drm/i915/gem: Make context persistence optional

Our existing behaviour is to allow contexts and their GPU requests to
persist past the point of closure until the requests are complete. This
allows clients to operate in a 'fire-and-forget' manner where they can
setup a rendering pipeline and hand it over to the display server and
immediately exit. As the rendering pipeline is kept alive until
completion, the display server (or other consumer) can use the results
in the future and present them to the user.

The compute model is a little different. They have little to no buffer
sharing between processes as their kernels tend to operate on a
continuous stream, feeding the results back to the client application.
These kernels operate for an indeterminate length of time, with many
clients wishing that the kernel was always running for as long as they
keep feeding in the data, i.e. acting like a DSP.

Not all clients want this persistent "desktop" behaviour and would prefer
that the contexts are cleaned up immediately upon closure. This ensures
that when clients are run without hangchecking (e.g. for compute kernels
of indeterminate runtime), any GPU hang or other unexpected workloads
are terminated with the process and does not continue to hog resources.

The default behaviour for new contexts is the legacy persistence mode,
as some desktop applications are dependent upon the existing behaviour.
New clients will have to opt in to immediate cleanup on context
closure. If the hangchecking modparam is disabled, so is persistent
context support -- all contexts will be terminated on closure.

We expect this behaviour change to be welcomed by compute users, who
have often been caught between a rock and a hard place. They disable
hangchecking to avoid their kernels being "unfairly" declared hung, but
have also experienced true hangs that the system was then unable to
clean up. Naturally, this leads to bug reports.

Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_persistence
Link: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/pull/228
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191029202338.8841-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
index 414fc55c9dd0..cbdf2fb32636 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -438,12 +438,39 @@ static void context_close(struct i915_gem_context *ctx)
 	 * case we opt to forcibly kill off all remaining requests on
 	 * context close.
 	 */
-	if (!i915_modparams.enable_hangcheck)
+	if (!i915_gem_context_is_persistent(ctx) ||
+	    !i915_modparams.enable_hangcheck)
 		kill_context(ctx);
 
 	i915_gem_context_put(ctx);
 }
 
+static int __context_set_persistence(struct i915_gem_context *ctx, bool state)
+{
+	if (i915_gem_context_is_persistent(ctx) == state)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (state) {
+		/*
+		 * Only contexts that are short-lived [that will expire or be
+		 * reset] are allowed to survive past termination. We require
+		 * hangcheck to ensure that the persistent requests are healthy.
+		 */
+		if (!i915_modparams.enable_hangcheck)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		i915_gem_context_set_persistence(ctx);
+	} else {
+		/* To cancel a context we use "preempt-to-idle" */
+		if (!(ctx->i915->caps.scheduler & I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_PREEMPTION))
+			return -ENODEV;
+
+		i915_gem_context_clear_persistence(ctx);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct i915_gem_context *
 __create_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 {
@@ -478,6 +505,7 @@ __create_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 
 	i915_gem_context_set_bannable(ctx);
 	i915_gem_context_set_recoverable(ctx);
+	__context_set_persistence(ctx, true /* cgroup hook? */);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ctx->hang_timestamp); i++)
 		ctx->hang_timestamp[i] = jiffies - CONTEXT_FAST_HANG_JIFFIES;
@@ -634,6 +662,7 @@ i915_gem_context_create_kernel(struct drm_i915_private *i915, int prio)
 		return ctx;
 
 	i915_gem_context_clear_bannable(ctx);
+	i915_gem_context_set_persistence(ctx);
 	ctx->sched.priority = I915_USER_PRIORITY(prio);
 
 	GEM_BUG_ON(!i915_gem_context_is_kernel(ctx));
@@ -1744,6 +1773,16 @@ err_free:
 	return err;
 }
 
+static int
+set_persistence(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
+		const struct drm_i915_gem_context_param *args)
+{
+	if (args->size)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return __context_set_persistence(ctx, args->value);
+}
+
 static int ctx_setparam(struct drm_i915_file_private *fpriv,
 			struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
 			struct drm_i915_gem_context_param *args)
@@ -1821,6 +1860,10 @@ static int ctx_setparam(struct drm_i915_file_private *fpriv,
 		ret = set_engines(ctx, args);
 		break;
 
+	case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PERSISTENCE:
+		ret = set_persistence(ctx, args);
+		break;
+
 	case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_BAN_PERIOD:
 	default:
 		ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -2273,6 +2316,11 @@ int i915_gem_context_getparam_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 		ret = get_engines(ctx, args);
 		break;
 
+	case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PERSISTENCE:
+		args->size = 0;
+		args->value = i915_gem_context_is_persistent(ctx);
+		break;
+
 	case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_BAN_PERIOD:
 	default:
 		ret = -EINVAL;