Am 17.02.2014 18:27, schrieb Rob Clark:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Christian K?nig
> <deathsimple at vodafone.de> wrote:
>> Am 17.02.2014 16:56, schrieb Maarten Lankhorst:
>>
>>> This type of fence can be used with hardware synchronization for simple
>>> hardware that can block execution until the condition
>>> (dma_buf[offset] - value) >= 0 has been met.
>>
>> Can't we make that just "dma_buf[offset] != 0" instead? As far as I know
>> this way it would match the definition M$ uses in their WDDM specification
>> and so make it much more likely that hardware supports it.
> well 'buf[offset] >= value' at least means the same slot can be used
> for multiple operations (with increasing values of 'value').. not sure
> if that is something people care about.
>
>> =value seems to be possible with adreno and radeon. I'm not really sure
>> about others (although I presume it as least supported for nv desktop
>> stuff). For hw that cannot do >=value, we can either have a different fence
>> implementation which uses the !=0 approach. Or change seqno-fence
>> implementation later if needed. But if someone has hw that can do !=0 but
>> not >=value, speak up now ;-)
Here! Radeon can only do >=value on the DMA and 3D engine, but not with
UVD or VCE. And for the 3D engine it means draining the pipe, which
isn't really a good idea.
Christian.
>
>> Apart from that I still don't like the idea of leaking a drivers IRQ context
>> outside of the driver, but without a proper GPU scheduler there probably
>> isn't much alternative.
> I guess it will be not uncommon scenario for gpu device to just need
> to kick display device to write a few registers for a page flip..
> probably best not to schedule a worker just for this (unless the
> signalled device otherwise needs to). I think it is better in this
> case to give the signalee some rope to hang themselves, and make it
> the responsibility of the callback to kick things off to a worker if
> needed.
>
> BR,
> -R
>
>> Christian.
>>
>>> A software fallback still has to be provided in case the fence is used
>>> with a device that doesn't support this mechanism. It is useful to expose
>>> this for graphics cards that have an op to support this.
>>>
>>> Some cards like i915 can export those, but don't have an option to wait,
>>> so they need the software fallback.
>>>
>>> I extended the original patch by Rob Clark.
>>>
>>> v1: Original
>>> v2: Renamed from bikeshed to seqno, moved into dma-fence.c since
>>> not much was left of the file. Lots of documentation added.
>>> v3: Use fence_ops instead of custom callbacks. Moved to own file
>>> to avoid circular dependency between dma-buf.h and fence.h
>>> v4: Add spinlock pointer to seqno_fence_init
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 1
>>> drivers/base/fence.c | 50 +++++++++++++
>>> include/linux/seqno-fence.h | 109
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 160 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/seqno-fence.h
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
>>> b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
>>> index 7a0c9ddb4818..8c85c20942c2 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
>>> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
>>> @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
>>> !Edrivers/base/dma-buf.c
>>> !Edrivers/base/fence.c
>>> !Iinclude/linux/fence.h
>>> +!Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h
>>> !Edrivers/base/reservation.c
>>> !Iinclude/linux/reservation.h
>>> !Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/fence.c b/drivers/base/fence.c
>>> index 12df2bf62034..cd0937127a89 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/fence.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/fence.c
>>> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>>> #include <linux/export.h>
>>> #include <linux/atomic.h>
>>> #include <linux/fence.h>
>>> +#include <linux/seqno-fence.h>
>>> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>>> #include <trace/events/fence.h>
>>> @@ -413,3 +414,52 @@ __fence_init(struct fence *fence, const struct
>>> fence_ops *ops,
>>> trace_fence_init(fence);
>>> }
>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fence_init);
>>> +
>>> +static const char *seqno_fence_get_driver_name(struct fence *fence) {
>>> + struct seqno_fence *seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> + return seqno_fence->ops->get_driver_name(fence);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static const char *seqno_fence_get_timeline_name(struct fence *fence) {
>>> + struct seqno_fence *seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> + return seqno_fence->ops->get_timeline_name(fence);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static bool seqno_enable_signaling(struct fence *fence)
>>> +{
>>> + struct seqno_fence *seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> + return seqno_fence->ops->enable_signaling(fence);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static bool seqno_signaled(struct fence *fence)
>>> +{
>>> + struct seqno_fence *seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> + return seqno_fence->ops->signaled &&
>>> seqno_fence->ops->signaled(fence);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void seqno_release(struct fence *fence)
>>> +{
>>> + struct seqno_fence *f = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> +
>>> + dma_buf_put(f->sync_buf);
>>> + if (f->ops->release)
>>> + f->ops->release(fence);
>>> + else
>>> + kfree(f);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static long seqno_wait(struct fence *fence, bool intr, signed long
>>> timeout)
>>> +{
>>> + struct seqno_fence *f = to_seqno_fence(fence);
>>> + return f->ops->wait(fence, intr, timeout);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +const struct fence_ops seqno_fence_ops = {
>>> + .get_driver_name = seqno_fence_get_driver_name,
>>> + .get_timeline_name = seqno_fence_get_timeline_name,
>>> + .enable_signaling = seqno_enable_signaling,
>>> + .signaled = seqno_signaled,
>>> + .wait = seqno_wait,
>>> + .release = seqno_release,
>>> +};
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(seqno_fence_ops);
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/seqno-fence.h b/include/linux/seqno-fence.h
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..952f7909128c
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/include/linux/seqno-fence.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * seqno-fence, using a dma-buf to synchronize fencing
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright (C) 2012 Texas Instruments
>>> + * Copyright (C) 2012 Canonical Ltd
>>> + * Authors:
>>> + * Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>>> + * Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>> it
>>> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>>> published by
>>> + * the Free Software Foundation.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>>> WITHOUT
>>> + * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
>>> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
>>> for
>>> + * more details.
>>> + *
>>> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>> along with
>>> + * this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +#ifndef __LINUX_SEQNO_FENCE_H
>>> +#define __LINUX_SEQNO_FENCE_H
>>> +
>>> +#include <linux/fence.h>
>>> +#include <linux/dma-buf.h>
>>> +
>>> +struct seqno_fence {
>>> + struct fence base;
>>> +
>>> + const struct fence_ops *ops;
>>> + struct dma_buf *sync_buf;
>>> + uint32_t seqno_ofs;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +extern const struct fence_ops seqno_fence_ops;
>>> +
>>> +/**
>>> + * to_seqno_fence - cast a fence to a seqno_fence
>>> + * @fence: fence to cast to a seqno_fence
>>> + *
>>> + * Returns NULL if the fence is not a seqno_fence,
>>> + * or the seqno_fence otherwise.
>>> + */
>>> +static inline struct seqno_fence *
>>> +to_seqno_fence(struct fence *fence)
>>> +{
>>> + if (fence->ops != &seqno_fence_ops)
>>> + return NULL;
>>> + return container_of(fence, struct seqno_fence, base);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/**
>>> + * seqno_fence_init - initialize a seqno fence
>>> + * @fence: seqno_fence to initialize
>>> + * @lock: pointer to spinlock to use for fence
>>> + * @sync_buf: buffer containing the memory location to signal on
>>> + * @context: the execution context this fence is a part of
>>> + * @seqno_ofs: the offset within @sync_buf
>>> + * @seqno: the sequence # to signal on
>>> + * @ops: the fence_ops for operations on this seqno fence
>>> + *
>>> + * This function initializes a struct seqno_fence with passed parameters,
>>> + * and takes a reference on sync_buf which is released on fence
>>> destruction.
>>> + *
>>> + * A seqno_fence is a dma_fence which can complete in software when
>>> + * enable_signaling is called, but it also completes when
>>> + * (s32)((sync_buf)[seqno_ofs] - seqno) >= 0 is true
>>> + *
>>> + * The seqno_fence will take a refcount on the sync_buf until it's
>>> + * destroyed, but actual lifetime of sync_buf may be longer if one of the
>>> + * callers take a reference to it.
>>> + *
>>> + * Certain hardware have instructions to insert this type of wait
>>> condition
>>> + * in the command stream, so no intervention from software would be
>>> needed.
>>> + * This type of fence can be destroyed before completed, however a
>>> reference
>>> + * on the sync_buf dma-buf can be taken. It is encouraged to re-use the
>>> same
>>> + * dma-buf for sync_buf, since mapping or unmapping the sync_buf to the
>>> + * device's vm can be expensive.
>>> + *
>>> + * It is recommended for creators of seqno_fence to call fence_signal
>>> + * before destruction. This will prevent possible issues from wraparound
>>> at
>>> + * time of issue vs time of check, since users can check
>>> fence_is_signaled
>>> + * before submitting instructions for the hardware to wait on the fence.
>>> + * However, when ops.enable_signaling is not called, it doesn't have to
>>> be
>>> + * done as soon as possible, just before there's any real danger of seqno
>>> + * wraparound.
>>> + */
>>> +static inline void
>>> +seqno_fence_init(struct seqno_fence *fence, spinlock_t *lock,
>>> + struct dma_buf *sync_buf, uint32_t context, uint32_t
>>> seqno_ofs,
>>> + uint32_t seqno, const struct fence_ops *ops)
>>> +{
>>> + BUG_ON(!fence || !sync_buf || !ops);
>>> + BUG_ON(!ops->wait || !ops->enable_signaling ||
>>> !ops->get_driver_name || !ops->get_timeline_name);
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * ops is used in __fence_init for get_driver_name, so needs to be
>>> + * initialized first
>>> + */
>>> + fence->ops = ops;
>>> + __fence_init(&fence->base, &seqno_fence_ops, lock, context,
>>> seqno);
>>> + get_dma_buf(sync_buf);
>>> + fence->sync_buf = sync_buf;
>>> + fence->seqno_ofs = seqno_ofs;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +#endif /* __LINUX_SEQNO_FENCE_H */
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