Allocate only an internal intel_context for the kernel_context, forgoing
a global GEM context for internal use as we only require a separate
address space (for our own protection).
Now having weaned GT from requiring ce->gem_context, we can stop
referencing it entirely. This also means we no longer have to create random
and unnecessary GEM contexts for internal use.
GEM contexts are now entirely for tracking GEM clients, and intel_context
the execution environment on the GPU.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191221160324.1073045-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In order to avoid confusing the HW, we must never submit an empty ring
during lite-restore, that is we should always advance the RING_TAIL
before submitting to stay ahead of the RING_HEAD.
Normally this is prevented by keeping a couple of spare NOPs in the
request->wa_tail so that on resubmission we can advance the tail. This
relies on the request only being resubmitted once, which is the normal
condition as it is seen once for ELSP[1] and then later in ELSP[0]. On
preemption, the requests are unwound and the tail reset back to the
normal end point (as we know the request is incomplete and therefore its
RING_HEAD is even earlier).
However, if this w/a should fail we would try and resubmit the request
with the RING_TAIL already set to the location of this request's wa_tail
potentially causing a GPU hang. We can spot when we do try and
incorrectly resubmit without advancing the RING_TAIL and spare any
embarrassment by forcing the context restore.
In the case of preempt-to-busy, we leave the requests running on the HW
while we unwind. As the ring is still live, we cannot rewind our
rq->tail without forcing a reload so leave it set to rq->wa_tail and
only force a reload if we resubmit after a lite-restore. (Normally, the
forced reload will be a part of the preemption event.)
Fixes: 22b7a426bb ("drm/i915/execlists: Preempt-to-busy")
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/673
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.vger.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191209023215.3519970-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 82c69bf586)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
In order to avoid confusing the HW, we must never submit an empty ring
during lite-restore, that is we should always advance the RING_TAIL
before submitting to stay ahead of the RING_HEAD.
Normally this is prevented by keeping a couple of spare NOPs in the
request->wa_tail so that on resubmission we can advance the tail. This
relies on the request only being resubmitted once, which is the normal
condition as it is seen once for ELSP[1] and then later in ELSP[0]. On
preemption, the requests are unwound and the tail reset back to the
normal end point (as we know the request is incomplete and therefore its
RING_HEAD is even earlier).
However, if this w/a should fail we would try and resubmit the request
with the RING_TAIL already set to the location of this request's wa_tail
potentially causing a GPU hang. We can spot when we do try and
incorrectly resubmit without advancing the RING_TAIL and spare any
embarrassment by forcing the context restore.
In the case of preempt-to-busy, we leave the requests running on the HW
while we unwind. As the ring is still live, we cannot rewind our
rq->tail without forcing a reload so leave it set to rq->wa_tail and
only force a reload if we resubmit after a lite-restore. (Normally, the
forced reload will be a part of the preemption event.)
Fixes: 22b7a426bb ("drm/i915/execlists: Preempt-to-busy")
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/673
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.vger.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191209023215.3519970-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Only along the submission path can we guarantee that the locked request
is indeed from a foreign engine, and so the nesting of engine/rq is
permissible. On the submission tasklet (process_csb()), we may find
ourselves competing with the normal nesting of rq/engine, invalidating
our nesting. As we only use the spinlock for debug purposes, skip the
debug if we cannot acquire the spinlock for safe validation - catching
99% of the bugs is better than causing a hard lockup.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Fixes: c95d31c3df ("drm/i915/execlists: Lock the request while validating it during promotion")
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191203152631.3107653-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The major drawback of commit 7e34f4e4aa ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX
corruption WA") is that it disables RC6 while Skylake (and friends) is
active, and we do not consider the GPU idle until all outstanding
requests have been retired and the engine switched over to the kernel
context. If userspace is idle, this task falls onto our background idle
worker, which only runs roughly once a second, meaning that userspace has
to have been idle for a couple of seconds before we enable RC6 again.
Naturally, this causes us to consume considerably more energy than
before as powersaving is effectively disabled while a display server
(here's looking at you Xorg) is running.
As execlists will get a completion event as each context is completed,
we can use this interrupt to queue a retire worker bound to this engine
to cleanup idle timelines. We will then immediately notice the idle
engine (without userspace intervention or the aid of the background
retire worker) and start parking the GPU. Thus during light workloads,
we will do much more work to idle the GPU faster... Hopefully with
commensurate power saving!
v2: Watch context completions and only look at those local to the engine
when retiring to reduce the amount of excess work we perform.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112315
References: 7e34f4e4aa ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
References: 2248a28384 ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125105858.1718307-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 4f88f8747f)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Since we want to do a lockless read of the current active request, and
that request is written to by process_csb also without serialisation, we
need to instruct gcc to take care in reading the pointer itself.
Otherwise, we have observed execlists_active() to report 0x40.
[ 2400.760381] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479300us : process_csb: rcs0 cs-irq head=3, tail=4
[ 2400.760826] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479303us : process_csb: rcs0 csb[4]: status=0x00000001:0x00000000
[ 2400.761271] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479306us : trace_ports: rcs0: promote { b9c59:2622, b9c55:2624 }
[ 2400.761726] igt/para-4097 0d... 2376479311us : __i915_schedule: rcs0: -2147483648->3, inflight:0000000000000040, rq:ffff888208c1e940
which is impossible!
The answer is that as we keep the existing execlists->active pointing
into the array as we copy over that array, the unserialised read may see
a partial pointer value.
Fixes: df40306902 ("drm/i915/execlists: Lift process_csb() out of the irq-off spinlock")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125094318.1630806-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 331bf90591)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
The major drawback of commit 7e34f4e4aa ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX
corruption WA") is that it disables RC6 while Skylake (and friends) is
active, and we do not consider the GPU idle until all outstanding
requests have been retired and the engine switched over to the kernel
context. If userspace is idle, this task falls onto our background idle
worker, which only runs roughly once a second, meaning that userspace has
to have been idle for a couple of seconds before we enable RC6 again.
Naturally, this causes us to consume considerably more energy than
before as powersaving is effectively disabled while a display server
(here's looking at you Xorg) is running.
As execlists will get a completion event as each context is completed,
we can use this interrupt to queue a retire worker bound to this engine
to cleanup idle timelines. We will then immediately notice the idle
engine (without userspace intervention or the aid of the background
retire worker) and start parking the GPU. Thus during light workloads,
we will do much more work to idle the GPU faster... Hopefully with
commensurate power saving!
v2: Watch context completions and only look at those local to the engine
when retiring to reduce the amount of excess work we perform.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112315
References: 7e34f4e4aa ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
References: 2248a28384 ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125105858.1718307-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Since we want to do a lockless read of the current active request, and
that request is written to by process_csb also without serialisation, we
need to instruct gcc to take care in reading the pointer itself.
Otherwise, we have observed execlists_active() to report 0x40.
[ 2400.760381] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479300us : process_csb: rcs0 cs-irq head=3, tail=4
[ 2400.760826] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479303us : process_csb: rcs0 csb[4]: status=0x00000001:0x00000000
[ 2400.761271] igt/para-4098 1..s. 2376479306us : trace_ports: rcs0: promote { b9c59:2622, b9c55:2624 }
[ 2400.761726] igt/para-4097 0d... 2376479311us : __i915_schedule: rcs0: -2147483648->3, inflight:0000000000000040, rq:ffff888208c1e940
which is impossible!
The answer is that as we keep the existing execlists->active pointing
into the array as we copy over that array, the unserialised read may see
a partial pointer value.
Fixes: df40306902 ("drm/i915/execlists: Lift process_csb() out of the irq-off spinlock")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125094318.1630806-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The gem_ctx_persistence/smoketest was detecting an odd coherency issue
inside the LRC context image; that the address of the ring buffer did
not match our associated struct intel_ring. As we set the address into
the context image when we pin the ring buffer into place before the
context is active, that leaves the question of where did it get
overwritten. Either the HW context save occurred after our pin which
would imply that our idle barriers are broken, or we overwrote the
context image ourselves. It is only in reset_active() where we dabble
inside the context image outside of a serialised path from schedule-out;
but we could equally perform the operation inside schedule-in which is
then fully serialised with the context pin -- and remains serialised by
the engine pulse with kill_context(). (The only downside, aside from
doing more work inside the engine->active.lock, was the plan to merge
all the reset paths into doing their context scrubbing on schedule-out
needs more thought.)
Fixes: d12acee84f ("drm/i915/execlists: Cancel banned contexts on schedule-out")
Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_persistence/smoketest
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191111133205.11590-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 31b61f0ef9)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
The gem_ctx_persistence/smoketest was detecting an odd coherency issue
inside the LRC context image; that the address of the ring buffer did
not match our associated struct intel_ring. As we set the address into
the context image when we pin the ring buffer into place before the
context is active, that leaves the question of where did it get
overwritten. Either the HW context save occurred after our pin which
would imply that our idle barriers are broken, or we overwrote the
context image ourselves. It is only in reset_active() where we dabble
inside the context image outside of a serialised path from schedule-out;
but we could equally perform the operation inside schedule-in which is
then fully serialised with the context pin -- and remains serialised by
the engine pulse with kill_context(). (The only downside, aside from
doing more work inside the engine->active.lock, was the plan to merge
all the reset paths into doing their context scrubbing on schedule-out
needs more thought.)
Fixes: d12acee84f ("drm/i915/execlists: Cancel banned contexts on schedule-out")
Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_persistence/smoketest
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191111133205.11590-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Execlists uses a scheduling quantum (a timeslice) to alternate execution
between ready-to-run contexts of equal priority. This ensures that all
users (though only if they of equal importance) have the opportunity to
run and prevents livelocks where contexts may have implicit ordering due
to userspace semaphores. However, not all workloads necessarily benefit
from timeslicing and in the extreme some sysadmin may want to disable or
reduce the timeslicing granularity.
The timeslicing mechanism can be compiled out^W^W disabled (but should
DCE!) with
./scripts/config --set-val DRM_I915_TIMESLICE_DURATION 0
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191029091632.26281-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The request's timeline will only contain requests from this context, in
order of execution. Therefore, we can simply look back along this
timeline to find the currently executing request.
If we do find that the current context has completed its last request,
that does not imply that all requests are completed in the context, so
only advance the ring->head up to the end of the known completions!
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191028124125.25176-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
