Re: [PATCH 3/4] drm/nouveau: hook up cache sync functions

[Alexandre Courbot]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:10:57PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> From: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> [acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx: make conditional and platform-friendly]
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Perhaps having a propery commit message here would be good.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> [...]
>> +#ifdef NOUVEAU_NEED_CACHE_SYNC
>> +void
>> +nouveau_bo_sync_for_cpu(struct nouveau_bo *nvbo)
>> +{
>> +     struct nouveau_device *device;
>> +     struct ttm_tt *ttm = nvbo->bo.ttm;
>> +
>> +     device = nouveau_dev(nouveau_bdev(ttm->bdev)->dev);
>> +
>> +     if (nvbo->bo.ttm && nvbo->bo.ttm->caching_state == tt_cached)
>> +             ttm_dma_tt_cache_sync_for_cpu((struct ttm_dma_tt *)nvbo->bo.ttm,
>> +                                           nv_device_base(device));
>
> Can we be certain at this point that the struct ttm_tt is in fact a
> struct ttm_dma_tt?
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.h
> [...]
>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA)
>> +#define NOUVEAU_NEED_CACHE_SYNC
>> +#endif
>
> I know I gave this as an example myself when we discussed this offline,
> but I'm now thinking that this might actually be better off in Kconfig.
>
>> +#ifdef NOUVEAU_NEED_CACHE_SYNC
>> +void nouveau_bo_sync_for_cpu(struct nouveau_bo *);
>> +void nouveau_bo_sync_for_device(struct nouveau_bo *);
>> +#else
>> +static inline void
>> +nouveau_bo_sync_for_cpu(struct nouveau_bo *)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void
>> +nouveau_bo_sync_for_device(struct nouveau_bo *)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +
>
> There's a gratuituous blank line here.

Fixed.

>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
>> index c90c0dc0afe8..b7e42fdc9634 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
>> @@ -897,7 +897,13 @@ nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>>       ret = ttm_bo_wait(&nvbo->bo, true, true, no_wait);
>>       spin_unlock(&nvbo->bo.bdev->fence_lock);
>>       drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked(gem);
>> -     return ret;
>> +
>> +     if (ret)
>> +             return ret;
>> +
>> +     nouveau_bo_sync_for_cpu(nvbo);
>> +
>> +     return 0;
>>  }
>
> This could be rewritten as:
>
>         if (!ret)
>                 nouveau_bo_sync_for_cpu(nvbo);
>
>         return ret;
>
> Which would be slightly shorter.

I prefer to have a clear, easy to read code flow here by keeping
error-handling within conditions (and not the other way round). This
kind of optimization is very well done by the compiler.

>
> On second thought, perhaps part of nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep() could be
> refactored into a separate function to make this more symmetric. If we
> put that in nouveau_bo.c and name it nouveau_bo_wait() for example, the
> dummies can go away and both nouveau_bo_sync_for_{cpu,device}() can be
> made static. I also think that's cleaner because it has both variants of
> the nouveau_bo_sync_for_*() calls in the same file.

Yep, agreed. I will give it a try in the next version of the series.

Thanks,
Alex.
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