Re: [RFC 3/5] drm/i915: Infrastructure for supporting different GGTT views per object

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On 11/03/2014 03:58 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 04:39:36PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>

Things like reliable GGTT mappings and mirrored 3d display will need to be
to map the same object twice into the GGTT.

Add a ggtt_view field per VMA and select the page view based on the type
of the view.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

lgtm overall, some comments for polish in the crucial parts below.

@@ -2189,3 +2191,21 @@ i915_gem_obj_lookup_or_create_vma(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,

  	return vma;
  }
+
+void i915_vma_bind(struct i915_vma *vma, enum i915_cache_level cache_level,
+			u32 flags)
+{
+	struct sg_table *pages;
+
+	if (vma->ggtt_view.get_pages)
+		pages = vma->ggtt_view.get_pages(&vma->ggtt_view, vma->obj);
+	else
+		pages = vma->obj->pages;
+
+	if (pages && !IS_ERR(pages)) {
+		vma->bind_vma(vma, pages, cache_level, flags);
+
+		if (vma->ggtt_view.put_pages)
+			vma->ggtt_view.put_pages(&vma->ggtt_view);
+	}

tbh this looks a bit like overboarding generalism to me ;-) Imo
- drop the ->put_pages callback and just free the sg table if you have
   one.
- drop teh ->get_pages callbacks and replace it with a new
   i915_vma_shuffle_pages or similar you'll call for non-standard ggtt
   views. Two reasons: shuffle is a more accurate name than get since this
   version doesn't grab it's own page references any more, and with
   currently just one internal user for this a vtable is serious overkill.

I actually thought I will need semi-persistent view for this in the future patch which get_pages()/put_pages() caters for.

More precisely it would be for holding onto created pages during view creation across the i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object and i915_vma_bind in i915_gem_object_bind_to_vm.

Also, ->put_pages looks much neater to me from i915_gem_vma_destroy rather than leaking the knowledge of internal implementation. That is of course if you will allow the above justification for making the alternative view at least semi-persistent.

As additional bonus it has the same semantics to GEM get/put_pages.

+}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
index 66bc44b..cbaddda 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
@@ -109,6 +109,23 @@ typedef gen8_gtt_pte_t gen8_ppgtt_pde_t;
  #define GEN8_PPAT_ELLC_OVERRIDE		(0<<2)
  #define GEN8_PPAT(i, x)			((uint64_t) (x) << ((i) * 8))

+enum i915_ggtt_view_type {
+	I915_GGTT_VIEW_NORMAL = 0,
+};
+
+struct i915_ggtt_view {
+	enum i915_ggtt_view_type type;
+	unsigned int vma_id;

Imo vma_id and ggtt_view_type are fairly redundant. If you _really_ want
to make this super-generic (i.e. for ppgtt) just call it gtt_view instead
fo ggtt_view. But I wouldn't bother.

So you suggest to imply VMA id to be equal to GGTT view type and VMA_ID_DEFAULT to be fixed to I915_GGTT_VIEW_NORMAL? Is it not a logistics/maintenance problem to sync the two then?

Removing vma_id also removes the int, which I'd ask you to replace with an
explicit enum anyway ;-)

Yes I left that for later. I mean, when at stage to be talking about such detail it is a happy place.

+	struct sg_table *pages;

This seems unused - leftover from a previous patch which kept the sgtable
around?

Yes, survived refactoring somehow, shouldn't be here.

Regards,

Tvrtko
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