last_ctx, 0, sizeof(s->last_ctx));
> > +
> >  	i915_vm_put(&ppgtt->vm);
> >  	return 0;
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1



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