Re: [PATCH 1/3] locking/ww_mutex: cleanup lock->ctx usage in amdgpu

[Christian KÃnig]

Am 19.02.2018 um 17:43 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 05:29:46PM +0100, Christian KÃnig wrote:
> > [SNIP]
> > Well that is not a problem at all. See we don't nest trylock with normal
> > lock acquiring, cause that would indeed bypass the whole deadlock detection.
> >
> > Instead we first use ww_mutex_acquire to lock all BOs which are needed for a
> > command submission, including the deadlock detection.
> >
> > Then all additional BOs which needed to be evicted to fulfill the current
> > request are trylocked.
> Yeah it's the lock; trylock; lock combo that deadlocks. If lockdep indeed
> catches that one (and not some other recursion combo) then I think we
> don't have to worry about holding tons of trylock'ed locks.

Well I haven't explicitly tested the lock; trylock; lock case, but you 
get a warning anyway in the lock; ... anything ...; lock case.

See the first and the second lock can't use the same acquire context, 
because that isn't known down the call stack and lockdep warns about 
that quite intensively.

What is a problem is that lockdep sometimes runs out of space to keep 
track of all the trylocked mutexes, but that could have happened before 
as well if I'm not completely mistaken.

> > > If this is really what you want to do, then we need a
> > > ww_mutex_trylock_ctx, which also fills out the ctx value (so that other
> > > threads can correctly resolve deadlocks when you hold that lock while
> > > trying to grab additional locks). In which case you really don't need the
> > > task pointer.
> > Actually considered that as well, but it turned out that this is exactly
> > what I don't want.
> >
> > Cause then we wouldn't be able to distinct ww_mutex locked with a context
> > (because they are part of the submission) and without (because TTM trylocked
> > them).
> Out of curiosity, why do you need to know that?

The control flow in TTM is that when you trylocked a BO you start to 
evict it.

Now sometimes it happens that we evict it from VRAM to GTT, but then 
find that we don't have enough GTT space and need to evict something 
from there to the SYSTEM domain.

The problem is now since the reservation object is trylocked because of 
the VRAM to GTT eviction we can't lock it again because of the GTT to 
the SYSTEM domain.

> > > Yes it's a disappointment that lockdep doesn't correctly track trylocks,
> > > it just does basic sanity checks, but then drops them on the floor wrt
> > > depency tracking. Just in case you wonder why you're not getting a
> > > lockdeps splat for this. Unfortunately I don't understand lockdep enough
> > > to be able to fix this gap.
> > Sorry to disappoint you, but lockdep is indeed capable to correctly track
> > those trylocked BOs.
> >
> > Got quite a bunch of warning before I was able to resolve to this solution.
> Hm, I thought it didn't detect a lock; trylock; lock combo because the
> trylock didn't show up in the dependency stack. Maybe that got fixed
> meanwhile.

Yeah I can confirm that this indeed got fixed.

> Assuming that we indeed need both, could we split up the two use-cases for
> clarity? I.e. ww_mutex_is_owned_by_ctx, which only takes the ctx (and
> forgoes checking for a task, since that's implied) and requires a non-NULL
> ctx. And ww_mutex_is_owned_by_task, which only takes the task (and maybe
> we should limit it to trylock and _single locks, i.e. WARN_ON(lock->ctx)
> if ww-mutex debugging is enabled).
>
> Or does that hit another requirement of your use-case?

Well we could add two tests, one which only checks the context and one 
which checks that the context is NULL and then checks the mutex owner.

But to me it actually looks more like that makes it unnecessary 
complicated. The use case in amdgpu which could only check the context 
isn't performance critical.

Christian.

> -Daniel