Since we are not concerned with userspace racing itself with set-tiling
(the order is indeterminant even if we take a lock), then we can safely
read back the single obj->tiling_mode and do the static lookup of
swizzle mode without having to take a lock.
get-tiling is reasonably frequent due to the back-channel passing around
of tiling parameters in DRI2/DRI3.
v2: Make tiling_mode a full unsigned int so that we can trivially use it
with READ_ONCE(). Separating it out into manual control over the flags
field was too noisy for a simple patch. Note that we could use the lower
bits of obj->stride for the tiling mode.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-16-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We don't need to incur the overhead of checking whether the object is
pinned prior to changing its madvise. If the object is pinned, the
madvise will not take effect until it is unpinned and so we cannot free
the pages being pointed at by hardware. Marking a pinned object with
allocated pages as DONTNEED will not trigger any undue warnings. The check
is therefore superfluous, and by removing it we can remove a linear walk
over all the vma the object has.
Still despite it being an overzealous check, that error code is part of
the current ABI and so we must proceed with caution.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-15-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
With a bit of care (and leniency) we can iterate over the object and
wait for previous rendering to complete with judicial use of atomic
reference counting. The ABI requires us to ensure that an active object
is eventually flushed (like the busy-ioctl) which is guaranteed by our
management of requests (i.e. everything that is submitted to hardware is
flushed in the same request). All we have to do is ensure that we can
detect when the requests are complete for reporting when the object is
idle (without triggering ETIME), locklessly - this is handled by
i915_gem_active_wait_unlocked().
The impact of this is actually quite small - the return to userspace
following the wait was already lockless and so we don't see much gain in
latency improvement upon completing the wait. What we do achieve here is
completing an already finished wait without hitting the struct_mutex,
our hold is quite short and so we are typically just a victim of
contention rather than a cause - but it is still one less contention
point!
v2: Break up a long line.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-12-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
If we try and read or write to an active request, we first must wait
upon the GPU completing that request. Let's do that without holding the
mutex (and so allow someone else to access the GPU whilst we wait). Upon
completion, we will acquire the mutex and only then start the operation
(i.e. we do not rely on state from before the initial wait).
v2: Repaint the goto labels
v3: Move the tracepoints back to the start of the ioctls
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-11-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
If we make the observation that mmap-offsets are only released when we
free an object, we can then deduce that the shrinker only creates free
space in the mmap arena indirectly by flushing the request list and
freeing expired objects. If we combine this with the lockless
vma-manager and lockless idling, we can avoid taking our big struct_mutex
until we need to actually free the requests.
One side-effect is that we defer the madvise checking until we need the
pages (i.e. the fault handler). This brings us into line with the other
delayed checks (and madvise in general).
v2: s/ret/err/ and use if (!err) rather than if (ret == 0)
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-9-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We can now wait for the GPU (all engines) to become idle without
requiring the struct_mutex. Inside the shrinker, we need to currently
take the struct_mutex in order to purge objects and to purge the objects
we need the GPU to be idle - causing a stall whilst we hold the
struct_mutex. We can hide most of that stall by performing the wait
before taking the struct_mutex and only doing essential waits for
new rendering on objects to be freed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-8-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The principal motivation for this was to try and eliminate the
struct_mutex from i915_gem_suspend - but we still need to hold the mutex
current for the i915_gem_context_lost(). (The issue there is that there
may be an indirect lockdep cycle between cpu_hotplug (i.e. suspend) and
struct_mutex via the stop_machine().) For the moment, enabling last
request tracking for the engine, allows us to do busyness checking and
waiting without requiring the struct_mutex - which is useful in its own
right.
As a side-effect of having a robust means for tracking engine busyness,
we can replace our other busyness heuristic, that of comparing against
the last submitted seqno. For paranoid reasons, we have a semi-ordered
check of that seqno inside the hangchecker, which we can now improve to
an ordered check of the engine's busyness (removing a locked xchg in the
process).
v2: Pass along "bool interruptible" as being unlocked we cannot rely on
i915->mm.interruptible being stable or even under our control.
v3: Replace check Ironlake i915_gpu_busy() with the common precalculated value
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-6-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Before suspending (or unloading), we would first wait upon all rendering
to be completed and then disable the rings. This later step is a remanent
from DRI1 days when we did not use request tracking for all operations
upon the ring. Now that we are sure we are waiting upon the very last
operation by the engine, we can forgo clobbering the ring registers,
though we do keep the assert that the engine is indeed idle before
sleeping.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-5-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We can completely avoid taking the struct_mutex around the non-blocking
waits by switching over to the RCU request management (trading the mutex
for a RCU read lock and some complex atomic operations). The improvement
is that we gain further contention reduction, and overall the code
become simpler due to the reduced mutex dancing.
v2: Move i915_gem_fault tracepoint back to the start of the function,
before the unlocked wait.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470388464-28458-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Backmerge the 4.8 pull request state from Dave - conflicts were
getting out of hand, and Chris has some patches which outright don't
apply without everything merged together again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
If we enable RCU for the requests (providing a grace period where we can
inspect a "dead" request before it is freed), we can allow callers to
carefully perform lockless lookup of an active request.
However, by enabling deferred freeing of requests, we can potentially
hog a lot of memory when dealing with tens of thousands of requests per
second - with a quick insertion of a synchronize_rcu() inside our
shrinker callback, that issue disappears.
v2: Currently, it is our responsibility to handle reclaim i.e. to avoid
hogging memory with the delayed slab frees. At the moment, we wait for a
grace period in the shrinker, and block for all RCU callbacks on oom.
Suggested alternatives focus on flushing our RCU callback when we have a
certain number of outstanding request frees, and blocking on that flush
after a second high watermark. (So rather than wait for the system to
run out of memory, we stop issuing requests - both are nondeterministic.)
Paul E. McKenney wrote:
Another approach is synchronize_rcu() after some largish number of
requests. The advantage of this approach is that it throttles the
production of callbacks at the source. The corresponding disadvantage
is that it slows things up.
Another approach is to use call_rcu(), but if the previous call_rcu()
is still in flight, block waiting for it. Yet another approach is
the get_state_synchronize_rcu() / cond_synchronize_rcu() pair. The
idea is to do something like this:
cond_synchronize_rcu(cookie);
cookie = get_state_synchronize_rcu();
You would of course do an initial get_state_synchronize_rcu() to
get things going. This would not block unless there was less than
one grace period's worth of time between invocations. But this
assumes a busy system, where there is almost always a grace period
in flight. But you can make that happen as follows:
cond_synchronize_rcu(cookie);
cookie = get_state_synchronize_rcu();
call_rcu(&my_rcu_head, noop_function);
Note that you need additional code to make sure that the old callback
has completed before doing a new one. Setting and clearing a flag
with appropriate memory ordering control suffices (e.g,. smp_load_acquire()
and smp_store_release()).
v3: More comments on compiler and processor order of operations within
the RCU lookup and discover we can use rcu_access_pointer() here instead.
v4: Wrap i915_gem_active_get_rcu() to take the rcu_read_lock itself.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-25-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We are motivated to avoid using a bitfield for obj->active for a couple
of reasons. Firstly, we wish to document our lockless read of obj->active
using READ_ONCE inside i915_gem_busy_ioctl() and that requires an
integral type (i.e. not a bitfield). Secondly, gcc produces abysmal code
when presented with a bitfield and that shows up high on the profiles of
request tracking (mainly due to excess memory traffic as it converts
the bitfield to a register and back and generates frequent AGI in the
process).
v2: BIT, break up a long line in compute the other engines, new paint
for i915_gem_object_is_active (now i915_gem_object_get_active).
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-23-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Not only is i915_vma_pin() called for every single object on every single
execbuf, it is usually a simple increment as the VMA is already bound for
execution by the GPU. Rearrange the tests for unbound and pin_count
overflow so that we can do the increment and test very cheaply and
compact enough to inline the operation into execbuf. The trick used is
to note that we can check for an overflow bit (keeping space available
for it inside the flags) at the same time as checking the binding bits.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-17-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Our GPUs impose certain requirements upon buffers that depend upon how
exactly they are used. Typically this is expressed as that they require
a larger surface than would be naively computed by pitch * height.
Normally such requirements are hidden away in the userspace driver, but
when we accept pointers from strangers and later impose extra conditions
on them, the original client allocator has no idea about the
monstrosities in the GPU and we require the userspace driver to inform
the kernel how many padding pages are required beyond the client
allocation.
v2: Long time, no see
v3: Try an anonymous union for uapi struct compatibility
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-7-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
This reimplements the denial-of-service protection against igt from
commit 227f782e46 ("drm/i915: Retire requests before creating a new
one") and transfers the stall from before each batch into get_pages().
The issue is that the stall is increasing latency between batches which
is detrimental in some cases (especially coupled with execlists) to
keeping the GPU well fed. Also we have made the observation that retiring
requests can of itself free objects (and requests) and therefore makes
a good first step when shrinking.
v2: Recycle objects prior to i915_gem_object_get_pages()
v3: Remove the reference to the ring from i915_gem_requests_ring() as it
operates on an intel_engine_cs.
v4: Since commit 9b5f4e5ed6 ("drm/i915: Retire oldest completed request
before allocating next") we no longer need the safeguard to retire
requests before get_pages(). We no longer see the huge latencies when
hitting the shrinker between allocations.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
