On 10/11/2012 08:42 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
Anyway, if you plan to remove the fence lock and protect it with reserve, you must make sure that a waiting reserve is never done in a destruction path. I think this mostly concerns the nvidia driver.
Well I don't think any lock should ever be held during destruction time,
What I mean is, that *something* needs to protect the fence pointer. Currently it's the fence lock, and I was assuming you'd protect it with reserve. And neither TTM nor Nvidia should, when a resource is about to be freed, be forced to *block* waiting for reserve just to access the fence pointer. When and if you have a solution that fulfills those requirements, I'm ready to review it.
- no_wait_reserve is ignored if no_wait_gpu is false ttm_bo_reserve_locked can only return true if no_wait_reserve is true, but subsequently it will do a wait_unreserved if no_wait_gpu is false.
I'm planning on removing this argument and act like it is always true, since nothing on the lru list should fail to reserve currently.
Yes, since all buffers that are reserved are removed from the LRU list, there should never be a waiting reserve on them, so no_wait_reserve can be removed from ttm_mem_evict_first, ttm_bo_evict and possibly other functions in the call chain.
I suppose there will stay a small race though,
Hmm, where?
effectively unlimited callchain between some functions that all go through ttm_mem_evict_first:
/------------------------\ttm_mem_evict_first - ttm_bo_evict - -ttm_bo_mem_space - ttm_bo_mem_force_space - ttm_mem_evict_first \ ttm_bo_handle_move_mem / I'm not surprised that there was a deadlock before, it seems to me it would be pretty suicidal to ever do a blocking reserve on any of those lists, lockdep would be all over you for this.
Well, at first this may look worse than it actually is. The driver's eviction memory order determines the recursion depth and typically it's 0 or 1, since subsequent ttm_mem_evict_first should never touch the same LRU lists as the first one. What would typically happen is that a BO is evicted from VRAM to TT, and if there is no space in TT, another BO is evicted to system memory, and the chain is terminated. However a driver could set up any eviction order but that would be a BUG.
But in essence, as you say, even with a small recursion depth, a waiting reserve could cause a deadlock. But there should be no waiting reserves in the eviction path currently.
Partially true, ttm_bo_cleanup_refs is currently capable of blocking reserve. Fixing this might mean that ttm_mem_evict_first may need to become more aggressive, since it seems all the callers of this function assume that ttm_mem_evict_first can only fail if there is really nothing more to free and blocking nested would really upset lockdep and leave you open to the same deadlocks.
I can't see how the waiting reserve in ttm_bo_cleanup_refs would cause a deadlock, because the buffer about to be reserved is always *last* in a reservation sequence, and the reservation is always released (or the buffer destroyed) before trying to reserve another buffer. Technically the buffer is not looked up from a LRU list but from the delayed delete list. Could you describe such a deadlock case? (There is a bug in there, though that the reservation is not released if the buffer is no longer on the reservation list here):
if (unlikely(ret != 0) || list_empty(&bo->ddestroy)) { spin_unlock(&glob->lru_lock); return ret; }
An unexpected bonus from adding this skipping would be that the atomic lru_list removal on unreserve guarantee becomes a lot easier to drop while keeping behavior exactly the same. Only the swapout code would need to be adjusted for to try the whole list. Maybe ttm_bo_delayed_delete with remove_all = false too would change behavior slightly too, but this seems to be less likely, as it could only ever happen on delayed destruction of imported dma-buf's.
May I kindly remind you that the atomic lru_list removal stays in TTM until we've had a high level design discussion weighing it against an extended reservation object API.
Not true, ttm_bo_move_memcpy has no interruptible parameter, so it's not compatible with driver.move. The drivers that do use this function have set up their own alias that calls that function instead, so I was thinking of dropping those parameters from memcpy since they're unused and the drivers that could point their move member to it don't do it, so no point in having compatibility...
OK, then I'm OK with parameter changes in those functions.
~Maarten