Re: [PATCH v5 16/20] drm/msm: Don't break exclusive fence ordering

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:47 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's only one exclusive slot, and we must not break the ordering.
>
> Adding a new exclusive fence drops all previous fences from the
> dma_resv. To avoid violating the signalling order we err on the side of
> over-synchronizing by waiting for the existing fences, even if
> userspace asked us to ignore them.
>
> A better fix would be to us a dma_fence_chain or _array like e.g.
> amdgpu now uses, but
> - msm has a synchronous dma_fence_wait for anything from another
>   context, so doesn't seem to care much,
> - and it probably makes sense to lift this into dma-resv.c code as a
>   proper concept, so that drivers don't have to hack up their own
>   solution each on their own.
>
> v2: Improve commit message per Lucas' suggestion.
>
> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: freedreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

a-b

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> index fb5a2eab27a2..66633dfd58a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> @@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ static int submit_fence_sync(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, bool no_implicit)
>                                 return ret;
>                 }
>
> -               if (no_implicit)
> +               /* exclusive fences must be ordered */
> +               if (no_implicit && !write)
>                         continue;
>
>                 ret = drm_sched_job_add_implicit_dependencies(&submit->base,
> --
> 2.32.0
>



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