Re: [PATCH drm-misc-next v4 4/8] drm/gpuvm: add common dma-resv per struct drm_gpuvm

[Boris Brezillon]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:34:44 +0200
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/21/23 09:39, Christian König wrote:
> > Am 20.09.23 um 16:42 schrieb Danilo Krummrich:  
> >> Provide a common dma-resv for GEM objects not being used outside of this
> >> GPU-VM. This is used in a subsequent patch to generalize dma-resv,
> >> external and evicted object handling and GEM validation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c            |  9 +++++++--
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c |  2 +-
> >>   include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h                | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> >>   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
> >> index bfea4a8a19ec..cbf4b738a16c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
> >> @@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ drm_gpuva_range_valid(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm,
> >>   /**
> >>    * drm_gpuvm_init() - initialize a &drm_gpuvm
> >>    * @gpuvm: pointer to the &drm_gpuvm to initialize
> >> + * @drm: the drivers &drm_device
> >>    * @name: the name of the GPU VA space
> >>    * @start_offset: the start offset of the GPU VA space
> >>    * @range: the size of the GPU VA space
> >> @@ -668,7 +669,7 @@ drm_gpuva_range_valid(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm,
> >>    * &name is expected to be managed by the surrounding driver structures.
> >>    */
> >>   void
> >> -drm_gpuvm_init(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm,
> >> +drm_gpuvm_init(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm, struct drm_device *drm,
> >>              const char *name,
> >>              u64 start_offset, u64 range,
> >>              u64 reserve_offset, u64 reserve_range,
> >> @@ -694,6 +695,8 @@ drm_gpuvm_init(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm,
> >>                                reserve_range)))
> >>               __drm_gpuva_insert(gpuvm, &gpuvm->kernel_alloc_node);
> >>       }
> >> +
> >> +    drm_gem_private_object_init(drm, &gpuvm->d_obj, 0);
> >>   }
> >>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gpuvm_init);
> >> @@ -713,7 +716,9 @@ drm_gpuvm_destroy(struct drm_gpuvm *gpuvm)
> >>           __drm_gpuva_remove(&gpuvm->kernel_alloc_node);
> >>       WARN(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&gpuvm->rb.tree.rb_root),
> >> -         "GPUVA tree is not empty, potentially leaking memory.");
> >> +         "GPUVA tree is not empty, potentially leaking memory.\n");
> >> +
> >> +    drm_gem_private_object_fini(&gpuvm->d_obj);
> >>   }
> >>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gpuvm_destroy);
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> >> index 6c86b64273c3..a80ac8767843 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> >> @@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ nouveau_uvmm_init(struct nouveau_uvmm *uvmm, struct nouveau_cli *cli,
> >>       uvmm->kernel_managed_addr = kernel_managed_addr;
> >>       uvmm->kernel_managed_size = kernel_managed_size;
> >> -    drm_gpuvm_init(&uvmm->base, cli->name,
> >> +    drm_gpuvm_init(&uvmm->base, cli->drm->dev, cli->name,
> >>                  NOUVEAU_VA_SPACE_START,
> >>                  NOUVEAU_VA_SPACE_END,
> >>                  kernel_managed_addr, kernel_managed_size,
> >> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h b/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
> >> index 0e802676e0a9..6666c07d7c3e 100644
> >> --- a/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
> >> +++ b/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
> >> @@ -240,14 +240,29 @@ struct drm_gpuvm {
> >>        * @ops: &drm_gpuvm_ops providing the split/merge steps to drivers
> >>        */
> >>       const struct drm_gpuvm_ops *ops;
> >> +
> >> +    /**
> >> +     * @d_obj: Dummy GEM object; used internally to pass the GPU VMs
> >> +     * dma-resv to &drm_exec. Provides the GPUVM's &dma-resv.
> >> +     */
> >> +    struct drm_gem_object d_obj;  
> > 
> > Yeah, as pointed out in the other mail that won't work like this.  
> 
> Which one? Seems that I missed it.
> 
> > 
> > The GPUVM contains GEM objects and therefore should probably have a reference to those objects.
> > 
> > When those GEM objects now use the dma-resv object embedded inside the GPUVM then they also need a reference to the GPUVM to make sure the dma-resv object won't be freed before they are freed.  
> 
> My assumption here is that GEM objects being local to a certain VM never out-live the VM. We never share it with anyone, otherwise it would be external and hence wouldn't carray the VM's dma-resv. The only references I see are from the VM itself (which is fine) and from userspace. The latter isn't a problem as long as all GEM handles are closed before the VM is destroyed on FD close.

But we don't want to rely on userspace doing the right thing (calling
GEM_CLOSE before releasing the VM), do we?

BTW, even though my private BOs have a ref to their exclusive VM, I just
ran into a bug because drm_gem_shmem_free() acquires the resv lock
(which is questionable, but that's not the topic :-)) and
I was calling vm_put(bo->exclusive_vm) before drm_gem_shmem_free(),
leading to a use-after-free when the gem->resv is acquired. This has
nothing to do with drm_gpuvm, but it proves that this sort of bug is
likely to happen if we don't pay attention.

> 
> Do I miss something? Do we have use cases where this isn't true?

The other case I can think of is GEM being v[un]map-ed (kernel
mapping) after the VM was released.

> 
> > 
> > This is a circle reference dependency.

FWIW, I solved that by having a vm_destroy() function that kills all the
mappings in a VM, which in turn releases all the refs the VM had on
private BOs. Then, it's just a matter of waiting for all private GEMs
to be destroyed to get the final steps of the VM destruction, which is
really just about releasing resources (it's called panthor_vm_release()
in my case) executed when the VM refcount drops to zero.

> > 
> > The simplest solution I can see is to let the driver provide the GEM object to use. Amdgpu uses the root page directory object for this.  
> 
> Sure, we can do that, if we see cases where VM local GEM objects can out-live the VM.
> > 
> > Apart from that I strongly think that we shouldn't let the GPUVM code create a driver GEM object. We did that in TTM for the ghost objects and it turned out to be a bad idea.  

Would that really solve the circular ref issue? I mean, if you're
taking the root page dir object as your VM resv, you still have to make
sure it outlives the private GEMs, which means, you either need
to take a ref on the object, leading to the same circular ref mess, or
you need to reset private GEMs resvs before destroying this root page
dir GEM (whose lifecyle is likely the same as your VM object which
embeds the drm_gpuvm instance).

Making it driver-specific just moves the responsibility back to drivers
(and also allows re-using an real GEM object instead of a dummy one,
but I'm not sure we care about saving a few hundreds bytes at that
point), which is a good way to not take the blame if the driver does
something wrong, but also doesn't really help people do the right thing.