Am 24.05.2018 um 11:24 schrieb Qiang Yu:
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Christian König
<christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[SNIP]
Because of this we have a separate tracking in amdgpu so that we not only
know who is using which BO, who is using which VM.
amdgpu's VM implementation seems too complicated for this simple mali GPU,
but I may investigate it more to see if I can make it better.
Yeah, completely agree.
The VM handling in amdgpu is really complicated because we had to tune
it for multiple use cases. E.g. partial resident textures, delayed
updates etc etc....
But you should at least be able to take the lessons learned we had with
that VM code and not make the same mistakes again.
We intentionally removed the preclose callback to prevent certain use cases,
bringing it back to allow your use case looks rather fishy to me.
Seems other drivers do either the deffer or wait way to adopt the drop
of preclose. I can do the same as you suggested, but just not understand why
we make our life harder. Can I know what's the case you want to prevent?
I think what matters most for your case is the issue is that drivers
should handle closing a BO because userspace said so in the same way it
handles closing a BO because of a process termination, but see below.
BTW: What exactly is the issue with using the postclose callback?
The issue is, when Ctrl+C to terminate an application, if no wait or deffer
unmap, buffer just gets unmapped before task is done, so kernel driver
gets MMU fault and HW reset to recover the GPU.
Yeah, that sounds like exactly one of the reasons we had the callback in
the first place and worked on to removing it.
See the intention is to have reliable handling, e.g. use the same code
path for closing a BO because of an IOCTL and closing a BO because of
process termination.
In other words what happens when userspace closes a BO while the GPU is
still using it? Would you then run into a GPU reset as well?
I mean it's your driver stack, so I'm not against it as long as you can
live with it. But it's exactly the thing we wanted to avoid here.
Regards,
Christian.
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