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Message-ID: <e933b01d-5f3c-f7f6-48b9-1106eb9a431c@amd.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Apr 2021 11:34:48 +0200
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     David Stevens <stevensd@...omium.org>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "drm/syncobj: use dma_fence_get_stub"

Am 08.04.21 um 11:30 schrieb David Stevens:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:03 PM Christian König <christian.koenig@....com> wrote:
>> Am 08.04.21 um 06:59 schrieb David Stevens:
>>> From: David Stevens <stevensd@...omium.org>
>>>
>>> This reverts commit 86bbd89d5da66fe760049ad3f04adc407ec0c4d6.
>>>
>>> Using the singleton stub fence in drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle means
>>> that all syncobjs created in an already signaled state or any syncobjs
>>> signaled by userspace will reference the singleton fence when exported
>>> to a sync_file. If those sync_files are queried with SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO,
>>> then the timestamp_ns value returned will correspond to whenever the
>>> singleton stub fence was first initialized. This can break the ability
>>> of userspace to use timestamps of these fences, as the singleton stub
>>> fence's timestamp bears no relationship to any meaningful event.
>> And why exactly is having the timestamp of the call to
>> drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle() better?
> The timestamp returned by SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO is the "timestamp of
> status change in nanoseconds". If userspace signals the fence with
> DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_SIGNAL, then a timestamp from
> drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle corresponds to the status change. If
> userspace sets DRM_SYNCOBJ_CREATE_SIGNALED when creating a fence, then
> the status change happens immediately upon creation, which again
> corresponds to when drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle gets called.

Ok, that makes sense.

>
>> Additional if you really need that please don't revert the patch.
>> Instead provide a function which returns a newly initialized stub fence
>> in the dma_fence.c code.
> Ack.

Just add a something like dma_fence_get_new_stub() with kmalloc(), 
dma_fence_init() and dma_fence_signal().

Shouldn't be more than a six liner.

Thanks,
Christian.

>
> -David
>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@...omium.org>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>    1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c
>>> index 349146049849..7cc11f1a83f4 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c
>>> @@ -211,6 +211,21 @@ struct syncobj_wait_entry {
>>>    static void syncobj_wait_syncobj_func(struct drm_syncobj *syncobj,
>>>                                      struct syncobj_wait_entry *wait);
>>>
>>> +struct drm_syncobj_stub_fence {
>>> +     struct dma_fence base;
>>> +     spinlock_t lock;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +static const char *drm_syncobj_stub_fence_get_name(struct dma_fence *fence)
>>> +{
>>> +     return "syncobjstub";
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static const struct dma_fence_ops drm_syncobj_stub_fence_ops = {
>>> +     .get_driver_name = drm_syncobj_stub_fence_get_name,
>>> +     .get_timeline_name = drm_syncobj_stub_fence_get_name,
>>> +};
>>> +
>>>    /**
>>>     * drm_syncobj_find - lookup and reference a sync object.
>>>     * @file_private: drm file private pointer
>>> @@ -344,18 +359,24 @@ void drm_syncobj_replace_fence(struct drm_syncobj *syncobj,
>>>    }
>>>    EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_syncobj_replace_fence);
>>>
>>> -/**
>>> - * drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle - assign a stub fence to the sync object
>>> - * @syncobj: sync object to assign the fence on
>>> - *
>>> - * Assign a already signaled stub fence to the sync object.
>>> - */
>>> -static void drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(struct drm_syncobj *syncobj)
>>> +static int drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(struct drm_syncobj *syncobj)
>>>    {
>>> -     struct dma_fence *fence = dma_fence_get_stub();
>>> +     struct drm_syncobj_stub_fence *fence;
>>>
>>> -     drm_syncobj_replace_fence(syncobj, fence);
>>> -     dma_fence_put(fence);
>>> +     fence = kzalloc(sizeof(*fence), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +     if (fence == NULL)
>>> +             return -ENOMEM;
>>> +
>>> +     spin_lock_init(&fence->lock);
>>> +     dma_fence_init(&fence->base, &drm_syncobj_stub_fence_ops,
>>> +                    &fence->lock, 0, 0);
>>> +     dma_fence_signal(&fence->base);
>>> +
>>> +     drm_syncobj_replace_fence(syncobj, &fence->base);
>>> +
>>> +     dma_fence_put(&fence->base);
>>> +
>>> +     return 0;
>>>    }
>>>
>>>    /* 5s default for wait submission */
>>> @@ -469,6 +490,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_syncobj_free);
>>>    int drm_syncobj_create(struct drm_syncobj **out_syncobj, uint32_t flags,
>>>                       struct dma_fence *fence)
>>>    {
>>> +     int ret;
>>>        struct drm_syncobj *syncobj;
>>>
>>>        syncobj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_syncobj), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> @@ -479,8 +501,13 @@ int drm_syncobj_create(struct drm_syncobj **out_syncobj, uint32_t flags,
>>>        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&syncobj->cb_list);
>>>        spin_lock_init(&syncobj->lock);
>>>
>>> -     if (flags & DRM_SYNCOBJ_CREATE_SIGNALED)
>>> -             drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(syncobj);
>>> +     if (flags & DRM_SYNCOBJ_CREATE_SIGNALED) {
>>> +             ret = drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(syncobj);
>>> +             if (ret < 0) {
>>> +                     drm_syncobj_put(syncobj);
>>> +                     return ret;
>>> +             }
>>> +     }
>>>
>>>        if (fence)
>>>                drm_syncobj_replace_fence(syncobj, fence);
>>> @@ -1322,8 +1349,11 @@ drm_syncobj_signal_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>>>        if (ret < 0)
>>>                return ret;
>>>
>>> -     for (i = 0; i < args->count_handles; i++)
>>> -             drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(syncobjs[i]);
>>> +     for (i = 0; i < args->count_handles; i++) {
>>> +             ret = drm_syncobj_assign_null_handle(syncobjs[i]);
>>> +             if (ret < 0)
>>> +                     break;
>>> +     }
>>>
>>>        drm_syncobj_array_free(syncobjs, args->count_handles);
>>>

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