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, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
index e7bc2dbbb2a5..dd25636abc5b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
@@ -1172,9 +1172,13 @@ static struct i915_request *dummy_request(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	if (!rq)
 		return NULL;
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->active_list);
 	rq->engine = engine;
 
+	spin_lock_init(&rq->lock);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->fence.cb_list);
+	rq->fence.lock = &rq->lock;
+	rq->fence.ops = &i915_fence_ops;
+
 	i915_sched_node_init(&rq->sched);
 
 	/* mark this request as permanently incomplete */
@@ -1267,8 +1271,8 @@ static int live_suppress_wait_preempt(void *arg)
 				}
 
 				/* Disable NEWCLIENT promotion */
-				__i915_active_request_set(&i915_request_timeline(rq[i])->last_request,
-							  dummy);
+				__i915_active_fence_set(&i915_request_timeline(rq[i])->last_request,
+							&dummy->fence);
 				i915_request_add(rq[i]);
 			}