On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:02:52 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In practice, I don't expect things to deadlock, because the VM resv is
> not supposed to be taken outside the VM context and the locking order
> is always the same (VM lock first, and then each shared BO
> taken/released independently), but I'm not super thrilled by this
> nested lock, and I'm wondering if we shouldn't have a pass collecting
> locks in a drm_exec context first, and then have
> the operations executed. IOW, something like that:
>
> drm_exec_init(exec, DRM_EXEC_IGNORE_DUPLICATES)
> drm_exec_until_all_locked(exec) {
> // Dummy GEM is the dummy GEM object I use to make the VM
> // participate in the locking without having to teach
> // drm_exec how to deal with raw dma_resv objects.
> ret = drm_exec_lock_obj(exec, vm->dummy_gem);
> drm_exec_retry_on_contention(exec);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> // Could take the form of drm_gpuva_sm_[un]map_acquire_locks()
> // helpers
Nevermind, I implemented a driver specific acquire_op_locks(), and it's
fairly simple with the gpuva iter (we just have to iterate over all VAs
covered by the operation range and call drm_exec_lock_obj() on the GEM
attached to these VAs), so it's probably not worth providing a generic
helper for that.
