Specifically document the new/clarified rules around how the shared fences do not have any ordering requirements against the exclusive fence.
But also document all the things a bit better, given how central struct dma_resv to dynamic buffer management the docs have been very inadequat.
- Lots more links to other pieces of the puzzle. Unfortunately ttm_buffer_object has no docs, so no links :-(
- Explain/complain a bit about dma_resv_locking_ctx(). I still don't like that one, but fixing the ttm call chains is going to be horrible. Plus we want to plug in real slowpath locking when we do that anyway.
- Main part of the patch is some actual docs for struct dma_resv.
Overall I think we still have a lot of bad naming in this area (e.g. dma_resv.fence is singular, but contains the multiple shared fences), but I think that's more indicative of how the semantics and rules are just not great.
Another thing that's real awkard is how chaining exclusive fences right now means direct dma_resv.exclusive_fence pointer access with an rcu_assign_pointer. Not so great either.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: Sumit Semwal sumit.semwal@linaro.org Cc: "Christian König" christian.koenig@amd.com Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c | 22 ++++++-- include/linux/dma-resv.h | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c index f26c71747d43..898f8d894bbd 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ * write operations) or N shared fences (read operations). The RCU * mechanism is used to protect read access to fences from locked * write-side updates. + * + * See struct dma_resv for more details. */
DEFINE_WD_CLASS(reservation_ww_class); @@ -137,7 +139,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_resv_fini); * @num_fences: number of fences we want to add * * Should be called before dma_resv_add_shared_fence(). Must - * be called with obj->lock held. + * be called with @obj locked through dma_resv_lock(). + * + * Note that the preallocated slots need to be re-reserved if @obj is unlocked + * at any time before callind dma_resv_add_shared_fence(). This is validate when + * CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is enabled. * * RETURNS * Zero for success, or -errno @@ -234,8 +240,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_resv_reset_shared_max); * @obj: the reservation object * @fence: the shared fence to add * - * Add a fence to a shared slot, obj->lock must be held, and + * Add a fence to a shared slot, @obj must be locked with dma_resv_lock(), and * dma_resv_reserve_shared() has been called. + * + * See also &dma_resv.fence for a discussion of the semantics. */ void dma_resv_add_shared_fence(struct dma_resv *obj, struct dma_fence *fence) { @@ -280,7 +288,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_resv_add_shared_fence); * @obj: the reservation object * @fence: the shared fence to add * - * Add a fence to the exclusive slot. The obj->lock must be held. + * Add a fence to the exclusive slot. @obj must be locked with dma_resv_lock(). + * Note that this function replaces all fences attached to @obj, see also + * &dma_resv.fence_excl for a discussion of the semantics. */ void dma_resv_add_excl_fence(struct dma_resv *obj, struct dma_fence *fence) { @@ -609,9 +619,11 @@ static inline int dma_resv_test_signaled_single(struct dma_fence *passed_fence) * fence * * Callers are not required to hold specific locks, but maybe hold - * dma_resv_lock() already + * dma_resv_lock() already. + * * RETURNS - * true if all fences signaled, else false + * + * True if all fences signaled, else false. */ bool dma_resv_test_signaled(struct dma_resv *obj, bool test_all) { diff --git a/include/linux/dma-resv.h b/include/linux/dma-resv.h index e1ca2080a1ff..c77fd54d033f 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-resv.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-resv.h @@ -62,16 +62,90 @@ struct dma_resv_list {
/** * struct dma_resv - a reservation object manages fences for a buffer - * @lock: update side lock - * @seq: sequence count for managing RCU read-side synchronization - * @fence_excl: the exclusive fence, if there is one currently - * @fence: list of current shared fences + * + * There are multiple uses for this, with sometimes slightly different rules in + * how the fence slots are used. + * + * One use is to synchronize cross-driver access to a struct dma_buf, either for + * dynamic buffer management or just to handle implicit synchronization between + * different users of the buffer in userspace. See &dma_buf.resv for a more + * in-depth discussion. + * + * The other major use is to manage access and locking within a driver in a + * buffer based memory manager. struct ttm_buffer_object is the canonical + * example here, since this is were reservation objects originated from. But use + * in drivers is spreading and some drivers also manage struct + * drm_gem_object with the same scheme. */ struct dma_resv { + /** + * @lock: + * + * Update side lock. Don't use directly, instead use the wrapper + * functions like dma_resv_lock() and dma_resv_unlock(). + * + * Drivers which use the reservation object to manage memory dynamically + * also use this lock to protect buffer object state like placement, + * allocation policies or throughout command submission. + */ struct ww_mutex lock; + + /** + * @seq: + * + * Sequence count for managing RCU read-side synchronization, allows + * read-only access to @fence_excl and @fence while ensuring we take a + * consistent snapshot. + */ seqcount_ww_mutex_t seq;
+ /** + * @fence_excl: + * + * The exclusive fence, if there is one currently. + * + * There are two was to update this fence: + * + * - First by calling dma_resv_add_excl_fence(), which replaces all + * fences attached to the reservation object. To guarantee that no + * fences are lost this new fence must signal only after all previous + * fences, both shared and exclusive, have signalled. In some cases it + * is convenient to achieve that by attaching a struct dma_fence_array + * with all the new and old fences. + * + * - Alternatively the fence can be set directly, which leaves the + * shared fences unchanged. To guarantee that no fences are lost this + * new fence must signale only after the previous exclusive fence has + * singalled. Since the shared fences are staying intact, it is not + * necessary to maintain any ordering against those. If semantically + * only a new access is added without actually treating the previous + * one as a dependency the exclusive fences can be strung together + * using struct dma_fence_chain. + * + * Note that actual semantics of what an exclusive or shared fence mean + * is defined by the user, for reservation objects shared across drivers + * see &dma_buf.resv. + */ struct dma_fence __rcu *fence_excl; + + /** + * @fence: + * + * List of current shared fences. + * + * There are no ordering constraints of shared fences against the + * exclusive fence slot. If a waiter needs to wait for all access, it + * has to wait for both set of fences to signal. + * + * A new fence is added by calling dma_resv_add_shared_fence(). Since + * this often needs to be done past the point of no return in command + * submission it cannot fail, and therefor sufficient slots need to be + * reserved by calling dma_resv_reserve_shared(). + * + * Note that actual semantics of what an exclusive or shared fence mean + * is defined by the user, for reservation objects shared across drivers + * see &dma_buf.resv. + */ struct dma_resv_list __rcu *fence; };
@@ -98,6 +172,13 @@ static inline void dma_resv_reset_shared_max(struct dma_resv *obj) {} * undefined order, a #ww_acquire_ctx is passed to unwind if a cycle * is detected. See ww_mutex_lock() and ww_acquire_init(). A reservation * object may be locked by itself by passing NULL as @ctx. + * + * When a die situation is indicated by returning -EDEADLK all locks held by + * @ctx must be unlocked and then dma_resv_lock_slow() called on @obj. + * + * Unlocked by calling dma_resv_lock(). + * + * See also dma_resv_lock_interruptible() for the interruptible variant. */ static inline int dma_resv_lock(struct dma_resv *obj, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx) @@ -119,6 +200,12 @@ static inline int dma_resv_lock(struct dma_resv *obj, * undefined order, a #ww_acquire_ctx is passed to unwind if a cycle * is detected. See ww_mutex_lock() and ww_acquire_init(). A reservation * object may be locked by itself by passing NULL as @ctx. + * + * When a die situation is indicated by returning -EDEADLK all locks held by + * @ctx must be unlocked and then dma_resv_lock_slow_interruptible() called on + * @obj. + * + * Unlocked by calling dma_resv_lock(). */ static inline int dma_resv_lock_interruptible(struct dma_resv *obj, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx) @@ -134,6 +221,8 @@ static inline int dma_resv_lock_interruptible(struct dma_resv *obj, * Acquires the reservation object after a die case. This function * will sleep until the lock becomes available. See dma_resv_lock() as * well. + * + * See also dma_resv_lock_slow_interruptible() for the interruptible variant. */ static inline void dma_resv_lock_slow(struct dma_resv *obj, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx) @@ -167,7 +256,7 @@ static inline int dma_resv_lock_slow_interruptible(struct dma_resv *obj, * if they overlap with a writer. * * Also note that since no context is provided, no deadlock protection is - * possible. + * possible, which is also not needed for a trylock. * * Returns true if the lock was acquired, false otherwise. */ @@ -193,6 +282,11 @@ static inline bool dma_resv_is_locked(struct dma_resv *obj) * * Returns the context used to lock a reservation object or NULL if no context * was used or the object is not locked at all. + * + * WARNING: This interface is pretty horrible, but TTM needs it because it + * doesn't pass the struct ww_acquire_ctx around in some very long callchains. + * Everyone else just uses it to check whether they're holding a reservation or + * not. */ static inline struct ww_acquire_ctx *dma_resv_locking_ctx(struct dma_resv *obj) {