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Replace the struct_mutex requirement for pinning the i915_vma with the local vm->mutex instead. Note that the vm->mutex is tainted by the shrinker (we require unbinding from inside fs-reclaim) and so we cannot allocate while holding that mutex. Instead we have to preallocate workers to do allocate and apply the PTE updates after we have we reserved their slot in the drm_mm (using fences to order the PTE writes with the GPU work and with later unbind). In adding the asynchronous vma binding, one subtle requirement is to avoid coupling the binding fence into the backing object->resv. That is the asynchronous binding only applies to the vma timeline itself and not to the pages as that is a more global timeline (the binding of one vma does not need to be ordered with another vma, nor does the implicit GEM fencing depend on a vma, only on writes to the backing store). Keeping the vma binding distinct from the backing store timelines is verified by a number of async gem_exec_fence and gem_exec_schedule tests. The way we do this is quite simple, we keep the fence for the vma binding separate and only wait on it as required, and never add it to the obj->resv itself. Another consequence in reducing the locking around the vma is the destruction of the vma is no longer globally serialised by struct_mutex. A natural solution would be to add a kref to i915_vma, but that requires decoupling the reference cycles, possibly by introducing a new i915_mm_pages object that is own by both obj->mm and vma->pages. However, we have not taken that route due to the overshadowing lmem/ttm discussions, and instead play a series of complicated games with trylocks to (hopefully) ensure that only one destruction path is called! v2: Add some commentary, and some helpers to reduce patch churn. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191004134015.13204-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.