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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:13:55 +0100
From: Thomas Hellström <thomas@...pmail.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kerolasa@....fi, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...net.be>,
Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
kerolasa@...il.com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c:146!
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:50:17 -0800 Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:43 pm Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Andrew Morton
>>>
>>>> hm, I'm a bit surprised to see the drm code using `struct
>>>> address_space' and read_mapping_page() and unmap_mapping_range() and
>>>> such. I thought those only worked with regular files and pagecache :)
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to briefly explain what's going on there?
>>>>
>>>> What instance of address_space_operations does ->dev_mapping actually
>>>> point at?
>>>>
>>> Okay a bit tired and headache coming on but I'll try, maybe jbarnes
>>> can help out,
>>>
>>> We need to provide mappings to userspace that are backed by memory
>>> that can move around behind the mappings.
>>>
>>> So userspace wants a mapping for a GEM object via the AGP/GTT aperture
>>> instead of directly to the backing pages.
>>> Now as the GEM object is backed by shmem we can't use the shmem file
>>> descriptor we have to tie the mapping to without
>>> hacking up the shmem mmap functionality which seemed like a bad plan.
>>>
>>> So GEM uses the device inode to setup the mappings on. We just use a
>>> simple linear allocator to split up the device inodes address space
>>> and assign chunks to handles for different objects. The userspace app
>>> then uses the handle via mmap to get access to the VMAs. Now when GEM
>>> wants to move that object out of the GTT or to another area of the GTT
>>> we need some way to invalidate it, so we use unmap_mapping_range
>>> which destroys all the mappings for the object in all the VMA for all
>>> the processes mapping it currently
>>>
>>> GEM's read_mapping_page is distinct from this and is to do with the
>>> shmem interfaceing.
>>>
>>> Not sure if this explains it or just make it worse.
>>>
>> Sounds right to me. The offsets are just handles, not real file objects or
>> backing store addresses. We use them to take advantage of all the inode
>> address mapping helpers, since they track stuff for us.
>>
>> That said, unmap_mapping_range may not be the best way to do this; basically
>> we need a way to invalidate a given processes' mapping of a GTT range (which
>> in turn is backed by real RAM). If there's some other way we should be doing
>> this I'm all ears.
>>
>
> Well, we'd need to call in the big guns on this one - I've already
> stirred Hugh ;)
>
> unmap_mapping_range() is basically a truncate thing - it shoots down
> all mappings of a range of a *file*. Across all processes in the
> machine which map that file.
>
> If that isn't what you want to do (and it sounds that way) then you'd
> want to use something which is mm_struct (or vma) centric, rather than
> file-centric. zap_page_range(), methinks.
>
>
I guess I was the one starting to use this function, so some explanation:
When the drm device is used to provide address space for buffers,
user-space actually see it as a file with a distinct offset where
buffers are laid out in a linear fashion, To access a certain buffer you
need to lseek() to the correct offset and then read() write() or, the
more common use, mmap / munmap.
When looking through its implementation, unmap_mapping_range() seemed to
do exactly the thing I wanted, namely to kill all user-space mappings of
all vmas of all processes mapping a part of the device address space.
And it saves us from storing a list of all vmas mapping the device
within the drm device.
What makes usage of unmap_mapping_range() on a device node with a well
defined offset-to-data mapping different from using it on a file?
/Thomas
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