Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix secure dispatch with full ppgtt

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:35:42PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:22:19PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > Based upon a hunk from a patch from Chris Wilson, but augmented to:
> > > > - Process the batch in the full ppgtt vm so that self-relocations
> > > >   match again with userspace's expectations..
> > > > - Add a comment why plain pin for the global gtt binding is safe at
> > > >   that point.
> > > > 
> > > > v2: Drop local bind_vm variable (Chris).
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > /me jaw drops
> > > 
> > > Oh nice, yes you are right that does fix the issue with the relocations
> > > being in one address space whilst the exec needs to be done from gGTT.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Actually it's not that simple - with this patch we don't add the ggtt vma
> > for the batch to the active list, which we probably should. So needs to be
> > revised a bit more I think ...
> 
> The only thing that comes unstuck is eviction, and even there that we
> keep them all in order of last GTT access, should prevent most random
> stalls. As the batch object itself is still being tracked for gpu
> busyness, it is only a level of finese required rather than being
> outright broken wrt to serialisation.
> 
> It is still a massive leap forward in our understanding of the
> potential solution, and not one step back.

Yeah, you're right. Added a FIXME comment as discussed on irc and pulled
it in. I guess in the end we should still smash the ggtt batch vma onto
the eb list somehow, to make sure that it goes through all the proper
move_to_active processing _before_ we call add_request.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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