Re: [PATCH 08/18] drm/amdgpu: add dma-fence annotations to atomic commit path

[Daniel Vetter]

Hi Roland & vmwgfx maintainers,

Thomas has played around with these annotations on his vmwgfx setup,
and found some issues. Apparently in the atomic_commit_tail path when
handling the dirty rectangle stuff you acquire a ttm reservation,
which is a no-go since it could deadlock with other paths - atomic
commits can produce a dma_fence.

This patch here highlights that with the new annotations, and
apparently causes a lockdep splat if you go through the dirty rect
paths (not sure if it also happens otherwise, Thomas can fill you in
with the details).

Can you pls take a look at this? I'm happy to help out with analyzing
any lockdep splats. For actual fixes Thomas is better since I don't
understand a lot of how drm/vmwgfx works internally.

Cheers, Daniel


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:12 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I need a canary in a ttm-based atomic driver to make sure the
> dma_fence_begin/end_signalling annotations actually work.
>
> Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: amd-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian KÃnig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> index bdba0bfd6df1..adabfa929f42 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
>
>  #include "ivsrcid/ivsrcid_vislands30.h"
>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
>  #include <linux/version.h>
> @@ -7320,6 +7321,9 @@ static void amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
>         struct drm_connector_state *old_con_state, *new_con_state;
>         struct dm_crtc_state *dm_old_crtc_state, *dm_new_crtc_state;
>         int crtc_disable_count = 0;
> +       bool fence_cookie;
> +
> +       fence_cookie = dma_fence_begin_signalling();
>
>         drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state(dev, state);
>
> @@ -7600,6 +7604,8 @@ static void amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *state)
>         /* Signal HW programming completion */
>         drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(state);
>
> +       dma_fence_end_signalling(fence_cookie);
> +
>         if (wait_for_vblank)
>                 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done(dev, state);
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>


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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch