On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:37:42PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> >>Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:58:28PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> >>>>Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>>>>On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:30:24PM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> >>>>>>Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>>>>>>Thomas i think i addressed your concern here, the ttm_bo_validate
> >>>>>>>didn't needed a new argument or i did not understand what was
> >>>>>>>necessary beside no_wait. In this patchset we check the value
> >>>>>>>of callback in case of EBUSY (call set_need_resched) or ERESTARTSYS
> >>>>>>>we return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE.
> >>>>>>Well, if we from the fault callback call any function that might
> >>>>>>call ttm_bo_reserve or ttm_bo_reserve_locked, we must make sure
> >>>>>>that we never wait, but return -EBUSY all the way back to the
> >>>>>>fault function. Such a case may be ttm_bo_validate that calls
> >>>>>>ttm_bo_evict_first, or something causing a swapout...
> >>>>>>ttm_bo_validate currently doesn't have that functionality,
> >>>>>>because @no_wait just means don't wait for GPU.
> >>>>>What do you mean by never wait ? Is this GPU wait ? or CPU wait ie don't
> >>>>>use mutex or kernel code path that might sleep ?
> >>>>I mean waiting while reserving a bo. (If another thread has the bo
> >>>>reserved).
> >>>>
> >>>>>After a new review i don't think we ever wait for the GPU with the 
> >>>>>current
> >>>>>patch and as far as i can tell we will return EBUSY or ERESTART all the
> >>>>>way up.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Cheers,
> >>>>>Jerome
> >>>>If there is *no* code path trying to reserve a bo or create a
> >>>>user-space visible object from within the fault handler, it should
> >>>>be ok.
> >>>>
> >>>>/Thomas
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Did a new review again here is the call chain :
> >>>ttm_bo_move_buffer
> >>> ttm_bo_mem_space
> >>>   ttm_bo_mem_force_space
> >>>     ttm_mem_evict_first
> >>>       ttm_bo_reserve_locked (no_wait = true)
> >>Here ttm_mem_evict_fist may wait for unreserve IIRC (the -EBUSY
> >>return from ttm_bo_reserve_locked) is not propagated back.
> >
> >The code is not straightforward but if no_wait is true the
> >-EBUSY of ttm_bo_reserve_locked will be propagated back.
> 
> The point is that we don't want to set no_wait to true, because it's
> OK to wait for GPU. We want to add an extra argument
> no_wait_reserve.
> 
> /Thomas
> 

My patchset doesn't change the code there, no_wait will be true
only if it's true as argument of ttm_bo_validate from the ttm
fault callback in the driver.

Cheers,
Jerome

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