[Nouveau] [PATCH drm-next v6 02/13] drm: manager to keep track of GPUs VA mappings

[Danilo Krummrich]

Hi Boris,

On 6/30/23 10:02, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Danilo,
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:25:18 +0200
> Danilo Krummrich <dakr at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> + *	int driver_gpuva_remap(struct drm_gpuva_op *op, void *__ctx)
>> + *	{
>> + *		struct driver_context *ctx = __ctx;
>> + *
>> + *		drm_gpuva_remap(ctx->prev_va, ctx->next_va, &op->remap);
>> + *
>> + *		drm_gpuva_unlink(op->remap.unmap->va);
>> + *		kfree(op->remap.unmap->va);
>> + *
>> + *		if (op->remap.prev) {
>> + *			drm_gpuva_link(ctx->prev_va);
> 
> I ended up switching to dma_resv-based locking for the GEMs and I
> wonder what the locking is supposed to look like in the async-mapping
> case, where we insert/remove the VA nodes in the drm_sched::run_job()
> path.

If you decide to pick the interface where you just call 
drm_gpuva_sm_[un]map() and receive a callback for each operation it 
takes to fulfill the request, you probably do this because you want to 
do everything one shot, updating the VA space, link/unlink GPUVAs 
to/from its corresponding backing GEMs, do the actual GPU mappings.

This has a few advantages over generating a list of operations when the 
job is submitted. You've pointed out one of them, when you noticed that 
with a list of operations one can't sneak in a synchronous job between 
already queued up asynchronous jobs.

However, for the asynchronous path it has the limitation that the 
dma-resv lock can't be used to link/unlink GPUVAs to/from its 
corresponding backing GEMs, since this would happen in the fence 
signalling critical path and we're not allowed to hold the dma-resv lock 
there. Hence, as we discussed I added the option for drivers to provide 
an external lock for that, just to be able to keep some lockdep checks.

> 
> What I have right now is something like:
> 
> 	dma_resv_lock(vm->resv);
> 
> 	// split done in drm_gpuva_sm_map(), each iteration
> 	// of the loop is a call to the driver ->[re,un]map()
> 	// hook
> 	for_each_sub_op() {
> 		
> 		// Private BOs have their resv field pointing to the
> 		// VM resv and we take the VM resv lock before calling
> 		// drm_gpuva_sm_map()
> 		if (vm->resv != gem->resv)
> 			dma_resv_lock(gem->resv);
> 
> 		drm_gpuva_[un]link(va);
> 		gem_[un]pin(gem);
> 
> 		if (vm->resv != gem->resv)
> 			dma_resv_unlock(gem->resv);
> 	}
> 
> 	dma_resv_unlock(vm->resv);
> 

I'm not sure I get this code right, reading "for_each_sub_op()" and 
"drm_gpuva_sm_map()" looks a bit like things are mixed up?

Or do you mean to represent the sum of all callbacks with 
"for_each_sub_op()"? In this case I assume this code runs in 
drm_sched::run_job() and hence isn't allowed to take the dma-resv lock.

> In practice, I don't expect things to deadlock, because the VM resv is
> not supposed to be taken outside the VM context and the locking order
> is always the same (VM lock first, and then each shared BO
> taken/released independently), but I'm not super thrilled by this
> nested lock, and I'm wondering if we shouldn't have a pass collecting
> locks in a drm_exec context first, and then have
> the operations executed. IOW, something like that:
> 
> 	drm_exec_init(exec, DRM_EXEC_IGNORE_DUPLICATES)
> 	drm_exec_until_all_locked(exec) {
> 		// Dummy GEM is the dummy GEM object I use to make the VM
> 		// participate in the locking without having to teach
> 		// drm_exec how to deal with raw dma_resv objects.
> 		ret = drm_exec_lock_obj(exec, vm->dummy_gem);
> 		drm_exec_retry_on_contention(exec);
> 		if (ret)
> 			return ret;
> 
> 		// Could take the form of drm_gpuva_sm_[un]map_acquire_locks()
> 		// helpers
> 		for_each_sub_op() {
> 			ret = drm_exec_lock_obj(exec, gem);
> 			if (ret)
> 				return ret;
> 		}
> 	}
> 
> 	// each iteration of the loop is a call to the driver
> 	// ->[re,un]map() hook
> 	for_each_sub_op() {
> 		...
> 		gem_[un]pin_locked(gem);
> 		drm_gpuva_[un]link(va);
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> 	drm_exec_fini(exec);

I have a follow-up patch (still WIP) in the queue to generalize dma-resv 
handling, fence handling and GEM validation within the GPUVA manager as 
optional helper functions: 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouvelles/kernel/-/commit/a5fc29f3b1edbf3f96fb5a21b858ffe00a3f2584

This was suggested by Matt Brost.

- Danilo

> 
> Don't know if I got this right, or if I'm just confused again by how
> the drm_gpuva API is supposed to be used.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
>> + *			ctx->prev_va = NULL;
>> + *		}
>> + *
>> + *		if (op->remap.next) {
>> + *			drm_gpuva_link(ctx->next_va);
>> + *			ctx->next_va = NULL;
>> + *		}
>> + *
>> + *		return 0;
>> + *	}
>