Am 22.02.21 um 13:43 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> USB-based drivers cannot use DMA, so the importing of dma-buf attachments
> currently fails for udl and gm12u320. This breaks joining/mirroring of
> displays.
>
> The fix is now a little series. To solve the issue on the importer
> side (i.e., the affected USB-based driver), patch 1 introduces a new
> PRIME callback, struct drm_driver.gem_prime_create_object, which creates
> an object and gives more control to the importing driver. Specifically,
> udl and gm12u320 can now avoid the creation of a scatter/gather table
> for the imported pages. Patch 1 is self-contained in the sense that it
> can be backported into older kernels.
Mhm, that sounds like a little overkill to me.
Drivers can already import the DMA-bufs all by them selves without the
help of the DRM functions. See amdgpu for an example.
Daniel also already noted to me that he sees the DRM helper as a bit
questionable middle layer.
Have you thought about doing that instead?
Christian.
>
> Patches 2 and 3 update SHMEM and CMA helpers to use the new callback.
> Effectively this moves the sg table setup from the PRIME helpers into
> the memory managers. SHMEM now supports devices without DMA support,
> so custom code can be removed from udl and g12u320.
>
> Tested by joining/mirroring displays of udl and radeon under Gnome/X11.
>
> v2:
> * move fix to importer side (Christian, Daniel)
> * update SHMEM and CMA helpers for new PRIME callbacks
>
> Thomas Zimmermann (3):
> drm: Support importing dmabufs into drivers without DMA
> drm/shmem-helper: Implement struct drm_driver.gem_prime_create_object
> drm/cma-helper: Implement struct drm_driver.gem_prime_create_object
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.c | 62 ++++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 38 ++++++++++-----
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 43 +++++++++++------
> drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c | 6 +--
> drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h | 4 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c | 8 ++--
> drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_bo.c | 6 +--
> drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_drv.h | 5 +-
> include/drm/drm_drv.h | 12 +++++
> include/drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h | 12 ++---
> include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h | 6 +--
> 14 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.1
>
We have too many people abusing the struct page they can get at but
really shouldn't in importers. Aside from that the backing page might
simply not exist (for dynamic p2p mappings) looking at it and using it
e.g. for mmap can also wreak the page handling of the exporter
completely. Importers really must go through the proper interface like
dma_buf_mmap for everything.
Just an RFC to see whether this idea has some stickiness. default y
for now to make sure intel-gfx-ci picks it up too.
I'm semi-tempted to enforce this for dynamic importers since those
really have no excuse at all to break the rules.
Unfortuantely we can't store the right pointers somewhere safe to make
sure we oops on something recognizable, so best is to just wrangle
them a bit by flipping all the bits. At least on x86 kernel addresses
have all their high bits sets and the struct page array is fairly low
in the kernel mapping, so flipping all the bits gives us a very high
pointer in userspace and hence excellent chances for an invalid
dereference.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter(a)intel.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
Cc: David Stevens <stevensd(a)chromium.org>
Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org
---
drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig | 8 +++++++
drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
index 4f8224a6ac95..cddb549e5e59 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ config DMABUF_MOVE_NOTIFY
This is marked experimental because we don't yet have a consistent
execution context and memory management between drivers.
+config DMABUF_DEBUG
+ bool "DMA-BUF debug checks"
+ default y
+ help
+ This option enables additional checks for DMA-BUF importers and
+ exporters. Specifically it validates that importers do not peek at the
+ underlying struct page when they import a buffer.
+
config DMABUF_SELFTESTS
tristate "Selftests for the dma-buf interfaces"
default n
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
index 1c9bd51db110..6e4725f7dfde 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
@@ -666,6 +666,30 @@ void dma_buf_put(struct dma_buf *dmabuf)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_put);
+static struct sg_table * __map_dma_buf(struct dma_buf_attachment *attach,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+{
+ struct sg_table *sg_table;
+
+ sg_table = attach->dmabuf->ops->map_dma_buf(attach, direction);
+
+#if CONFIG_DMABUF_DEBUG
+ if (sg_table) {
+ int i;
+ struct scatterlist *sg;
+
+ /* To catch abuse of the underlying struct page by importers mix
+ * up the bits, but take care to preserve the low SG_ bits to
+ * not corrupt the sgt. The mixing is undone in __unmap_dma_buf
+ * before passing the sgt back to the exporter. */
+ for_each_sgtable_sg(sg_table, sg, i)
+ sg->page_link ^= ~0xffUL;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ return sg_table;
+}
+
/**
* dma_buf_dynamic_attach - Add the device to dma_buf's attachments list
* @dmabuf: [in] buffer to attach device to.
@@ -737,7 +761,7 @@ dma_buf_dynamic_attach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct device *dev,
goto err_unlock;
}
- sgt = dmabuf->ops->map_dma_buf(attach, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+ sgt = __map_dma_buf(attach, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
if (!sgt)
sgt = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (IS_ERR(sgt)) {
@@ -784,6 +808,23 @@ struct dma_buf_attachment *dma_buf_attach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_attach);
+static void __unmap_dma_buf(struct dma_buf_attachment *attach,
+ struct sg_table *sg_table,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+{
+
+#if CONFIG_DMABUF_DEBUG
+ if (sg_table) {
+ int i;
+ struct scatterlist *sg;
+
+ for_each_sgtable_sg(sg_table, sg, i)
+ sg->page_link ^= ~0xffUL;
+ }
+#endif
+ attach->dmabuf->ops->unmap_dma_buf(attach, sg_table, direction);
+}
+
/**
* dma_buf_detach - Remove the given attachment from dmabuf's attachments list
* @dmabuf: [in] buffer to detach from.
@@ -802,7 +843,7 @@ void dma_buf_detach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct dma_buf_attachment *attach)
if (dma_buf_is_dynamic(attach->dmabuf))
dma_resv_lock(attach->dmabuf->resv, NULL);
- dmabuf->ops->unmap_dma_buf(attach, attach->sgt, attach->dir);
+ __unmap_dma_buf(attach, attach->sgt, attach->dir);
if (dma_buf_is_dynamic(attach->dmabuf)) {
dma_buf_unpin(attach);
@@ -924,7 +965,7 @@ struct sg_table *dma_buf_map_attachment(struct dma_buf_attachment *attach,
}
}
- sg_table = attach->dmabuf->ops->map_dma_buf(attach, direction);
+ sg_table = __map_dma_buf(attach, direction);
if (!sg_table)
sg_table = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -987,7 +1028,7 @@ void dma_buf_unmap_attachment(struct dma_buf_attachment *attach,
if (dma_buf_is_dynamic(attach->dmabuf))
dma_resv_assert_held(attach->dmabuf->resv);
- attach->dmabuf->ops->unmap_dma_buf(attach, sg_table, direction);
+ __unmap_dma_buf(attach, sg_table, direction);
if (dma_buf_is_dynamic(attach->dmabuf) &&
!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMABUF_MOVE_NOTIFY))
--
2.29.2
Am 15.02.21 um 10:06 schrieb Simon Ser:
> On Monday, February 15th, 2021 at 9:58 AM, Christian König <christian.koenig(a)amd.com> wrote:
>
>> we are currently working an Freesync and direct scan out from system
>> memory on AMD APUs in A+A laptops.
>>
>> On problem we stumbled over is that our display hardware needs to scan
>> out from uncached system memory and we currently don't have a way to
>> communicate that through DMA-buf.
>>
>> For our specific use case at hand we are going to implement something
>> driver specific, but the question is should we have something more
>> generic for this?
>>
>> After all the system memory access pattern is a PCIe extension and as
>> such something generic.
> Intel also needs uncached system memory if I'm not mistaken?
No idea, that's why I'm asking. Could be that this is also interesting
for I+A systems.
> Where are the buffers allocated? If GBM, then it needs to allocate memory that
> can be scanned out if the USE_SCANOUT flag is set or if a scanout-capable
> modifier is picked.
>
> If this is about communicating buffer constraints between different components
> of the stack, there were a few proposals about it. The most recent one is [1].
Well the problem here is on a different level of the stack.
See resolution, pitch etc:.. can easily communicated in userspace
without involvement of the kernel. The worst thing which can happen is
that you draw garbage into your own application window.
But if you get the caching attributes in the page tables (both CPU as
well as IOMMU, device etc...) wrong then ARM for example has the
tendency to just spontaneously reboot
X86 is fortunately a bit more gracefully and you only end up with random
data corruption, but that is only marginally better.
So to sum it up that is not something which we can leave in the hands of
userspace.
I think that exporters in the DMA-buf framework should have the ability
to tell importers if the system memory snooping is necessary or not.
Userspace components can then of course tell the exporter what the
importer needs, but validation if that stuff is correct and doesn't
crash the system must happen in the kernel.
Regards,
Christian.
>
> Simon
>
> [1]: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxdc2020.x…
Am 15.02.21 um 13:00 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> Hi
>
> Am 15.02.21 um 10:49 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
>> Hi
>>
>> Am 15.02.21 um 09:58 schrieb Christian König:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> we are currently working an Freesync and direct scan out from system
>>> memory on AMD APUs in A+A laptops.
>>>
>>> On problem we stumbled over is that our display hardware needs to
>>> scan out from uncached system memory and we currently don't have a
>>> way to communicate that through DMA-buf.
>
> Re-reading this paragrah, it sounds more as if you want to let the
> exporter know where to move the buffer. Is this another case of the
> missing-pin-flag problem?
No, your original interpretation was correct. Maybe my writing is a bit
unspecific.
The real underlying issue is that our display hardware has a problem
with latency when accessing system memory.
So the question is if that also applies to for example Intel hardware or
other devices as well or if it is just something AMD specific?
Regards,
Christian.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>>>
>>> For our specific use case at hand we are going to implement
>>> something driver specific, but the question is should we have
>>> something more generic for this?
>>
>> For vmap operations, we return the address as struct dma_buf_map,
>> which contains additional information about the memory buffer. In
>> vram helpers, we have the interface drm_gem_vram_offset() that
>> returns the offset of the GPU device memory.
>>
>> Would it be feasible to combine both concepts into a dma-buf
>> interface that returns the device-memory offset plus the additional
>> caching flag?
>>
>> There'd be a structure and a getter function returning the structure.
>>
>> struct dma_buf_offset {
>> bool cached;
>> u64 address;
>> };
>>
>> // return offset in *off
>> int dma_buf_offset(struct dma_buf *buf, struct dma_buf_off *off);
>>
>> Whatever settings are returned by dma_buf_offset() are valid while
>> the dma_buf is pinned.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Thomas
>>
>>>
>>> After all the system memory access pattern is a PCIe extension and
>>> as such something generic.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christian.
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>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:13 AM Bas Nieuwenhuizen
<bas(a)basnieuwenhuizen.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 4:40 PM Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling(a)amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > Am 2021-01-28 um 2:39 a.m. schrieb Christian König:
> > > Am 27.01.21 um 23:00 schrieb Felix Kuehling:
> > >> Am 2021-01-27 um 7:16 a.m. schrieb Christian König:
> > >>> Am 27.01.21 um 13:11 schrieb Maarten Lankhorst:
> > >>>> Op 27-01-2021 om 01:22 schreef Felix Kuehling:
> > >>>>> Am 2021-01-21 um 2:40 p.m. schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > >>>>>> Recently there was a fairly long thread about recoreable hardware
> > >>>>>> page
> > >>>>>> faults, how they can deadlock, and what to do about that.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> While the discussion is still fresh I figured good time to try and
> > >>>>>> document the conclusions a bit.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> References:
> > >>>>>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kern…
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst(a)linux.intel.com>
> > >>>>>> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom(a)intel.com>
> > >>>>>> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
> > >>>>>> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com>
> > >>>>>> Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling(a)amd.com>
> > >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter(a)intel.com>
> > >>>>>> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org>
> > >>>>>> Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
> > >>>>>> Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org
> > >>>>>> --
> > >>>>>> I'll be away next week, but figured I'll type this up quickly for
> > >>>>>> some
> > >>>>>> comments and to check whether I got this all roughly right.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Critique very much wanted on this, so that we can make sure hw which
> > >>>>>> can't preempt (with pagefaults pending) like gfx10 has a clear
> > >>>>>> path to
> > >>>>>> support page faults in upstream. So anything I missed, got wrong or
> > >>>>>> like that would be good.
> > >>>>>> -Daniel
> > >>>>>> ---
> > >>>>>> Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst | 66
> > >>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>>>>> 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
> > >>>>>> b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
> > >>>>>> index a2133d69872c..e924c1e4f7a3 100644
> > >>>>>> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
> > >>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
> > >>>>>> @@ -257,3 +257,69 @@ fences in the kernel. This means:
> > >>>>>> userspace is allowed to use userspace fencing or long running
> > >>>>>> compute
> > >>>>>> workloads. This also means no implicit fencing for shared
> > >>>>>> buffers in these
> > >>>>>> cases.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +Recoverable Hardware Page Faults Implications
> > >>>>>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +Modern hardware supports recoverable page faults, which has a
> > >>>>>> lot of
> > >>>>>> +implications for DMA fences.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +First, a pending page fault obviously holds up the work that's
> > >>>>>> running on the
> > >>>>>> +accelerator and a memory allocation is usually required to resolve
> > >>>>>> the fault.
> > >>>>>> +But memory allocations are not allowed to gate completion of DMA
> > >>>>>> fences, which
> > >>>>>> +means any workload using recoverable page faults cannot use DMA
> > >>>>>> fences for
> > >>>>>> +synchronization. Synchronization fences controlled by userspace
> > >>>>>> must be used
> > >>>>>> +instead.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +On GPUs this poses a problem, because current desktop compositor
> > >>>>>> protocols on
> > >>>>>> +Linus rely on DMA fences, which means without an entirely new
> > >>>>>> userspace stack
> > >>>>>> +built on top of userspace fences, they cannot benefit from
> > >>>>>> recoverable page
> > >>>>>> +faults. The exception is when page faults are only used as
> > >>>>>> migration hints and
> > >>>>>> +never to on-demand fill a memory request. For now this means
> > >>>>>> recoverable page
> > >>>>>> +faults on GPUs are limited to pure compute workloads.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +Furthermore GPUs usually have shared resources between the 3D
> > >>>>>> rendering and
> > >>>>>> +compute side, like compute units or command submission engines. If
> > >>>>>> both a 3D
> > >>>>>> +job with a DMA fence and a compute workload using recoverable page
> > >>>>>> faults are
> > >>>>>> +pending they could deadlock:
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- The 3D workload might need to wait for the compute job to finish
> > >>>>>> and release
> > >>>>>> + hardware resources first.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- The compute workload might be stuck in a page fault, because the
> > >>>>>> memory
> > >>>>>> + allocation is waiting for the DMA fence of the 3D workload to
> > >>>>>> complete.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +There are a few ways to prevent this problem:
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- Compute workloads can always be preempted, even when a page
> > >>>>>> fault is pending
> > >>>>>> + and not yet repaired. Not all hardware supports this.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- DMA fence workloads and workloads which need page fault handling
> > >>>>>> have
> > >>>>>> + independent hardware resources to guarantee forward progress.
> > >>>>>> This could be
> > >>>>>> + achieved through e.g. through dedicated engines and minimal
> > >>>>>> compute unit
> > >>>>>> + reservations for DMA fence workloads.
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- The reservation approach could be further refined by only
> > >>>>>> reserving the
> > >>>>>> + hardware resources for DMA fence workloads when they are
> > >>>>>> in-flight. This must
> > >>>>>> + cover the time from when the DMA fence is visible to other
> > >>>>>> threads up to
> > >>>>>> + moment when fence is completed through dma_fence_signal().
> > >>>>>> +
> > >>>>>> +- As a last resort, if the hardware provides no useful reservation
> > >>>>>> mechanics,
> > >>>>>> + all workloads must be flushed from the GPU when switching
> > >>>>>> between jobs
> > >>>>>> + requiring DMA fences or jobs requiring page fault handling: This
> > >>>>>> means all DMA
> > >>>>>> + fences must complete before a compute job with page fault
> > >>>>>> handling can be
> > >>>>>> + inserted into the scheduler queue. And vice versa, before a DMA
> > >>>>>> fence can be
> > >>>>>> + made visible anywhere in the system, all compute workloads must
> > >>>>>> be preempted
> > >>>>>> + to guarantee all pending GPU page faults are flushed.
> > >>>>> I thought of another possible workaround:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> * Partition the memory. Servicing of page faults will use a
> > >>>>> separate
> > >>>>> memory pool that can always be allocated from without
> > >>>>> waiting for
> > >>>>> fences. This includes memory for page tables and memory for
> > >>>>> migrating data to. You may steal memory from other processes
> > >>>>> that
> > >>>>> can page fault, so no fence waiting is necessary. Being able to
> > >>>>> steal memory at any time also means there are basically no
> > >>>>> out-of-memory situations you need to worry about. Even page
> > >>>>> tables
> > >>>>> (except the root page directory of each process) can be
> > >>>>> stolen in
> > >>>>> the worst case.
> > >>>> I think 'overcommit' would be a nice way to describe this. But I'm not
> > >>>> sure how easy this is to implement in practice. You would basically
> > >>>> need
> > >>>> to create your own memory manager for this.
> > >>> Well you would need a completely separate pool for both device as well
> > >>> as system memory.
> > >>>
> > >>> E.g. on boot we say we steal X GB system memory only for HMM.
> > >> Why? The GPU driver doesn't need to allocate system memory for HMM.
> > >> Migrations to system memory are handled by the kernel's handle_mm_fault
> > >> and page allocator and swap logic.
> > >
> > > And that one depends on dma_fence completion because you can easily
> > > need to wait for an MMU notifier callback.
> >
> > I see, the GFX MMU notifier for userpointers in amdgpu currently waits
> > for fences. For the KFD MMU notifier I am planning to fix this by
> > causing GPU page faults instead of preempting the queues. Can we limit
> > userptrs in amdgpu to engines that can page fault. Basically make it
> > illegal to attach userptr BOs to graphics CS BO lists, so they can only
> > be used in user mode command submissions, which can page fault. Then the
> > GFX MMU notifier could invalidate PTEs and would not have to wait for
> > fences.
>
> sadly graphics + userptr is already exposed via Mesa.
This is not about userptr, we fake userptr entirely in software. It's
about exposing recoverable gpu page faults (which would make userptr
maybe more efficient since we could do on-demand paging). userptr
itself isn't a problem, but it is part of the reasons why this is
tricky.
Christian/Felix, I think for kernel folks this is clear enough that I
don't need to clarify this in the text?
-Daniel
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > > As Maarten wrote when you want to go down this route you need a
> > > complete separate memory management parallel to the one of the kernel.
> >
> > Not really. I'm trying to make the GPU memory management more similar to
> > what the kernel does for system memory.
> >
> > I understood Maarten's comment as "I'm creating a new memory manager and
> > not using TTM any more". This is true. The idea is that this portion of
> > VRAM would be managed more like system memory.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Felix
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Christian.
> > >
> > >> It doesn't depend on any fences, so
> > >> it cannot deadlock with any GPU driver-managed memory. The GPU driver
> > >> gets involved in the MMU notifier to invalidate device page tables. But
> > >> that also doesn't need to wait for any fences.
> > >>
> > >> And if the kernel runs out of pageable memory, you're in trouble anyway.
> > >> The OOM killer will step in, nothing new there.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Felix
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>> But from a design point of view, definitely a valid solution.
> > >>> I think the restriction above makes it pretty much unusable.
> > >>>
> > >>>> But this looks good, those solutions are definitely the valid
> > >>>> options we
> > >>>> can choose from.
> > >>> It's certainly worth noting, yes. And just to make sure that nobody
> > >>> has the idea to reserve only device memory.
> > >>>
> > >>> Christian.
> > >>>
> > >>>> ~Maarten
> > >>>>
> > >> _______________________________________________
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> > >>
> > >
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--
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Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
This patchset introduces a new dma heap, "chunk-heap" that makes it
easy to perform the bulk allocation of high order pages.
It has been created to help optimize the 4K/8K HDR video playback
with secure DRM HW to protect contents on memory. The HW needs
physically contiguous memory chunks(e.g, 64K) up to several hundred
MB memory.
To make such high-order big bulk allocations work, chunk-heap uses
CMA area. To avoid CMA allocation long stall on blocking pages(e.g.,
page writeback and/or page locking), it uses failfast mode of the
CMA API(i.e., __GFP_NORETRY) so it will continue to find easy
migratable pages in different pageblocks without stalling. At last
resort, it will allow the blocking only if it couldn't find the
available memory in the end.
First two patches introduces the failfast mode as __GFP_NORETRY
in alloc_contig_range and the allow to use it from the CMA API.
Third patch introduces device tree syntax for chunk-heap to bind
the specific CMA area with chunk-heap.
Finally, last patch implements chunk-heap as dma-buf heap.
* since v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210113012143.1201105-1-minchan@kernel.or…
* use prefix for chunk-name - John
* fix yamllint error - Rob
* add reviewed-by - Suren
* since v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201201175144.3996569-1-minchan@kernel.or…
* introduce gfp_mask with __GFP_NORETRY on cma_alloc - Michal
* do not expoert CMA APIs - Christoph
* use compatible string for DT instead of dma-heap specific property - Hridya
* Since v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201117181935.3613581-1-minchan@kernel.or…
* introduce alloc_contig_mode - David
* use default CMA instead of device tree - John
Hyesoo Yu (2):
dt-bindings: reserved-memory: Make DMA-BUF CMA heap DT-configurable
dma-buf: heaps: add chunk heap to dmabuf heaps
Minchan Kim (2):
mm: cma: introduce gfp flag in cma_alloc instead of no_warn
mm: failfast mode with __GFP_NORETRY in alloc_contig_range
.../reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml | 56 ++
drivers/dma-buf/heaps/Kconfig | 8 +
drivers/dma-buf/heaps/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c | 492 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c | 2 +-
drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cma.h | 2 +-
kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 3 +-
mm/cma.c | 12 +-
mm/cma_debug.c | 2 +-
mm/hugetlb.c | 6 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +-
mm/secretmem.c | 3 +-
13 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c
--
2.30.0.296.g2bfb1c46d8-goog
tldr; DMA buffers aren't normal memory, expecting that you can use
them like that (like calling get_user_pages works, or that they're
accounting like any other normal memory) cannot be guaranteed.
Since some userspace only runs on integrated devices, where all
buffers are actually all resident system memory, there's a huge
temptation to assume that a struct page is always present and useable
like for any more pagecache backed mmap. This has the potential to
result in a uapi nightmare.
To stop this gap require that DMA buffer mmaps are VM_SPECIAL, which
blocks get_user_pages and all the other struct page based
infrastructure for everyone. In spirit this is the uapi counterpart to
the kernel-internal CONFIG_DMABUF_DEBUG.
Motivated by a recent patch which wanted to swich the system dma-buf
heap to vm_insert_page instead of vm_insert_pfn.
References: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKMK7uHi+mG0z0HUmNt13QCCvutuRVjpcR0NjRL12k-Wb…
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg(a)ziepe.ca>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb(a)google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy(a)infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz(a)linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter(a)intel.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org
---
drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
index f264b70c383e..d3081fc07056 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static struct file_system_type dma_buf_fs_type = {
static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
+ int ret;
if (!is_dma_buf_file(file))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -142,7 +143,11 @@ static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
dmabuf->size >> PAGE_SHIFT)
return -EINVAL;
- return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+ ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+
+ WARN_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL));
+
+ return ret;
}
static loff_t dma_buf_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
@@ -1244,6 +1249,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_end_cpu_access);
int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long pgoff)
{
+ int ret;
+
if (WARN_ON(!dmabuf || !vma))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1264,7 +1271,11 @@ int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
vma_set_file(vma, dmabuf->file);
vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
- return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+ ret = dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+
+ WARN_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL));
+
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_mmap);
--
2.30.0
Replace BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) in vm_insert_page with
WARN_ON_ONCE and returning an error. This is to ensure users of the
vm_insert_page that set VM_PFNMAP are notified of the wrong flag usage
and get an indication of an error without panicing the kernel.
This will help identifying drivers that need to clear VM_PFNMAP before
using dmabuf system heap which is moving to use vm_insert_page.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb(a)google.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index feff48e1465a..e503c9801cd9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1827,7 +1827,8 @@ int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
return -EINVAL;
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP)) {
BUG_ON(mmap_read_trylock(vma->vm_mm));
- BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP))
+ return -EINVAL;
vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
}
return insert_page(vma, addr, page, vma->vm_page_prot);
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog
Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory
events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory
hoggers. In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes,
it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the
memory accounting. Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is
important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to
a DMA buffer.
Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc/<pid>/fd/* and
/proc/<pid>/fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner,
as follows:
1. Do a readlink on each FD.
2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD.
3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number.
4. Read/ proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>, to get the DMA buffer size.
Accessing other processes’ fdinfo requires root privileges. This limits
the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable
for production builds. Granting root privileges even to a system process
increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable.
Since fdinfo doesn't permit reading process memory and manipulating
process state, allow accessing fdinfo under PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED.
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh(a)google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh(a)google.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Update patch desciption
fs/proc/base.c | 4 ++--
fs/proc/fd.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index b3422cda2a91..a37f9de7103f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -3160,7 +3160,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
DIR("task", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_task_inode_operations, proc_task_operations),
DIR("fd", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
DIR("map_files", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_map_files_inode_operations, proc_map_files_operations),
- DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+ DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
DIR("ns", S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
DIR("net", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_net_inode_operations, proc_net_operations),
@@ -3504,7 +3504,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_tid_comm_inode_operations = {
*/
static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
DIR("fd", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
- DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+ DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
DIR("ns", S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
DIR("net", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_net_inode_operations, proc_net_operations),
diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index cb51763ed554..585e213301f9 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/fdtable.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/pid.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
@@ -72,6 +73,18 @@ static int seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
static int seq_fdinfo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
+ bool allowed = false;
+ struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
+
+ if (!task)
+ return -ESRCH;
+
+ allowed = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
+ put_task_struct(task);
+
+ if (!allowed)
+ return -EACCES;
+
return single_open(file, seq_show, inode);
}
@@ -307,7 +320,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_fdinfo_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry,
struct proc_inode *ei;
struct inode *inode;
- inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dentry->d_sb, task, S_IFREG | S_IRUSR);
+ inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dentry->d_sb, task, S_IFREG | S_IRUGO);
if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog
Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory
events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory
hoggers. In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes,
it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the
memory accounting. Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is
important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to
a DMA buffer.
Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc/<pid>/fd/* and
/proc/<pid>/fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner,
as follows:
1. Do a readlink on each FD.
2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD.
3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number.
4. Read/ proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>, to get the DMA buffer size.
Accessing other processes’ fdinfo requires root privileges. This limits
the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable
for production builds. Granting root privileges even to a system process
increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable.
This series proposes making the requirement to read fdinfo less strict
with PTRACE_MODE_READ.
Kalesh Singh (2):
procfs: Allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ
dmabuf: Add dmabuf inode no to fdinfo
drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 1 +
fs/proc/base.c | 4 ++--
fs/proc/fd.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 22.01.21 um 14:36 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > Requested by Thomas. I think it justifies a new level, since I tried
> > to make some forward progress on this last summer, and gave up (for
> > now). This is very tricky.
>
> Adding it to the TODO list is a first step. :)
>
> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann(a)suse.de>
Applied.
-Daniel
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter(a)intel.com>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst(a)linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard(a)kernel.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann(a)suse.de>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied(a)linux.ie>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel(a)ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org>
> > Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
> > Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org
> > ---
> > Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> > index dea9082c0e5f..f872d3d33218 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> > @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem
> > and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and
> > testing.
> > +Expert: Only attempt these if you've successfully completed some tricky
> > +refactorings already and are an expert in the specific area
> > +
> > Subsystem-wide refactorings
> > ===========================
> > @@ -168,6 +171,22 @@ Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
> > Level: Advanced
> > +Move Buffer Object Locking to dma_resv_lock()
> > +---------------------------------------------
> > +
> > +Many drivers have their own per-object locking scheme, usually using
> > +mutex_lock(). This causes all kinds of trouble for buffer sharing, since
> > +depending which driver is the exporter and importer, the locking hierarchy is
> > +reversed.
> > +
> > +To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is
> > +dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all
> > +other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out
> > +the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf
> > +buffer sharing.
> > +
> > +Level: Expert
> > +
> > Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
>
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
Currently system heap maps its buffers with VM_PFNMAP flag using
remap_pfn_range. This results in such buffers not being accounted
for in PSS calculations because vm treats this memory as having no
page structs. Without page structs there are no counters representing
how many processes are mapping a page and therefore PSS calculation
is impossible.
Historically, ION driver used to map its buffers as VM_PFNMAP areas
due to memory carveouts that did not have page structs [1]. That
is not the case anymore and it seems there was desire to move away
from remap_pfn_range [2].
Dmabuf system heap design inherits this ION behavior and maps its
pages using remap_pfn_range even though allocated pages are backed
by page structs.
Clear VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP flags when mapping memory allocated by the
system heap and replace remap_pfn_range with vm_insert_page, following
Laura's suggestion in [1]. This would allow correct PSS calculation
for dmabufs.
[1] https://driverdev-devel.linuxdriverproject.narkive.com/v0fJGpaD/using-ion-m…
[2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2018-Octo…
(sorry, could not find lore links for these discussions)
Suggested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott(a)kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb(a)google.com>
---
drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c
index 17e0e9a68baf..0e92e42b2251 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c
@@ -200,11 +200,13 @@ static int system_heap_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
struct sg_page_iter piter;
int ret;
+ /* All pages are backed by a "struct page" */
+ vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_PFNMAP;
+
for_each_sgtable_page(table, &piter, vma->vm_pgoff) {
struct page *page = sg_page_iter_page(&piter);
- ret = remap_pfn_range(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page), PAGE_SIZE,
- vma->vm_page_prot);
+ ret = vm_insert_page(vma, addr, page);
if (ret)
return ret;
addr += PAGE_SIZE;
--
2.30.0.280.ga3ce27912f-goog
Recently there was a fairly long thread about recoreable hardware page
faults, how they can deadlock, and what to do about that.
While the discussion is still fresh I figured good time to try and
document the conclusions a bit.
References: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210107030127.20393-1-Felix.Kuehling@amd…
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom(a)intel.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling(a)amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter(a)intel.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org>
Cc: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org
--
I'll be away next week, but figured I'll type this up quickly for some
comments and to check whether I got this all roughly right.
Critique very much wanted on this, so that we can make sure hw which
can't preempt (with pagefaults pending) like gfx10 has a clear path to
support page faults in upstream. So anything I missed, got wrong or
like that would be good.
-Daniel
---
Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
index a2133d69872c..e924c1e4f7a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
@@ -257,3 +257,69 @@ fences in the kernel. This means:
userspace is allowed to use userspace fencing or long running compute
workloads. This also means no implicit fencing for shared buffers in these
cases.
+
+Recoverable Hardware Page Faults Implications
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Modern hardware supports recoverable page faults, which has a lot of
+implications for DMA fences.
+
+First, a pending page fault obviously holds up the work that's running on the
+accelerator and a memory allocation is usually required to resolve the fault.
+But memory allocations are not allowed to gate completion of DMA fences, which
+means any workload using recoverable page faults cannot use DMA fences for
+synchronization. Synchronization fences controlled by userspace must be used
+instead.
+
+On GPUs this poses a problem, because current desktop compositor protocols on
+Linus rely on DMA fences, which means without an entirely new userspace stack
+built on top of userspace fences, they cannot benefit from recoverable page
+faults. The exception is when page faults are only used as migration hints and
+never to on-demand fill a memory request. For now this means recoverable page
+faults on GPUs are limited to pure compute workloads.
+
+Furthermore GPUs usually have shared resources between the 3D rendering and
+compute side, like compute units or command submission engines. If both a 3D
+job with a DMA fence and a compute workload using recoverable page faults are
+pending they could deadlock:
+
+- The 3D workload might need to wait for the compute job to finish and release
+ hardware resources first.
+
+- The compute workload might be stuck in a page fault, because the memory
+ allocation is waiting for the DMA fence of the 3D workload to complete.
+
+There are a few ways to prevent this problem:
+
+- Compute workloads can always be preempted, even when a page fault is pending
+ and not yet repaired. Not all hardware supports this.
+
+- DMA fence workloads and workloads which need page fault handling have
+ independent hardware resources to guarantee forward progress. This could be
+ achieved through e.g. through dedicated engines and minimal compute unit
+ reservations for DMA fence workloads.
+
+- The reservation approach could be further refined by only reserving the
+ hardware resources for DMA fence workloads when they are in-flight. This must
+ cover the time from when the DMA fence is visible to other threads up to
+ moment when fence is completed through dma_fence_signal().
+
+- As a last resort, if the hardware provides no useful reservation mechanics,
+ all workloads must be flushed from the GPU when switching between jobs
+ requiring DMA fences or jobs requiring page fault handling: This means all DMA
+ fences must complete before a compute job with page fault handling can be
+ inserted into the scheduler queue. And vice versa, before a DMA fence can be
+ made visible anywhere in the system, all compute workloads must be preempted
+ to guarantee all pending GPU page faults are flushed.
+
+Note that workloads that run on independent hardware like copy engines or other
+GPUs do not have any impact. This allows us to keep using DMA fences internally
+in the kernel even for resolving hardware page faults, e.g. by using copy
+engines to clear or copy memory needed to resolve the page fault.
+
+In some ways this page fault problem is a special case of the `Infinite DMA
+Fences` discussions: Infinite fences from compute workloads are allowed to
+depend on DMA fences, but not the other way around. And not even the page fault
+problem is new, because some other CPU thread in userspace might
+hit a page fault which holds up a userspace fence - supporting page faults on
+GPUs doesn't anything fundamentally new.
--
2.30.0
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 01:08:05PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 11.01.21 um 17:50 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 10:43:31AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Implementations of the vmap/vunmap GEM callbacks may perform pinning
> > > of the BO and may acquire the associated reservation object's lock.
> > > Callers that only require a mapping of the contained memory can thus
> > > interfere with other tasks that require exact pinning, such as scanout.
> > > This is less of an issue with private SHMEM buffers, but may happen
> > > with imported ones.
> > >
> > > Therefore provide the new interfaces drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local() and
> > > drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local(), which only perform the vmap/vunmap
> > > operations. Callers have to hold the reservation lock while the mapping
> > > persists.
> > >
> > > This patch also connects GEM SHMEM helpers to GEM object functions with
> > > equivalent functionality.
> > >
> > > v4:
> > > * call dma_buf_{vmap,vunmap}_local() where necessary (Daniel)
> > > * move driver changes into separate patches (Daniel)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann(a)suse.de>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > > include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h | 2 +
> > > 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> > > index 9825c378dfa6..298832b2b43b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> > > @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ static const struct drm_gem_object_funcs drm_gem_shmem_funcs = {
> > > .get_sg_table = drm_gem_shmem_get_sg_table,
> > > .vmap = drm_gem_shmem_vmap,
> > > .vunmap = drm_gem_shmem_vunmap,
> > > + .vmap_local = drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local,
> > > + .vunmap_local = drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local,
> > > .mmap = drm_gem_shmem_mmap,
> > > };
> > > @@ -261,7 +263,8 @@ void drm_gem_shmem_unpin(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_shmem_unpin);
> > > -static int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem, struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > +static int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem, struct dma_buf_map *map,
> > > + bool local)
> >
> > This is a bit spaghetti and also has the problem that we're not changing
> > shmem->vmap_use_count under different locks, depending upon which path
> > we're taking.
> >
> > I think the cleanest would be if we pull the if (import_attach) case out
> > of the _locked() version completely, for all cases, and also outside of
> > the shmem->vmap_lock. This means no caching of vmaps in the shmem layer
> > anymore for imported buffers, but this is no longer a problem: We cache
> > them in the exporters instead (I think at least, if not maybe need to fix
> > that where it's expensive).
>
> There's no vmap refcounting in amdgpu AFAICT. So importing pages from there
> into an SHMEM object has the potential of breaking. IIRC same fro radeon and
> nouveau.
As long as the pinning is refcounted I think it should be fine, it's just
that if you have multiple vmaps (e.g. 2 udl devices plugged in) we'll set
up 2 vmaps. Which is a point pointless, but not really harmful. At least
on 64bit where there's enough virtual address space.
> So I'm somewhat reluctant to making this change. I guess I'll look elsewhere
> first to fix some of the locking issues (e.g., my recent ast cursor
> patches).
If this would break for amdgpu/radeon/nouveau then we already have a bug,
since 2 udl devices can provoke this issue already as-is. So I don't think
this should be a blocker.
-Daniel
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> >
> > Other option would be to unly pull it out for the _vmap_local case, but
> > that's a bit ugly because no longer symmetrical in the various paths.
> >
> > > {
> > > struct drm_gem_object *obj = &shmem->base;
> > > int ret = 0;
> > > @@ -272,7 +275,10 @@ static int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem, struct
> > > }
> > > if (obj->import_attach) {
> > > - ret = dma_buf_vmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > + if (local)
> > > + ret = dma_buf_vmap_local(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > + else
> > > + ret = dma_buf_vmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > if (!ret) {
> > > if (WARN_ON(map->is_iomem)) {
> > > ret = -EIO;
> > > @@ -313,7 +319,7 @@ static int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem, struct
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > > -/*
> > > +/**
> > > * drm_gem_shmem_vmap - Create a virtual mapping for a shmem GEM object
> > > * @shmem: shmem GEM object
> > > * @map: Returns the kernel virtual address of the SHMEM GEM object's backing
> > > @@ -339,15 +345,53 @@ int drm_gem_shmem_vmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > if (ret)
> > > return ret;
> > > - ret = drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(shmem, map);
> > > + ret = drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(shmem, map, false);
> > > mutex_unlock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_shmem_vmap);
> > > +/**
> > > + * drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local - Create a virtual mapping for a shmem GEM object
> > > + * @shmem: shmem GEM object
> > > + * @map: Returns the kernel virtual address of the SHMEM GEM object's backing
> > > + * store.
> > > + *
> > > + * This function makes sure that a contiguous kernel virtual address mapping
> > > + * exists for the buffer backing the shmem GEM object.
> > > + *
> > > + * The function is called with the BO's reservation object locked. Callers must
> > > + * hold the lock until after unmapping the buffer.
> > > + *
> > > + * This function can be used to implement &drm_gem_object_funcs.vmap_local. But
> > > + * it can also be called by drivers directly, in which case it will hide the
> > > + * differences between dma-buf imported and natively allocated objects.
> >
> > So for the other callbacks I tried to make sure we have different entry
> > points for this, since it's not really the same thing and because of the
> > locking mess we have with dma_resv_lock vs various pre-existing local
> > locking scheme, it's easy to get a mess.
> >
> > I think the super clean version here would be to also export just the
> > internal stuff for the ->v(un)map_local hooks, but that's maybe a bit too
> > much boilerplate for no real gain.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > > + *
> > > + * Acquired mappings should be cleaned up by calling drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local().
> > > + *
> > > + * Returns:
> > > + * 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
> > > + */
> > > +int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > +{
> > > + struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + dma_resv_assert_held(obj->resv);
> > > +
> > > + ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > + if (ret)
> > > + return ret;
> > > + ret = drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(shmem, map, true);
> > > + mutex_unlock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > +
> > > + return ret;
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local);
> > > +
> > > static void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem,
> > > - struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > + struct dma_buf_map *map, bool local)
> > > {
> > > struct drm_gem_object *obj = &shmem->base;
> > > @@ -358,7 +402,10 @@ static void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem,
> > > return;
> > > if (obj->import_attach)
> > > - dma_buf_vunmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > + if (local)
> > > + dma_buf_vunmap_local(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > + else
> > > + dma_buf_vunmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
> > > else
> > > vunmap(shmem->vaddr);
> > > @@ -366,7 +413,7 @@ static void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem,
> > > drm_gem_shmem_put_pages(shmem);
> > > }
> > > -/*
> > > +/**
> > > * drm_gem_shmem_vunmap - Unmap a virtual mapping fo a shmem GEM object
> > > * @shmem: shmem GEM object
> > > * @map: Kernel virtual address where the SHMEM GEM object was mapped
> > > @@ -384,11 +431,38 @@ void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
> > > mutex_lock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > - drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(shmem, map);
> > > + drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(shmem, map, false);
> > > mutex_unlock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_shmem_vunmap);
> > > +/**
> > > + * drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local - Unmap a virtual mapping fo a shmem GEM object
> > > + * @shmem: shmem GEM object
> > > + * @map: Kernel virtual address where the SHMEM GEM object was mapped
> > > + *
> > > + * This function cleans up a kernel virtual address mapping acquired by
> > > + * drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local(). The mapping is only removed when the use count
> > > + * drops to zero.
> > > + *
> > > + * The function is called with the BO's reservation object locked.
> > > + *
> > > + * This function can be used to implement &drm_gem_object_funcs.vmap_local.
> > > + * But it can also be called by drivers directly, in which case it will hide
> > > + * the differences between dma-buf imported and natively allocated objects.
> > > + */
> > > +void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map)
> > > +{
> > > + struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
> > > +
> > > + dma_resv_assert_held(obj->resv);
> > > +
> > > + mutex_lock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > + drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(shmem, map, true);
> > > + mutex_unlock(&shmem->vmap_lock);
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local);
> > > +
> > > struct drm_gem_shmem_object *
> > > drm_gem_shmem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file_priv,
> > > struct drm_device *dev, size_t size,
> > > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h
> > > index 434328d8a0d9..3f59bdf749aa 100644
> > > --- a/include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h
> > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.h
> > > @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ void drm_gem_shmem_put_pages(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem);
> > > int drm_gem_shmem_pin(struct drm_gem_object *obj);
> > > void drm_gem_shmem_unpin(struct drm_gem_object *obj);
> > > int drm_gem_shmem_vmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map);
> > > +int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_local(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map);
> > > void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map);
> > > +void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_local(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct dma_buf_map *map);
> > > int drm_gem_shmem_madvise(struct drm_gem_object *obj, int madv);
> > > --
> > > 2.29.2
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
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--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
Hi Simon,
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 20:01, Simon Ser <contact(a)emersion.fr> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, January 28th, 2021 at 1:03 PM, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal(a)linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > Since he didn't comment over Hridya's last clarification about the
> > tracepoints to track total GPU memory allocations being orthogonal to
> > this series, I assumed he agreed with it.
>
> IIRC he's away this week. (I don't remember when he comes back.)
>
> > Daniel, do you still have objections around adding this patch in?
>
> (Adding him explicitly in CC)
Thanks for doing this!
Best,
Sumit.
Am 31.01.21 um 18:39 schrieb Joe Perches:
> On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:26 +0100, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 30.01.21 um 19:47 schrieb Joe Perches:
>>> On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 21:56 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>> Use semicolons and braces.
>>> Ping?
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig(a)amd.com>
>>
>> Do you have commit rights to drm-misc-next?
> No.
Pushed.
Thanks for the help,
Christian.
>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/dma-buf/st-dma-fence.c | 7 +++++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/st-dma-fence.c b/drivers/dma-buf/st-dma-fence.c
>>>> index e593064341c8..c8a12d7ad71a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/st-dma-fence.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/st-dma-fence.c
>>>> @@ -471,8 +471,11 @@ static int thread_signal_callback(void *arg)
>>>> dma_fence_signal(f1);
>>>>
>>>> smp_store_mb(cb.seen, false);
>>>> - if (!f2 || dma_fence_add_callback(f2, &cb.cb, simple_callback))
>>>> - miss++, cb.seen = true;
>>>> + if (!f2 ||
>>>> + dma_fence_add_callback(f2, &cb.cb, simple_callback)) {
>>>> + miss++;
>>>> + cb.seen = true;
>>>> + }
>>>>
>>>> if (!t->before)
>>>> dma_fence_signal(f1);
>
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 08:53:25AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 27-01-21 12:42:45, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:44:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Mon 25-01-21 11:33:36, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:12:00PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > On Thu 21-01-21 09:55:00, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > > > > Contiguous memory allocation can be stalled due to waiting
> > > > > > on page writeback and/or page lock which causes unpredictable
> > > > > > delay. It's a unavoidable cost for the requestor to get *big*
> > > > > > contiguous memory but it's expensive for *small* contiguous
> > > > > > memory(e.g., order-4) because caller could retry the request
> > > > > > in different range where would have easy migratable pages
> > > > > > without stalling.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This patch introduce __GFP_NORETRY as compaction gfp_mask in
> > > > > > alloc_contig_range so it will fail fast without blocking
> > > > > > when it encounters pages needed waiting.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am not against controling how hard this allocator tries with gfp mask
> > > > > but this changelog is rather void on any data and any user.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is also rather dubious to have retries when then caller says to not
> > > > > retry.
> > > >
> > > > Since max_tries is 1 with ++tries, it shouldn't retry.
> > >
> > > OK, I have missed that. This is a tricky code. ASYNC mode should be
> > > completely orthogonal to the retries count. Those are different things.
> > > Page allocator does an explicit bail out based on __GFP_NORETRY. You
> > > should be doing the same.
> >
> > Before sending next revision, let me check this part again.
> >
> > I want to use __GFP_NORETRY to indicate "opportunistic-easy-to-fail attempt"
> > and I want to use ASYNC migrate_mode to help the goal.
> >
> > Do you see the problem?
>
> No, as I've said. This is a normal NORETRY policy. And ASYNC migration
> is a mere implementation detail you do not have bother your users about.
> This is the semantic view. From the implementation POV it should be the
> gfp mask to drive decisions rather than a random (ASYNC) flag to control
> retries as you did here.
Make sense.
Let me cook next revision.
Thanks for the review, Michal.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:44:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 25-01-21 11:33:36, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:12:00PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 21-01-21 09:55:00, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > > Contiguous memory allocation can be stalled due to waiting
> > > > on page writeback and/or page lock which causes unpredictable
> > > > delay. It's a unavoidable cost for the requestor to get *big*
> > > > contiguous memory but it's expensive for *small* contiguous
> > > > memory(e.g., order-4) because caller could retry the request
> > > > in different range where would have easy migratable pages
> > > > without stalling.
> > > >
> > > > This patch introduce __GFP_NORETRY as compaction gfp_mask in
> > > > alloc_contig_range so it will fail fast without blocking
> > > > when it encounters pages needed waiting.
> > >
> > > I am not against controling how hard this allocator tries with gfp mask
> > > but this changelog is rather void on any data and any user.
> > >
> > > It is also rather dubious to have retries when then caller says to not
> > > retry.
> >
> > Since max_tries is 1 with ++tries, it shouldn't retry.
>
> OK, I have missed that. This is a tricky code. ASYNC mode should be
> completely orthogonal to the retries count. Those are different things.
> Page allocator does an explicit bail out based on __GFP_NORETRY. You
> should be doing the same.
Before sending next revision, let me check this part again.
I want to use __GFP_NORETRY to indicate "opportunistic-easy-to-fail attempt"
and I want to use ASYNC migrate_mode to help the goal.
Do you see the problem?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:38:08AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 25-01-21 11:42:34, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:07:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 21-01-21 09:54:59, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > > The upcoming patch will introduce __GFP_NORETRY semantic
> > > > in alloc_contig_range which is a failfast mode of the API.
> > > > Instead of adding a additional parameter for gfp, replace
> > > > no_warn with gfp flag.
> > > >
> > > > To keep old behaviors, it follows the rule below.
> > > >
> > > > no_warn gfp_flags
> > > >
> > > > false GFP_KERNEL
> > > > true GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN
> > > > gfp & __GFP_NOWARN GFP_KERNEL | (gfp & __GFP_NOWARN)
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb(a)google.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan(a)kernel.org>
> > > [...]
> > > > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> > > > index 0ba69cd16aeb..d50627686fec 100644
> > > > --- a/mm/cma.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/cma.c
> > > > @@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
> > > > * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed.
> > > > * @count: Requested number of pages.
> > > > * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order).
> > > > - * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation
> > > > + * @gfp_mask: GFP mask to use during the cma allocation.
> > >
> > > Call out supported gfp flags explicitly. Have a look at kvmalloc_node
> > > for a guidance.
> >
> > How about this?
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> > index d50627686fec..b94727b694d6 100644
> > --- a/mm/cma.c
> > +++ b/mm/cma.c
> > @@ -423,6 +423,10 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
> > *
> > * This function allocates part of contiguous memory on specific
> > * contiguous memory area.
> > + *
> > + * For gfp_mask, GFP_KERNEL and __GFP_NORETRY are supported. __GFP_NORETRY
> > + * will avoid costly functions(e.g., waiting on page_writeback and locking)
> > + * at current implementaion during the page migration.
>
> rather than explicitly mentioning what the flag implies I think it would
> be more useful to state the intended usecase. See how kvmalloc_node says
> "__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
> preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance
> drawbacks.
> __GFP_NOWARN is also supported to suppress allocation failure messages."
>
> This would help people not familiar with internals to see whether this
> flag is a good fit for them.
>
> In this case I woul go with
> "
> @flags: gfp mask. Must be compatible (superset) with GFP_KERNEL.
> [...]
> Reclaim modifiers (__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, __GFP_NOFAIL) are not supported.
> __GFP_NORETRY is supported, and it should be used for opportunistic
> allocation attempts that should rather fail quickly when the caller has
> a fallback strategy.
> "
>
> Obviously for this patch you will go with a simple statement that
> Reclaim modifiers are not supported at all.
After more discussion for gfp_flags in thread of next patch, let me
changes a bit more based on it.
Thanks for the suggestion, Michal.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:46:05AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 21-01-21 09:55:02, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > From: Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu(a)samsung.com>
> >
> > This patch supports chunk heap that allocates the buffers that
> > arranged into a list a fixed size chunks taken from CMA.
> >
> > The chunk heap driver is bound directly to a reserved_memory
> > node by following Rob Herring's suggestion in [1].
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191025225009.50305-2-john.stultz@linaro.org/…
>
> Who is using this allocator in the kernel?
Userspace uses the memory via mapping it via dmabuf.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:44:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 25-01-21 11:33:36, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:12:00PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 21-01-21 09:55:00, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > > Contiguous memory allocation can be stalled due to waiting
> > > > on page writeback and/or page lock which causes unpredictable
> > > > delay. It's a unavoidable cost for the requestor to get *big*
> > > > contiguous memory but it's expensive for *small* contiguous
> > > > memory(e.g., order-4) because caller could retry the request
> > > > in different range where would have easy migratable pages
> > > > without stalling.
> > > >
> > > > This patch introduce __GFP_NORETRY as compaction gfp_mask in
> > > > alloc_contig_range so it will fail fast without blocking
> > > > when it encounters pages needed waiting.
> > >
> > > I am not against controling how hard this allocator tries with gfp mask
> > > but this changelog is rather void on any data and any user.
> > >
> > > It is also rather dubious to have retries when then caller says to not
> > > retry.
> >
> > Since max_tries is 1 with ++tries, it shouldn't retry.
>
> OK, I have missed that. This is a tricky code. ASYNC mode should be
> completely orthogonal to the retries count. Those are different things.
> Page allocator does an explicit bail out based on __GFP_NORETRY. You
> should be doing the same.
A concern with __GFP_NOWAIT is regardless of flags passed to cma_alloc,
internal implementation of alloc_contig_range inside will use blockable
operation. See __alloc_contig_migrate_range.
If we go with __GFP_NOWAIT, we should propagate the gfp_mask inside of
__alloc_contig_migrate_range to make cma_alloc consistent with alloc_pages.
(IIUC, that's what you want - make gfp_mask consistent between cma_alloc
and alloc_pages) but I am worry about the direction will make complicate
situation since cma invovles migration context as well as target page
allocation context. Sometime, the single gfp flag could be trouble
to express both contexts all at once.
>
> > >
> > > Also why didn't you consider GFP_NOWAIT semantic for non blocking mode?
> >
> > GFP_NOWAIT seems to be low(specific) flags rather than the one I want to
> > express. Even though I said only page writeback/lock in the description,
> > the goal is to avoid costly operations we might find later so such
> > "failfast", I thought GFP_NORETRY would be good fit.
>
> I suspect you are too focused on implementation details here. Think
> about the indended semantic. Callers of this functionality will not
> think about those (I hope because if they rely on these details then the
> whole thing will become unmaintainable because any change would require
> an audit of all existing users). All you should be caring about is to
> control how expensive the call can be. GFP_NOWAIT is not really low
> level from that POV. It gives you a very lightweight non-sleeping
> attempt to allocate. GFP_NORETRY will give you potentially sleeping but
> an opportunistic-easy-to-fail attempt. And so on. See how that is
> absolutely free of any page writeback or any specific locking.
With above reason I mentioned, I wanted to express __GFP_NORETRY as
"opportunistic-easy-to-fail attempt" to support cma_alloc as "failfast"
for migration context.
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:07:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 21-01-21 09:54:59, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > The upcoming patch will introduce __GFP_NORETRY semantic
> > in alloc_contig_range which is a failfast mode of the API.
> > Instead of adding a additional parameter for gfp, replace
> > no_warn with gfp flag.
> >
> > To keep old behaviors, it follows the rule below.
> >
> > no_warn gfp_flags
> >
> > false GFP_KERNEL
> > true GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN
> > gfp & __GFP_NOWARN GFP_KERNEL | (gfp & __GFP_NOWARN)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb(a)google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan(a)kernel.org>
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> > index 0ba69cd16aeb..d50627686fec 100644
> > --- a/mm/cma.c
> > +++ b/mm/cma.c
> > @@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
> > * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed.
> > * @count: Requested number of pages.
> > * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order).
> > - * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation
> > + * @gfp_mask: GFP mask to use during the cma allocation.
>
> Call out supported gfp flags explicitly. Have a look at kvmalloc_node
> for a guidance.
How about this?
diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index d50627686fec..b94727b694d6 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -423,6 +423,10 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
*
* This function allocates part of contiguous memory on specific
* contiguous memory area.
+ *
+ * For gfp_mask, GFP_KERNEL and __GFP_NORETRY are supported. __GFP_NORETRY
+ * will avoid costly functions(e.g., waiting on page_writeback and locking)
+ * at current implementaion during the page migration.
*/
struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
gfp_t gfp_mask)