drm/i915: Coordinate i915_active with its own mutex

Forgo the struct_mutex serialisation for i915_active, and interpose its
own mutex handling for active/retire.

This is a multi-layered sleight-of-hand. First, we had to ensure that no
active/retire callbacks accidentally inverted the mutex ordering rules,
nor assumed that they were themselves serialised by struct_mutex. More
challenging though, is the rule over updating elements of the active
rbtree. Instead of the whole i915_active now being serialised by
struct_mutex, allocations/rotations of the tree are serialised by the
i915_active.mutex and individual nodes are serialised by the caller
using the i915_timeline.mutex (we need to use nested spinlocks to
interact with the dma_fence callback lists).

The pain point here is that instead of a single mutex around execbuf, we
now have to take a mutex for active tracker (one for each vma, context,
etc) and a couple of spinlocks for each fence update. The improvement in
fine grained locking allowing for multiple concurrent clients
(eventually!) should be worth it in typical loads.

v2: Add some comments that barely elucidate anything :(

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191004134015.13204-6-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pm.c
index cca192ecff8b..0a4115c6c275 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_pm.c
@@ -16,14 +16,11 @@ static void call_idle_barriers(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	struct llist_node *node, *next;
 
 	llist_for_each_safe(node, next, llist_del_all(&engine->barrier_tasks)) {
-		struct i915_active_request *active =
+		struct dma_fence_cb *cb =
 			container_of((struct list_head *)node,
-				     typeof(*active), link);
+				     typeof(*cb), node);
 
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&active->link);
-		RCU_INIT_POINTER(active->request, NULL);
-
-		active->retire(active, NULL);
+		cb->func(NULL, cb);
 	}
 }