Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm/i915: Mark i915_request.timeline as a volatile, rcu pointer

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On 19/09/2019 14:26, Chris Wilson wrote:
Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-09-19 14:02:19)

On 19/09/2019 12:19, Chris Wilson wrote:
+static struct intel_timeline *get_timeline(struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+     struct intel_timeline *tl;
+
+     /*
+      * Even though we are holding the engine->active.lock here, there
+      * is no control over the submission queue per-se and we are
+      * inspecting the active state at a random point in time, with an
+      * unknown queue. Play safe and make sure the timeline remains valid.
+      * (Only being used for pretty printing, one extra kref shouldn't
+      * cause a camel stampede!)
+      */
+     rcu_read_lock();
+     tl = rcu_dereference(rq->timeline);
+     if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&tl->kref))
+             tl = NULL;
+     rcu_read_unlock();

How can it be NULL under the active lock? Isn't that the same assertion
from i915_timeline_get_active.

Not NULL, but retired. The difference is that during submission we know
that this request's context/timeline must be currently pinned until
a subsequent request (containing the idle-barriers) is submitted. The
danger I worry about here is that subsequent idle request may be already
submitted and since the queued requests may *already* have been retired,
the timeline may be unpinned and indeed dropped it's last reference.

But here it is under the engine->active.lock with interrupts disabled and the requests are fetched from execlists ports. Timeline is not guaranteed to be kept alive under these conditions? intel_context reference will be held until process_csb schedules it out so I'd expect timeline and hwsp to be there. But I could be lost in the new scheme of things.

Regards,

Tvrtko

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
index 9d1ea26c7a2d..4ce1e25433d2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
@@ -14,22 +14,28 @@
static int request_sync(struct i915_request *rq)
   {
+     struct intel_timeline *tl = i915_request_timeline(rq);
       long timeout;
       int err = 0;
+ intel_timeline_get(tl);
       i915_request_get(rq);
- i915_request_add(rq);
+     /* Opencode i915_request_add() so we can keep the timeline locked. */
+     __i915_request_commit(rq);
+     __i915_request_queue(rq, NULL);

Looking at i915_request_add here we also have tasklet kicking but I
guess for selftests it's not important.

Yup, and immediately before a wait, that tasklet should be scheduled
naturally in the near future.
-Chris

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