Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] drm/panfrost: Rework page table flushing and runtime PM interaction

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:16 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 23/08/2019 16:57, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:44 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23/08/2019 16:05, Steven Price wrote:
> >>> On 23/08/2019 12:11, Robin Murphy wrote:
> >>>> On 23/08/2019 03:12, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>>>> There is no point in resuming the h/w just to do flush operations and
> >>>>> doing so takes several locks which cause lockdep issues with the
> >>>>> shrinker.
> >>>>> Rework the flush operations to only happen when the h/w is already
> >>>>> awake.
> >>>>> This avoids taking any locks associated with resuming.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> v2: new patch
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c | 41 ++++++++++++-------------
> >>>>>    1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> >>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> >>>>> index 842bdd7cf6be..ccf671a9c3fb 100644
> >>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> >>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c
> >>>>> @@ -220,6 +220,23 @@ static size_t get_pgsize(u64 addr, size_t size)
> >>>>>        return SZ_2M;
> >>>>>    }
> >>>>> +void panfrost_mmu_flush_range(struct panfrost_device *pfdev,
> >>>>> +                  struct panfrost_mmu *mmu,
> >>>>> +                  u64 iova, size_t size)
> >>>>> +{
> >>>>> +    if (mmu->as < 0)
> >>>>> +        return;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +    /* Flush the PTs only if we're already awake */
> >>>>> +    if (!pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(pfdev->dev))
> >>>>> +        return;
> >>>>
> >>>> Is the MMU guaranteed to be reset on resume such that the TLBs will
> >>>> always come up clean? Otherwise there are potentially corners where
> >>>> stale entries that we skip here might hang around if the hardware lies
> >>>> about powering things down.
> >>>
> >>> Assuming runtime PM has actually committed to the power off, then on
> >>> power on panfrost_device_resume() will be called which performs a reset
> >>> of the GPU which will clear the L2/TLBs so there shouldn't be any
> >>> problem there.
> >>
> >> OK, if panfrost_gpu_soft_reset() is sufficient to guarantee clean TLBs
> >> then this looks equivalent to what we did for arm-smmu, so I've no
> >> complaints in that regard.
> >>
> >> However on second look I've now noticed the panfrost_mmu_flush_range()
> >> calls being moved outside of mmu->lock protection. Forgive me if there's
> >> basic DRM knowledge I'm missing here, but is there any possibility for
> >> multiple threads to create/import/free objects simultaneously on the
> >> same FD such that two mmu_hw_do_operation() calls could race and
> >> interfere with each other in terms of the
> >> AS_LOCKADDR/AS_COMMAND/AS_STATUS dance?
> >
> > Yes, we could have multiple threads. Not really any good reason it's
> > moved out of the mmu->lock other than just to avoid any nesting
> > (though that seemed fine in testing). The newly added as_lock will
> > serialize mmu_hw_do_operation(). So the mmu->lock is just serializing
> > page table writes.
>
> Urgh, sorry, once again I'd stopped looking at -next and was
> cross-referencing my current rc3-based working tree :(
>
> In that case, you may even be able to remove mmu->lock entirely, since
> io-pgtable-arm doesn't need external locking itself. And for this patch,

I was wondering about that, but hadn't gotten around to investigating.

>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
>
> Cheers,
> Robin.
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