Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/gem: Unbind all current vma on changing cache-level

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 22:42, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Avoid dangerous race handling of destroyed vma by unbinding all vma
> instead. Unfortunately, this stops us from trying to be clever and only
> doing the minimal change required, so on first use of scanout we may
> encounter an annoying stall as it transitions to a new cache level.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112413
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c | 124 ++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> index 9aebcf263191..bd846b4fec20 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> @@ -192,126 +192,16 @@ int i915_gem_object_set_cache_level(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>         if (obj->cache_level == cache_level)
>                 return 0;
>
> -       /* Inspect the list of currently bound VMA and unbind any that would
> -        * be invalid given the new cache-level. This is principally to
> -        * catch the issue of the CS prefetch crossing page boundaries and
> -        * reading an invalid PTE on older architectures.
> -        */
> -restart:
> -       list_for_each_entry(vma, &obj->vma.list, obj_link) {
> -               if (!drm_mm_node_allocated(&vma->node))
> -                       continue;
> -
> -               if (i915_vma_is_pinned(vma)) {
> -                       DRM_DEBUG("can not change the cache level of pinned objects\n");
> -                       return -EBUSY;
> -               }
> -
> -               if (!i915_vma_is_closed(vma) &&
> -                   i915_gem_valid_gtt_space(vma, cache_level))
> -                       continue;
> -
> -               ret = i915_vma_unbind(vma);
> -               if (ret)
> -                       return ret;
> -
> -               /* As unbinding may affect other elements in the
> -                * obj->vma_list (due to side-effects from retiring
> -                * an active vma), play safe and restart the iterator.
> -                */
> -               goto restart;
> -       }
> -
> -       /* We can reuse the existing drm_mm nodes but need to change the
> -        * cache-level on the PTE. We could simply unbind them all and
> -        * rebind with the correct cache-level on next use. However since
> -        * we already have a valid slot, dma mapping, pages etc, we may as
> -        * rewrite the PTE in the belief that doing so tramples upon less
> -        * state and so involves less work.
> -        */
> -       if (atomic_read(&obj->bind_count)) {
> -               struct drm_i915_private *i915 = to_i915(obj->base.dev);
> -
> -               /* Before we change the PTE, the GPU must not be accessing it.
> -                * If we wait upon the object, we know that all the bound
> -                * VMA are no longer active.
> -                */
> -               ret = i915_gem_object_wait(obj,
> -                                          I915_WAIT_INTERRUPTIBLE |
> -                                          I915_WAIT_ALL,
> -                                          MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
> -               if (ret)
> -                       return ret;
> -
> -               if (!HAS_LLC(i915) && cache_level != I915_CACHE_NONE) {
> -                       intel_wakeref_t wakeref =
> -                               intel_runtime_pm_get(&i915->runtime_pm);
> -
> -                       /*
> -                        * Access to snoopable pages through the GTT is
> -                        * incoherent and on some machines causes a hard
> -                        * lockup. Relinquish the CPU mmaping to force
> -                        * userspace to refault in the pages and we can
> -                        * then double check if the GTT mapping is still
> -                        * valid for that pointer access.
> -                        */
> -                       ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&i915->ggtt.vm.mutex);
> -                       if (ret) {
> -                               intel_runtime_pm_put(&i915->runtime_pm,
> -                                                    wakeref);
> -                               return ret;
> -                       }
> -
> -                       if (obj->userfault_count)
> -                               __i915_gem_object_release_mmap(obj);
> -
> -                       /*
> -                        * As we no longer need a fence for GTT access,
> -                        * we can relinquish it now (and so prevent having
> -                        * to steal a fence from someone else on the next
> -                        * fence request). Note GPU activity would have
> -                        * dropped the fence as all snoopable access is
> -                        * supposed to be linear.
> -                        */
> -                       for_each_ggtt_vma(vma, obj) {
> -                               ret = i915_vma_revoke_fence(vma);
> -                               if (ret)
> -                                       break;
> -                       }
> -                       mutex_unlock(&i915->ggtt.vm.mutex);
> -                       intel_runtime_pm_put(&i915->runtime_pm, wakeref);
> -                       if (ret)
> -                               return ret;
> -               } else {
> -                       /*
> -                        * We either have incoherent backing store and
> -                        * so no GTT access or the architecture is fully
> -                        * coherent. In such cases, existing GTT mmaps
> -                        * ignore the cache bit in the PTE and we can
> -                        * rewrite it without confusing the GPU or having
> -                        * to force userspace to fault back in its mmaps.
> -                        */
> -               }
> -
> -               list_for_each_entry(vma, &obj->vma.list, obj_link) {
> -                       if (!drm_mm_node_allocated(&vma->node))
> -                               continue;
> -
> -                       /* Wait for an earlier async bind, need to rewrite it */
> -                       ret = i915_vma_sync(vma);
> -                       if (ret)
> -                               return ret;
> -
> -                       ret = i915_vma_bind(vma, cache_level, PIN_UPDATE, NULL);
> -                       if (ret)
> -                               return ret;
> -               }
> -       }
> +       ret = i915_gem_object_unbind(obj, I915_GEM_OBJECT_UNBIND_ACTIVE);
> +       if (ret)
> +               return ret;
>
> -       list_for_each_entry(vma, &obj->vma.list, obj_link) {
> +       spin_lock(&obj->vma.lock);
> +       list_for_each_entry(vma, &obj->vma.list, obj_link)
>                 if (i915_vm_has_cache_coloring(vma->vm))
>                         vma->node.color = cache_level;
> -       }
> +       spin_unlock(&obj->vma.lock);

Do we still need to bother setting node.color; if we unbind the vma,
the color will be set again if we re-bind it? Although we only set the
cache-level below so seems kinda racy either way?

Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>

> +
>         i915_gem_object_set_cache_coherency(obj, cache_level);
>         obj->cache_dirty = true; /* Always invalidate stale cachelines */
>
> --
> 2.24.0
>
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