drm/i915: use a separate context for gpu relocs

The CS pre-parser can pre-fetch commands across memory sync points and
starting from gen12 it is able to pre-fetch across BB_START and BB_END
boundaries as well, so when we emit gpu relocs the pre-parser might
fetch the target location of the reloc before the memory write lands.

The parser can't pre-fetch across the ctx switch, so we use a separate
context to guarantee that the memory is synchronized before the parser
can get to it.

Note that there is no risk of the CS doing a lite restore from the reloc
context to the user context, even if the two have the same hw_id,
because since gen11 the CS also checks the LRCA when deciding if it can
lite-restore.

v2: limit new context to gen12+, release in eb_destroy, add a comment
    in emit_fini_breadcrumb (Chris).

Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@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/20190827185805.21799-1-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
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Daniele Ceraolo Spurio 2019-08-27 11:58:05 -07:00 committed by Chris Wilson
parent 45e9c829eb
commit 8a9a982767
2 changed files with 47 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ struct i915_execbuffer {
bool has_fence : 1;
bool needs_unfenced : 1;
struct intel_context *ce;
struct i915_request *rq;
u32 *rq_cmd;
unsigned int rq_size;
@ -880,6 +881,9 @@ static void eb_destroy(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
{
GEM_BUG_ON(eb->reloc_cache.rq);
if (eb->reloc_cache.ce)
intel_context_put(eb->reloc_cache.ce);
if (eb->lut_size > 0)
kfree(eb->buckets);
}
@ -903,6 +907,7 @@ static void reloc_cache_init(struct reloc_cache *cache,
cache->has_fence = cache->gen < 4;
cache->needs_unfenced = INTEL_INFO(i915)->unfenced_needs_alignment;
cache->node.allocated = false;
cache->ce = NULL;
cache->rq = NULL;
cache->rq_size = 0;
}
@ -1168,7 +1173,7 @@ static int __reloc_gpu_alloc(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
if (err)
goto err_unmap;
rq = i915_request_create(eb->context);
rq = intel_context_create_request(cache->ce);
if (IS_ERR(rq)) {
err = PTR_ERR(rq);
goto err_unpin;
@ -1239,6 +1244,29 @@ static u32 *reloc_gpu(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
if (!intel_engine_can_store_dword(eb->engine))
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
if (!cache->ce) {
struct intel_context *ce;
/*
* The CS pre-parser can pre-fetch commands across
* memory sync points and starting gen12 it is able to
* pre-fetch across BB_START and BB_END boundaries
* (within the same context). We therefore use a
* separate context gen12+ to guarantee that the reloc
* writes land before the parser gets to the target
* memory location.
*/
if (cache->gen >= 12)
ce = intel_context_create(eb->context->gem_context,
eb->engine);
else
ce = intel_context_get(eb->context);
if (IS_ERR(ce))
return ERR_CAST(ce);
cache->ce = ce;
}
err = __reloc_gpu_alloc(eb, vma, len);
if (unlikely(err))
return ERR_PTR(err);

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@ -2931,6 +2931,24 @@ static u32 *gen8_emit_fini_breadcrumb_rcs(struct i915_request *request, u32 *cs)
return gen8_emit_fini_breadcrumb_footer(request, cs);
}
/*
* Note that the CS instruction pre-parser will not stall on the breadcrumb
* flush and will continue pre-fetching the instructions after it before the
* memory sync is completed. On pre-gen12 HW, the pre-parser will stop at
* BB_START/END instructions, so, even though we might pre-fetch the pre-amble
* of the next request before the memory has been flushed, we're guaranteed that
* we won't access the batch itself too early.
* However, on gen12+ the parser can pre-fetch across the BB_START/END commands,
* so, if the current request is modifying an instruction in the next request on
* the same intel_context, we might pre-fetch and then execute the pre-update
* instruction. To avoid this, the users of self-modifying code should either
* disable the parser around the code emitting the memory writes, via a new flag
* added to MI_ARB_CHECK, or emit the writes from a different intel_context. For
* the in-kernel use-cases we've opted to use a separate context, see
* reloc_gpu() as an example.
* All the above applies only to the instructions themselves. Non-inline data
* used by the instructions is not pre-fetched.
*/
static u32 *gen11_emit_fini_breadcrumb_rcs(struct i915_request *request,
u32 *cs)
{