Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] RFC: dma-buf: Add an API for importing and exporting sync files (v4) | From | Christian König <> | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:18:13 +0100 |
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Am 11.03.20 um 04:43 schrieb Jason Ekstrand: > Explicit synchronization is the future. At least, that seems to be what > most userspace APIs are agreeing on at this point. However, most of our > Linux APIs (both userspace and kernel UAPI) are currently built around > implicit synchronization with dma-buf. While work is ongoing to change > many of the userspace APIs and protocols to an explicit synchronization > model, switching over piecemeal is difficult due to the number of > potential components involved. On the kernel side, many drivers use > dma-buf including GPU (3D/compute), display, v4l, and others. In > userspace, we have X11, several Wayland compositors, 3D drivers, compute > drivers (OpenCL etc.), media encode/decode, and the list goes on. > > This patch provides a path forward by allowing userspace to manually > manage the fences attached to a dma-buf. Alternatively, one can think > of this as making dma-buf's implicit synchronization simply a carrier > for an explicit fence. This is accomplished by adding two IOCTLs to > dma-buf for importing and exporting a sync file to/from the dma-buf. > This way a userspace component which is uses explicit synchronization, > such as a Vulkan driver, can manually set the write fence on a buffer > before handing it off to an implicitly synchronized component such as a > Wayland compositor or video encoder. In this way, each of the different > components can be upgraded to an explicit synchronization model one at a > time as long as the userspace pieces connecting them are aware of it and > import/export fences at the right times. > > There is a potential race condition with this API if userspace is not > careful. A typical use case for implicit synchronization is to wait for > the dma-buf to be ready, use it, and then signal it for some other > component. Because a sync_file cannot be created until it is guaranteed > to complete in finite time, userspace can only signal the dma-buf after > it has already submitted the work which uses it to the kernel and has > received a sync_file back. There is no way to atomically submit a > wait-use-signal operation. This is not, however, really a problem with > this API so much as it is a problem with explicit synchronization > itself. The way this is typically handled is to have very explicit > ownership transfer points in the API or protocol which ensure that only > one component is using it at any given time. Both X11 (via the PRESENT > extension) and Wayland provide such ownership transfer points via > explicit present and idle messages. > > The decision was intentionally made in this patch to make the import and > export operations IOCTLs on the dma-buf itself rather than as a DRM > IOCTL. This makes it the import/export operation universal across all > components which use dma-buf including GPU, display, v4l, and others. > It also means that a userspace component can do the import/export > without access to the DRM fd which may be tricky to get in cases where > the client communicates with DRM via a userspace API such as OpenGL or > Vulkan. At a future date we may choose to add direct import/export APIs > to components such as drm_syncobj to avoid allocating a file descriptor > and going through two ioctls. However, that seems to be something of a > micro-optimization as import/export operations are likely to happen at a > rate of a few per frame of rendered or decoded video. > > v2 (Jason Ekstrand): > - Use a wrapper dma_fence_array of all fences including the new one > when importing an exclusive fence. > > v3 (Jason Ekstrand): > - Lock around setting shared fences as well as exclusive > - Mark SIGNAL_SYNC_FILE as a read-write ioctl. > - Initialize ret to 0 in dma_buf_wait_sync_file > > v4 (Jason Ekstrand): > - Use the new dma_resv_get_singleton helper > > Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net> > --- > drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h | 13 ++++- > 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c > index d4097856c86b..09973c689866 100644 > --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c > +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c > @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ > #include <linux/debugfs.h> > #include <linux/module.h> > #include <linux/seq_file.h> > +#include <linux/sync_file.h> > #include <linux/poll.h> > #include <linux/dma-resv.h> > #include <linux/mm.h> > @@ -348,6 +349,95 @@ static long dma_buf_set_name(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, const char __user *buf) > return ret; > } > > +static long dma_buf_wait_sync_file(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, > + const void __user *user_data) > +{ > + struct dma_buf_sync_file arg; > + struct dma_fence *fence; > + int ret = 0; > + > + if (copy_from_user(&arg, user_data, sizeof(arg))) > + return -EFAULT; > + > + if (arg.flags != 0 && arg.flags != DMA_BUF_SYNC_FILE_SYNC_WRITE) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + fence = sync_file_get_fence(arg.fd); > + if (!fence) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + dma_resv_lock(dmabuf->resv, NULL); > + > + if (arg.flags & DMA_BUF_SYNC_FILE_SYNC_WRITE) { > + struct dma_fence *singleton = NULL; > + ret = dma_resv_get_singleton(dmabuf->resv, fence, &singleton); > + if (!ret && singleton) > + dma_resv_add_excl_fence(dmabuf->resv, singleton); > + } else { > + dma_resv_add_shared_fence(dmabuf->resv, fence); > + }
You also need to create a singleton when adding a shared fences.
The problem is that shared fences must always signal after exclusive ones and you can't guarantee that for the fence you add here.
Regards, Christian.
> + > + dma_resv_unlock(dmabuf->resv); > + > + dma_fence_put(fence); > + > + return ret; > +} > + > +static long dma_buf_signal_sync_file(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, > + void __user *user_data) > +{ > + struct dma_buf_sync_file arg; > + struct dma_fence *fence = NULL; > + struct sync_file *sync_file; > + int fd, ret; > + > + if (copy_from_user(&arg, user_data, sizeof(arg))) > + return -EFAULT; > + > + if (arg.flags != 0 && arg.flags != DMA_BUF_SYNC_FILE_SYNC_WRITE) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + fd = get_unused_fd_flags(O_CLOEXEC); > + if (fd < 0) > + return fd; > + > + if (arg.flags & DMA_BUF_SYNC_FILE_SYNC_WRITE) { > + /* We need to include both the exclusive fence and all of > + * the shared fences in our fence. > + */ > + ret = dma_resv_get_singleton(dmabuf->resv, NULL, &fence); > + if (ret) > + goto err_put_fd; > + } else { > + fence = dma_resv_get_excl_rcu(dmabuf->resv); > + } > + > + if (!fence) > + fence = dma_fence_get_stub(); > + > + sync_file = sync_file_create(fence); > + > + dma_fence_put(fence); > + > + if (!sync_file) { > + ret = -EINVAL; > + goto err_put_fd; > + } > + > + fd_install(fd, sync_file->file); > + > + arg.fd = fd; > + if (copy_to_user(user_data, &arg, sizeof(arg))) > + return -EFAULT; > + > + return 0; > + > +err_put_fd: > + put_unused_fd(fd); > + return ret; > +} > + > static long dma_buf_ioctl(struct file *file, > unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) > { > @@ -390,6 +480,12 @@ static long dma_buf_ioctl(struct file *file, > case DMA_BUF_SET_NAME: > return dma_buf_set_name(dmabuf, (const char __user *)arg); > > + case DMA_BUF_IOCTL_WAIT_SYNC_FILE: > + return dma_buf_wait_sync_file(dmabuf, (const void __user *)arg); > + > + case DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SIGNAL_SYNC_FILE: > + return dma_buf_signal_sync_file(dmabuf, (void __user *)arg); > + > default: > return -ENOTTY; > } > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h > index dbc7092e04b5..86e07acca90c 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h > @@ -37,8 +37,17 @@ struct dma_buf_sync { > > #define DMA_BUF_NAME_LEN 32 > > +struct dma_buf_sync_file { > + __u32 flags; > + __s32 fd; > +}; > + > +#define DMA_BUF_SYNC_FILE_SYNC_WRITE (1 << 0) > + > #define DMA_BUF_BASE 'b' > -#define DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 0, struct dma_buf_sync) > -#define DMA_BUF_SET_NAME _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 1, const char *) > +#define DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 0, struct dma_buf_sync) > +#define DMA_BUF_SET_NAME _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 1, const char *) > +#define DMA_BUF_IOCTL_WAIT_SYNC_FILE _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 2, struct dma_buf_sync) > +#define DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SIGNAL_SYNC_FILE _IOWR(DMA_BUF_BASE, 3, struct dma_buf_sync) > > #endif
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