Re: [PATCH 1/8] drm/amdgpu: fix ATC handling for Ryzen

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On 2019-04-01 2:03 p.m., Christian König wrote:
> Am 01.04.19 um 19:59 schrieb Kuehling, Felix:
>> On 2019-04-01 7:23 a.m., Christian König wrote:
>>> Am 30.03.19 um 01:41 schrieb Kuehling, Felix:
>>>> Patches 1-3 are Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>> About the direct mode, that removes a bunch of synchronization, so it
>>>> must make some assumptions about the state of the page tables. What
>>>> makes that safe?
>>> Direct mode is only supposed to be used during page fault handling.
>>>
>>> E.g. we know that the page tables are in the correct place in this
>>> situation because the hardware is hammering on a PTE and waiting for
>>> it to become valid.
>> A fence could also indicate a concurrent modification of the page table.
>> For example a PTB may be allocated and initialized concurrently, not in
>> direct mode. Would direct mode need to wait for a fence that indicates
>> completion of the PTB initialization? Or do we have some way to ensure
>> such concurrent allocation and initialization of a PTB cannot happen?
>
> Yeah, that is a very good question I haven't solved yet either.
>
> My currently best idea is to separate the address space, e.g. use the 
> lower address space for on demand paging and the higher with classic 
> pre-filled page tables for the MM and display engines.

That may work for graphics, but doesn't work for KFD. I need the ability 
to mix pre-filled page tables with HMM in the same SVM address space. 
That's why I was thinking that all page table updates for a given VM 
would need to use the same method.

Regards,
   Felix

>
> Christian.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>     Felix
>>
>>
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>>>    Is it safe to use direct-mode on a
>>>> per-page-table-update basis? Or do all page table updates have to go
>>>> through direct mode to avoid hazards? If yes, then maybe this 
>>>> should be
>>>> a property of the VM rather than a parameter that gets passed to a 
>>>> bunch
>>>> of function calls.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>      Felix
>>>>
>>>> On 2019-03-29 6:45 a.m., Christian König wrote:
>>>>> Otherwise we don't correctly use translate further.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>>>>>     1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
>>>>> index 3d221f044183..059d9802e713 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
>>>>> @@ -767,14 +767,17 @@ static int amdgpu_vm_clear_bo(struct
>>>>> amdgpu_device *adev,
>>>>>            addr = 0;
>>>>>         if (ats_entries) {
>>>>> -        uint64_t ats_value;
>>>>> +        uint64_t value = 0, flags;
>>>>>     -        ats_value = AMDGPU_PTE_DEFAULT_ATC;
>>>>> -        if (level != AMDGPU_VM_PTB)
>>>>> -            ats_value |= AMDGPU_PDE_PTE;
>>>>> +        flags = AMDGPU_PTE_DEFAULT_ATC;
>>>>> +        if (level != AMDGPU_VM_PTB) {
>>>>> +            /* Handle leaf PDEs as PTEs */
>>>>> +            flags |= AMDGPU_PDE_PTE;
>>>>> +            amdgpu_gmc_get_vm_pde(adev, level, &value, &flags);
>>>>> +        }
>>>>>                r = vm->update_funcs->update(&params, bo, addr, 0,
>>>>> ats_entries,
>>>>> -                         0, ats_value);
>>>>> +                         value, flags);
>>>>>             if (r)
>>>>>                 return r;
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