Re: [PATCH 3/9] drm/i915: Clearing buffer objects via CPU/GTT

[Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:16:05AM +0530, ankitprasad.r.sharma@intel.com wrote:
> From: Ankitprasad Sharma <ankitprasad.r.sharma@intel.com>
> 
> This patch adds support for clearing buffer objects via CPU/GTT. This
> is particularly useful for clearing out the non shmem backed objects.
> Currently intend to use this only for buffers allocated from stolen
> region.
> 
> v2: Added kernel doc for i915_gem_clear_object(), corrected/removed
> variable assignments (Tvrtko)
> 
> v3: Map object page by page to the gtt if the pinning of the whole object
> to the ggtt fails, Corrected function name (Chris)
> 
> v4: Clear the buffer page by page, and not map the whole object in the gtt
> aperture. Use i915 wrapper function in place of drm_mm_insert_node_in_range.
> 
> Testcase: igt/gem_stolen
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ankitprasad Sharma <ankitprasad.r.sharma@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index a10b866..e195fee 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -2897,6 +2897,7 @@ int i915_gem_obj_prepare_shmem_read(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>  				    int *needs_clflush);
>  
>  int __must_check i915_gem_object_get_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj);
> +int i915_gem_object_clear(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj);
>  
>  static inline int __sg_page_count(struct scatterlist *sg)
>  {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 46c1e75..e50a91b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -5293,3 +5293,47 @@ fail:
>  	drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
>  	return ERR_PTR(ret);
>  }
> +
> +/**
> + * i915_gem_object_clear() - Clear buffer object via CPU/GTT
> + * @obj: Buffer object to be cleared
> + *
> + * Return: 0 - success, non-zero - failure
> + */
> +int i915_gem_object_clear(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> +{
> +	int ret, i;
> +	char __iomem *base;
> +	size_t size = obj->base.size;
> +	struct drm_i915_private *i915 = to_i915(obj->base.dev);
> +	struct drm_mm_node node;
> +
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&obj->base.dev->struct_mutex);
> +	memset(&node, 0, sizeof(node));
> +	ret = i915_gem_insert_node_in_range(i915, &node, 4096, 0,
> +					    0, i915->gtt.mappable_end);

I do not like this wrapper because you have no idea what it is meant to
do.

> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	i915_gem_object_pin_pages(obj);
> +	base = io_mapping_map_wc(i915->gtt.mappable, node.start);
> +	for (i = 0; i < size/PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
> +		wmb();
> +		i915->gtt.base.insert_page(&i915->gtt.base,
> +					   i915_gem_object_get_dma_address(obj, i),
> +					   node.start,
> +					   I915_CACHE_NONE, 0);
> +		wmb();
> +		memset_io(base, 0, 4096);

The barriers can just be written as:

for (;;) {
	insert_page();
	wmb();
	memset_io()
	wmb();
}
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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