The GEM object is grossly overweight for the practicality of tracking
large numbers of individual pages, yet it is currently our only
abstraction for tracking DMA allocations. Since those allocations need
to be reserved upfront before an operation, and that we need to break
away from simple system memory, we need to ditch using plain struct page
wrappers.
In the process, we drop the WC mapping as we ended up clflushing
everything anyway due to various issues across a wider range of
platforms. Though in a future step, we need to drop the kmap_atomic
approach which suggests we need to pre-map all the pages and keep them
mapped.
v2: Verify our large scratch page is suitably DMA aligned; and manually
clear the scratch since we are allocating plain struct pages full of
prior content.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200729164219.5737-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
We need to make the DMA allocations used for page directories to be
performed up front so that we can include those allocations in our
memory reservation pass. The downside is that we have to assume the
worst case, even before we know the final layout, and always allocate
enough page directories for this object, even when there will be overlap.
This unfortunately can be quite expensive, especially as we have to
clear/reset the page directories and DMA pages, but it should only be
required during early phases of a workload when new objects are being
discovered, or after memory/eviction pressure when we need to rebind.
Once we reach steady state, the objects should not be moved and we no
longer need to preallocating the pages tables.
It should be noted that the lifetime for the page directories DMA is
more or less decoupled from individual fences as they will be shared
across objects across timelines.
v2: Only allocate enough PD space for the PTE we may use, we do not need
to allocate PD that will be left as scratch.
v3: Store the shift unto the first PD level to encapsulate the different
PTE counts for gen6/gen8.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200729164219.5737-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Some tests (e.g. igt_vma_pin1) presume that we have a completely clean
GGTT so that it can probe boundaries without fear that something is
already allocated there. However, the mock device is starting to get
complicated and following similar rules to the live device, i.e. we
can't guarantee that i915->ggtt remains clean, so create a temporary
address_space equivalent to the mock ggtt for the purpose.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190121222117.23305-7-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
So far we have been relying on vm->file pointer being NULL to declare
something GGTT.
This has the unfortunate consequence that the default kernel context is
also declared GGTT and interferes with the following patch which wants to
instantiate VMA's and execute requests against the kernel context.
Change the is_ggtt test to use an explicit flag in struct address_space to
solve this issue.
Note that the bit used is free since there is an alignment hole in the
struct.
v2:
* Mark mock ggtt.
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180831143643.12366-1-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com
Currently, the wc-stash used for providing flushed WC pages ready for
constructing the page directories is assumed to be protected by the
struct_mutex. However, we want to remove this global lock and so must
install a replacement global lock for accessing the global wc-stash (the
per-vm stash continues to be guarded by the vm).
We need to push ahead on this patch due to an oversight in hastily
removing the struct_mutex guard around the igt_ppgtt_alloc selftest. No
matter, it will prove very useful (i.e. will be required) in the near
future.
v2: Restore the onstack stash so that we can drop the vm->mutex in
future across the allocation.
v3: Restore the lost pagevec_init of the onstack allocation, and repaint
function names.
v4: Reorder init so that we don't try and use i915_address_space before
it is ininitialised.
Fixes: 1f6f00238a ("drm/i915/selftests: Drop struct_mutex around lowlevel pggtt allocation")
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/20180704185518.4193-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the future, we want to move a request between engines. To achieve
this, we first realise that we have two timelines in effect here. The
first runs through the GTT is required for ordering vma access, which is
tracked currently by engine. The second is implied by sequential
execution of commands inside the ringbuffer. This timeline is one that
maps to userspace's expectations when submitting requests (i.e. given the
same context, batch A is executed before batch B). As the rings's
timelines map to userspace and the GTT timeline an implementation
detail, move the timeline from the GTT into the ring itself (per-context
in logical-ring-contexts/execlists, or a global per-engine timeline for
the shared ringbuffers in legacy submission.
The two timelines are still assumed to be equivalent at the moment (no
migrating requests between engines yet) and so we can simply move from
one to the other without adding extra ordering.
v2: Reinforce that one isn't allowed to mix the engine execution
timeline with the client timeline from userspace (on the ring).
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/20180502163839.3248-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
