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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:26:36 +0000
From: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>
Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
 Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>, Chia-I Wu
 <olvaffe@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
 Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>, Emma Anholt <emma@...olt.net>,
 Melissa Wen <mwen@...lia.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...labora.com,
 virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 18/30] drm/panfrost: Explicitly get and put drm-shmem
 pages

On 26/01/2024 09:39, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:47:24 +0000
> Steven Price <steven.price@....com> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/01/2024 18:46, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> To simplify the drm-shmem refcnt handling, we're moving away from
>>> the implicit get_pages() that is used by get_pages_sgt(). From now on
>>> drivers will have to pin pages while they use sgt. Panfrost's shrinker
>>> doesn't support swapping out BOs, hence pages are pinned and sgt is valid
>>> as long as pages' use-count > 0.
>>>
>>> In Panfrost, panfrost_gem_mapping, which is the object representing a
>>> GPU mapping of a BO, owns a pages ref. This guarantees that any BO being
>>> mapped GPU side has its pages retained till the mapping is destroyed.
>>>
>>> Since pages are no longer guaranteed to stay pinned for the BO lifetime,
>>> and MADVISE(DONT_NEED) flagging remains after the GEM handle has been
>>> destroyed, we need to add an extra 'is_purgeable' check in
>>> panfrost_gem_purge(), to make sure we're not trying to purge a BO that
>>> already had its pages released.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>  
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
>>
>> Although I don't like the condition in panfrost_gem_mapping_release()
>> for drm_gem_shmem_put_pages() and assigning NULL to bo->sgts - it feels
>> very fragile. See below.
>>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c       | 63 ++++++++++++++-----
>>>  .../gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem_shrinker.c  |  6 ++
>>>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
>>> index f268bd5c2884..7edfc12f7c1f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
>>> @@ -35,20 +35,6 @@ static void panfrost_gem_free_object(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
>>>  	 */
>>>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&bo->mappings.list));
>>>  
>>> -	if (bo->sgts) {
>>> -		int i;
>>> -		int n_sgt = bo->base.base.size / SZ_2M;
>>> -
>>> -		for (i = 0; i < n_sgt; i++) {
>>> -			if (bo->sgts[i].sgl) {
>>> -				dma_unmap_sgtable(pfdev->dev, &bo->sgts[i],
>>> -						  DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL, 0);
>>> -				sg_free_table(&bo->sgts[i]);
>>> -			}
>>> -		}
>>> -		kvfree(bo->sgts);
>>> -	}
>>> -
>>>  	drm_gem_shmem_free(&bo->base);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> @@ -85,11 +71,40 @@ panfrost_gem_teardown_mapping(struct panfrost_gem_mapping *mapping)
>>>  
>>>  static void panfrost_gem_mapping_release(struct kref *kref)
>>>  {
>>> -	struct panfrost_gem_mapping *mapping;
>>> -
>>> -	mapping = container_of(kref, struct panfrost_gem_mapping, refcount);
>>> +	struct panfrost_gem_mapping *mapping =
>>> +		container_of(kref, struct panfrost_gem_mapping, refcount);
>>> +	struct panfrost_gem_object *bo = mapping->obj;
>>> +	struct panfrost_device *pfdev = bo->base.base.dev->dev_private;
>>>  
>>>  	panfrost_gem_teardown_mapping(mapping);
>>> +
>>> +	/* On heap BOs, release the sgts created in the fault handler path. */
>>> +	if (bo->sgts) {
>>> +		int i, n_sgt = bo->base.base.size / SZ_2M;
>>> +
>>> +		for (i = 0; i < n_sgt; i++) {
>>> +			if (bo->sgts[i].sgl) {
>>> +				dma_unmap_sgtable(pfdev->dev, &bo->sgts[i],
>>> +						  DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL, 0);
>>> +				sg_free_table(&bo->sgts[i]);
>>> +			}
>>> +		}
>>> +		kvfree(bo->sgts);
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	/* Pages ref is owned by the panfrost_gem_mapping object. We must
>>> +	 * release our pages ref (if any), before releasing the object
>>> +	 * ref.
>>> +	 * Non-heap BOs acquired the pages at panfrost_gem_mapping creation
>>> +	 * time, and heap BOs may have acquired pages if the fault handler
>>> +	 * was called, in which case bo->sgts should be non-NULL.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (!bo->base.base.import_attach && (!bo->is_heap || bo->sgts) &&
>>> +	    bo->base.madv >= 0) {
>>> +		drm_gem_shmem_put_pages(&bo->base);
>>> +		bo->sgts = NULL;  
>>
>> The assignment of NULL here really ought to be unconditional - it isn't
>> a valid pointer because of the kvfree() above.
> 
> Fair enough. How about we drop the '|| bo->sgts' and add an
> drm_gem_shmem_put_pages() to the above if (bo->sgts) block, where we'll
> also assign bo->sgts to NULL?

Yes that would be good.

>>
>> I also feel that the big condition above suggests there's a need for a
>> better state machine to keep track of what's going on.
> 
> I'm planning to extend drm_gem_shmem to support the alloc-on-fault use
> case that all Mali GPUs seem to rely on (lima, panfrost and soon
> panthor would use those helpers). The idea is to:
> 
> - make the allocation non-blocking, so we can kill the blocking
>   allocation in the dma signalling path (basically what intel does)
> - allow dynamic extension of the pages array using an xarray instead of
>   a plain array
> 
> Hopefully this makes the state tracking a lot easier, and we can also
> get rid of the hack we have in panfrost/lima where we manipulate
> drm_gem_shmem_object refcounts directly.

That sounds great - it would definitely be good to get rid of the
refcount hack, it confuses me everytime ;)

Thanks,

Steve

>>
>> But having said that I do think this series as a whole is an
>> improvement, it's nice to get the shrinker code generic. And sadly I
>> don't have an immediate idea for cleaning this up, hence my R-b.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>>  	drm_gem_object_put(&mapping->obj->base.base);
>>>  	panfrost_mmu_ctx_put(mapping->mmu);
>>>  	kfree(mapping);
>>> @@ -125,6 +140,20 @@ int panfrost_gem_open(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct drm_file *file_priv)
>>>  	if (!mapping)
>>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>>>  
>>> +	if (!bo->is_heap && !bo->base.base.import_attach) {
>>> +		/* Pages ref is owned by the panfrost_gem_mapping object.
>>> +		 * For non-heap BOs, we request pages at mapping creation
>>> +		 * time, such that the panfrost_mmu_map() call, further down in
>>> +		 * this function, is guaranteed to have pages_use_count > 0
>>> +		 * when drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt() is called.
>>> +		 */
>>> +		ret = drm_gem_shmem_get_pages(&bo->base);
>>> +		if (ret) {
>>> +			kfree(mapping);
>>> +			return ret;
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mapping->node);
>>>  	kref_init(&mapping->refcount);
>>>  	drm_gem_object_get(obj);
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem_shrinker.c
>>> index 02b60ea1433a..d4fb0854cf2f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem_shrinker.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem_shrinker.c
>>> @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ static bool panfrost_gem_purge(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
>>>  	if (!dma_resv_trylock(shmem->base.resv))
>>>  		goto unlock_mappings;
>>>  
>>> +	/* BO might have become unpurgeable if the last pages_use_count ref
>>> +	 * was dropped, but the BO hasn't been destroyed yet.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (!drm_gem_shmem_is_purgeable(shmem))
>>> +		goto unlock_mappings;
>>> +
>>>  	panfrost_gem_teardown_mappings_locked(bo);
>>>  	drm_gem_shmem_purge_locked(&bo->base);
>>>  	ret = true;  
>>
> 


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