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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:11:15 +0100
From: Adrian Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@...labora.com>
To: Caterina Shablia <caterina.shablia@...labora.com>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
Steven Price <steven.price@....com>, Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, kernel@...labora.com, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] drm/panthor: Add support for atomic page table
updates
Hi Caterina,
On 03.07.2025 15:28, Caterina Shablia wrote:
> From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>
>
> Move the lock/flush_mem operations around the gpuvm_sm_map() calls so
> we can implement true atomic page updates, where any access in the
> locked range done by the GPU has to wait for the page table updates
> to land before proceeding.
>
> This is needed for vkQueueBindSparse(), so we can replace the dummy
> page mapped over the entire object by actual BO backed pages in an atomic
> way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Caterina Shablia <caterina.shablia@...labora.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
> index b39ea6acc6a9..1e58948587a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
> @@ -387,6 +387,15 @@ struct panthor_vm {
> * flagged as faulty as a result.
> */
> bool unhandled_fault;
> +
> + /** @locked_region: Information about the currently locked region currently. */
Nit: delete second 'current'
> + struct {
> + /** @locked_region.start: Start of the locked region. */
> + u64 start;
> +
> + /** @locked_region.size: Size of the locked region. */
> + u64 size;
> + } locked_region;
> };
>
> /**
> @@ -775,6 +784,10 @@ int panthor_vm_active(struct panthor_vm *vm)
> }
>
> ret = panthor_mmu_as_enable(vm->ptdev, vm->as.id, transtab, transcfg, vm->memattr);
> + if (!ret && vm->locked_region.size) {
> + lock_region(ptdev, vm->as.id, vm->locked_region.start, vm->locked_region.size);
Why do we need to lock the region after enabling a new AS?
> + ret = wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id);
> + }
>
> out_make_active:
> if (!ret) {
> @@ -902,6 +915,9 @@ static int panthor_vm_unmap_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, u64 size)
> struct io_pgtable_ops *ops = vm->pgtbl_ops;
> u64 offset = 0;
>
> + drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base,
> + (iova < vm->locked_region.start) ||
> + (iova + size > vm->locked_region.start + vm->locked_region.size));
> drm_dbg(&ptdev->base, "unmap: as=%d, iova=%llx, len=%llx", vm->as.id, iova, size);
>
> while (offset < size) {
> @@ -915,13 +931,12 @@ static int panthor_vm_unmap_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, u64 size)
> iova + offset + unmapped_sz,
> iova + offset + pgsize * pgcount,
> iova, iova + size);
> - panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, iova, offset + unmapped_sz);
We've removed all calls to panthor_vm_flush_range(), but I don't see it being done in panthor_vm_exec_op()
before the region is unlocked. It's effectively become dead code.
However, even if we did 'panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, op->va.addr, op->va.range);' in panthor_vm_exec_op() right
before we unlock the region, we wouldn't be dealing well with the case in which only a partial unmap happens,
but maybe this isn't a big deal either.
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> offset += unmapped_sz;
> }
>
> - return panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, iova, size);
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static int
> @@ -938,6 +953,10 @@ panthor_vm_map_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, int prot,
> if (!size)
> return 0;
>
> + drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base,
> + (iova < vm->locked_region.start) ||
> + (iova + size > vm->locked_region.start + vm->locked_region.size));
> +
> for_each_sgtable_dma_sg(sgt, sgl, count) {
> dma_addr_t paddr = sg_dma_address(sgl);
> size_t len = sg_dma_len(sgl);
> @@ -985,7 +1004,7 @@ panthor_vm_map_pages(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 iova, int prot,
> offset = 0;
> }
>
> - return panthor_vm_flush_range(vm, start_iova, iova - start_iova);
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static int flags_to_prot(u32 flags)
> @@ -1654,6 +1673,38 @@ static const char *access_type_name(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
> }
> }
>
> +static int panthor_vm_lock_region(struct panthor_vm *vm, u64 start, u64 size)
> +{
> + struct panthor_device *ptdev = vm->ptdev;
> + int ret;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
> + drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base, vm->locked_region.start || vm->locked_region.size);
> + vm->locked_region.start = start;
> + vm->locked_region.size = size;
> + if (vm->as.id >= 0) {
I guess VM bind operations don't increase the active_cnt of a VM, so we might try to
be mapping addresses from UM while no active groups are submitting jobs targetting this VM?
> + lock_region(ptdev, vm->as.id, start, size);
> + ret = wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id);
I've noticed in mmu_hw_do_operation_locked() we don't do wait_ready() after locking the region.
Is it missing or else maybe waiting for the AS to be locked isn't necessary here?
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static void panthor_vm_unlock_region(struct panthor_vm *vm)
> +{
> + struct panthor_device *ptdev = vm->ptdev;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
> + if (vm->as.id >= 0) {
> + write_cmd(ptdev, vm->as.id, AS_COMMAND_FLUSH_MEM);
I guess this is why we no longer need to call panthor_vm_flush_range() right before this function.
Does AS_COMMAND_FLUSH_MEM only flush the locked region? Also, why not AS_COMMAND_FLUSH_PT instead?
> + drm_WARN_ON(&ptdev->base, wait_ready(ptdev, vm->as.id));
> + }
> + vm->locked_region.start = 0;
> + vm->locked_region.size = 0;
> + mutex_unlock(&ptdev->mmu->as.slots_lock);
> +}
> +
> static void panthor_mmu_irq_handler(struct panthor_device *ptdev, u32 status)
> {
> bool has_unhandled_faults = false;
> @@ -2179,6 +2230,11 @@ panthor_vm_exec_op(struct panthor_vm *vm, struct panthor_vm_op_ctx *op,
>
> mutex_lock(&vm->op_lock);
> vm->op_ctx = op;
> +
> + ret = panthor_vm_lock_region(vm, op->va.addr, op->va.range);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out;
> +
> switch (op_type) {
> case DRM_PANTHOR_VM_BIND_OP_TYPE_MAP:
> if (vm->unusable) {
> @@ -2199,6 +2255,9 @@ panthor_vm_exec_op(struct panthor_vm *vm, struct panthor_vm_op_ctx *op,
> break;
> }
>
> + panthor_vm_unlock_region(vm);
> +
> +out:
> if (ret && flag_vm_unusable_on_failure)
> vm->unusable = true;
>
> --
> 2.47.2
Adrian Larumbe
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