In the near future, we will utilize the busy-stats on each engine to
approximate the C0 cycles of each, and use that as an input to a manual
RPS mechanism. That entails having busy-stats always enabled and so we
can remove the enable/disable routines and simplify the pmu setup. As a
consequence of always having the stats enabled, we can also show the
current active time via sysfs/engine/xcs/active_time_ns.
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/20200429205446.3259-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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
As the engine->kernel_context is used within the engine-pm barrier, we
have to be careful when emitting requests outside of the barrier, as the
strict timeline locking rules do not apply. Instead, we must ensure the
engine_park() cannot be entered as we build the request, which is
simplest by taking an explicit engine-pm wakeref around the request
construction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125105858.1718307-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
As drm now exports a method to create an anonymous struct file around a
drm_device for internal use, make use of it to avoid our horrible hacks.
Danial suggested that the mock_file_put() wrapper was suitable for
drm-core, along with the mock_drm_getfile() [and that the vestigal
mock_drm_file() in this patch should perhaps be the drm interface
itself]. However, the eventual goal is to remove the mock_drm_file() and
use the struct file and fput() directly, in this patch we take a simple
transition in that direction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191107180601.30815-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Vanshidhar Konda asked for the simplest test "to verify that the kernel
can submit and hardware can execute batch buffers on all the command
streamers in parallel." We have a number of tests in userspace that
submit load to each engine and verify that it is present, but strictly
we have no selftest to prove that the kernel can _simultaneously_
execute on all known engines. (We have tests to demonstrate that we can
submit to HW in parallel, but we don't insist that they execute in
parallel.)
v2: Improve the igt_spinner support for older gen.
Suggested-by: Vanshidhar Konda <vanshidhar.r.konda@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Vanshidhar Konda <vanshidhar.r.konda@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vanshidhar Konda <vanshidhar.r.konda@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191101101528.10553-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Replace the struct_mutex requirement for pinning the i915_vma with the
local vm->mutex instead. Note that the vm->mutex is tainted by the
shrinker (we require unbinding from inside fs-reclaim) and so we cannot
allocate while holding that mutex. Instead we have to preallocate
workers to do allocate and apply the PTE updates after we have we
reserved their slot in the drm_mm (using fences to order the PTE writes
with the GPU work and with later unbind).
In adding the asynchronous vma binding, one subtle requirement is to
avoid coupling the binding fence into the backing object->resv. That is
the asynchronous binding only applies to the vma timeline itself and not
to the pages as that is a more global timeline (the binding of one vma
does not need to be ordered with another vma, nor does the implicit GEM
fencing depend on a vma, only on writes to the backing store). Keeping
the vma binding distinct from the backing store timelines is verified by
a number of async gem_exec_fence and gem_exec_schedule tests. The way we
do this is quite simple, we keep the fence for the vma binding separate
and only wait on it as required, and never add it to the obj->resv
itself.
Another consequence in reducing the locking around the vma is the
destruction of the vma is no longer globally serialised by struct_mutex.
A natural solution would be to add a kref to i915_vma, but that requires
decoupling the reference cycles, possibly by introducing a new
i915_mm_pages object that is own by both obj->mm and vma->pages.
However, we have not taken that route due to the overshadowing lmem/ttm
discussions, and instead play a series of complicated games with
trylocks to (hopefully) ensure that only one destruction path is called!
v2: Add some commentary, and some helpers to reduce patch churn.
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/20191004134015.13204-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
When using a global seqno, we required a precise stop-the-workd event to
handle preemption and unwind the global seqno counter. To accomplish
this, we would preempt to a special out-of-band context and wait for the
machine to report that it was idle. Given an idle machine, we could very
precisely see which requests had completed and which we needed to feed
back into the run queue.
However, now that we have scrapped the global seqno, we no longer need
to precisely unwind the global counter and only track requests by their
per-context seqno. This allows us to loosely unwind inflight requests
while scheduling a preemption, with the enormous caveat that the
requests we put back on the run queue are still _inflight_ (until the
preemption request is complete). This makes request tracking much more
messy, as at any point then we can see a completed request that we
believe is not currently scheduled for execution. We also have to be
careful not to rewind RING_TAIL past RING_HEAD on preempting to the
running context, and for this we use a semaphore to prevent completion
of the request before continuing.
To accomplish this feat, we change how we track requests scheduled to
the HW. Instead of appending our requests onto a single list as we
submit, we track each submission to ELSP as its own block. Then upon
receiving the CS preemption event, we promote the pending block to the
inflight block (discarding what was previously being tracked). As normal
CS completion events arrive, we then remove stale entries from the
inflight tracker.
v2: Be a tinge paranoid and ensure we flush the write into the HWS page
for the GPU semaphore to pick in a timely fashion.
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/20190620142052.19311-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Start acquiring the logical intel_context and using that as our primary
means for request allocation. This is the initial step to allow us to
avoid requiring struct_mutex for request allocation along the
perma-pinned kernel context, but it also provides a foundation for
breaking up the complex request allocation to handle different scenarios
inside execbuf.
For the purpose of emitting a request from inside retirement (see the
next patch for engine power management), we also need to lift control
over the timeline mutex to the caller.
v2: Note that the request carries the active reference upon construction.
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/20190424200717.1686-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
When we return pages to the system, we ensure that they are marked as
being in the CPU domain since any external access is uncontrolled and we
must assume the worst. This means that we need to always flush the pages
on acquisition if we need to use them on the GPU, and from the beginning
have used set-domain. Set-domain is overkill for the purpose as it is a
general synchronisation barrier, but our intent is to only flush the
pages being swapped in. If we move that flush into the pages acquisition
phase, we know then that when we have obj->mm.pages, they are coherent
with the GPU and need only maintain that status without resorting to
heavy handed use of set-domain.
The principle knock-on effect for userspace is through mmap-gtt
pagefaulting. Our uAPI has always implied that the GTT mmap was async
(especially as when any pagefault occurs is unpredicatable to userspace)
and so userspace had to apply explicit domain control itself
(set-domain). However, swapping is transparent to the kernel, and so on
first fault we need to acquire the pages and make them coherent for
access through the GTT. Our use of set-domain here leaks into the uABI
that the first pagefault was synchronous. This is unintentional and
baring a few igt should be unoticed, nevertheless we bump the uABI
version for mmap-gtt to reflect the change in behaviour.
Another implication of the change is that gem_create() is presumed to
create an object that is coherent with the CPU and is in the CPU write
domain, so a set-domain(CPU) following a gem_create() would be a minor
operation that merely checked whether we could allocate all pages for
the object. On applying this change, a set-domain(CPU) causes a clflush
as we acquire the pages. This will have a small impact on mesa as we move
the clflush here on !llc from execbuf time to create, but that should
have minimal performance impact as the same clflush exists but is now
done early and because of the clflush issue, userspace recycles bo and
so should resist allocating fresh objects.
Internally, the presumption that objects are created in the CPU
write-domain and remain so through writes to obj->mm.mapping is more
prevalent than I expected; but easy enough to catch and apply a manual
flush.
For the future, we should push the page flush from the central
set_pages() into the callers so that we can more finely control when it
is applied, but for now doing it one location is easier to validate, at
the cost of sometimes flushing when there is no need.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Antonio Argenziano <antonio.argenziano@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190321161908.8007-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the next patch, we are introducing a broad virtual engine to encompass
multiple physical engines, losing the 1:1 nature of BIT(engine->id). To
reflect the broader set of engines implied by the virtual instance, lets
store the full bitmask.
v2: Use intel_engine_mask_t (s/ring_mask/engine_mask/)
v3: Tvrtko voted for moah churn so teach everyone to not mention ring
and use $class$instance throughout.
v4: Comment upon the disparity in bspec for using VCS1,VCS2 in gen8 and
VCS[0-4] in later gen. We opt to keep the code consistent and use
0-index naming throughout.
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/20190305180332.30900-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
A simple mutex used for guarding the flow of requests in and out of the
timeline. In the short-term, it will be used only to guard the addition
of requests into the timeline, taken on alloc and released on commit so
that only one caller can construct a request into the timeline
(important as the seqno and ring pointers must be serialised). This will
be used by observers to ensure that the seqno/hwsp is stable. Later,
when we have reduced retiring to only operate on a single timeline at a
time, we can then use the mutex as the sole guard required for retiring.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301110547.14758-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
At a few points in our uABI, we check to see if the driver is wedged and
report -EIO back to the user in that case. However, as we perform the
check and reset asynchronously (where once before they were both
serialised by the struct_mutex), we may instead see the temporary wedging
used to cancel inflight rendering to avoid a deadlock during reset
(caused by either us timing out in our reset handler,
i915_wedge_on_timeout or with malice aforethought in intel_reset_prepare
for a stuck modeset). If we suspect this is the case, that is we see a
wedged driver *and* reset in progress, then wait until the reset is
resolved before reporting upon the wedged status.
v2: might_sleep() (Mika)
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109580
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190220145637.23503-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
