Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/ttm: Add a private member to the struct ttm_resource

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Am 10.09.21 um 17:30 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On Fri, 2021-09-10 at 16:40 +0200, Christian König wrote:

Am 10.09.21 um 15:15 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
Both the provider (resource manager) and the consumer (the TTM
driver)
want to subclass struct ttm_resource. Since this is left for the
resource
manager, we need to provide a private pointer for the TTM driver.

Provide a struct ttm_resource_private for the driver to subclass
for
data with the same lifetime as the struct ttm_resource: In the i915
case
it will, for example, be an sg-table and radix tree into the LMEM
/VRAM pages that currently are awkwardly attached to the GEM
object.

Provide an ops structure for associated ops (Which is only
destroy() ATM)
It might seem pointless to provide a separate ops structure, but
Linus
has previously made it clear that that's the norm.

After careful audit one could perhaps also on a per-driver basis
replace the delete_mem_notify() TTM driver callback with the above
destroy function.
Well this is a really big NAK to this approach.

If you need to attach some additional information to the resource
then
implement your own resource manager like everybody else does.
Well this was the long discussion we had back then when the resource
mangagers started to derive from struct resource and I was under the
impression that we had come to an agreement about the different use-
cases here, and this was my main concern.

Ok, then we somehow didn't understood each other.

I mean, it's a pretty big layer violation to do that for this use-case.

Well exactly that's the point. TTM should not have a layer design in the first place.

Devices, BOs, resources etc.. are base classes which should implement a base functionality which is then extended by the drivers to implement the driver specific functionality.

That is a component based approach, and not layered at all.

The TTM resource manager doesn't want to know about this data at all,
it's private to the ttm resource user layer and the resource manager
works perfectly well without it. (I assume the other drivers that
implement their own resource managers need the data that the
subclassing provides?)

Yes, that's exactly why we have the subclassing.

The fundamental problem here is that there are two layers wanting to
subclass struct ttm_resource. That means one layer gets to do that, the
second gets to use a private pointer, (which in turn can provide yet
another private pointer to a potential third layer). With your
suggestion, the second layer instead is forced to subclass each
subclassed instance it uses from  the first layer provides?

Well completely drop the layer approach/thinking here.

The resource is an object with a base class. The base class implements the interface TTM needs to handle the object, e.g. create/destroy/debug etc...

Then we need to subclass this object because without any additional information the object is pretty pointless.

One possibility for this is to use the range manager to implement something drm_mm based. BTW: We should probably rename that to something like ttm_res_drm_mm or similar.

What we should avoid is to abuse TTM resource interfaces in the driver, e.g. what i915 is currently doing. This is a TTM->resource mgr interface and should not be used by drivers at all.

Ofc we can do that, but it does indeed feel pretty awkward.

In any case, if you still think that's the approach we should go for,
I'd need to add init() and fini() members to the ttm_range_manager_func
struct to allow subclassing without having to unnecessarily copy the
full code?

Yes, exporting the ttm_range_manager functions as needed is one thing I wanted to do for the amdgpu_gtt_mgr.c code as well.

Just don't extend the function table but rather directly export the necessary functions.

Regards,
Christian.


Thanks,
Thomas










Regards,
Christian.

Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: König Christian <Christian.Koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c | 10 +++++++---
   include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h     | 28
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c
index 2431717376e7..973e7c50bfed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c
@@ -57,13 +57,17 @@ int ttm_resource_alloc(struct ttm_buffer_object
*bo,
   void ttm_resource_free(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct
ttm_resource **res)
   {
         struct ttm_resource_manager *man;
+       struct ttm_resource *resource = *res;
-       if (!*res)
+       if (!resource)
                 return;
-       man = ttm_manager_type(bo->bdev, (*res)->mem_type);
-       man->func->free(man, *res);
         *res = NULL;
+       if (resource->priv)
+               resource->priv->ops.destroy(resource->priv);
+
+       man = ttm_manager_type(bo->bdev, resource->mem_type);
+       man->func->free(man, resource);
   }
   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_resource_free);
diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h
b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h
index 140b6b9a8bbe..5a22c9a29c05 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct dma_buf_map;
   struct io_mapping;
   struct sg_table;
   struct scatterlist;
+struct ttm_resource_private;
  struct ttm_resource_manager_func {
         /**
@@ -153,6 +154,32 @@ struct ttm_bus_placement {
         enum ttm_caching        caching;
   };
+/**
+ * struct ttm_resource_private_ops - Operations for a struct
+ * ttm_resource_private
+ *
+ * Not much benefit to keep this as a separate struct with only a
single member,
+ * but keeping a separate ops struct is the norm.
+ */
+struct ttm_resource_private_ops {
+       /**
+        * destroy() - Callback to destroy the private data
+        * @priv - The private data to destroy
+        */
+       void (*destroy) (struct ttm_resource_private *priv);
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct ttm_resource_private - TTM driver private data
+ * @ops: Pointer to struct ttm_resource_private_ops with
associated operations
+ *
+ * Intended to be subclassed to hold, for example cached data
sharing the
+ * lifetime with a struct ttm_resource.
+ */
+struct ttm_resource_private {
+       const struct ttm_resource_private_ops ops;
+};
+
   /**
    * struct ttm_resource
    *
@@ -171,6 +198,7 @@ struct ttm_resource {
         uint32_t mem_type;
         uint32_t placement;
         struct ttm_bus_placement bus;
+       struct ttm_resource_private *priv;
   };
  /**





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