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From: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	"Vivi, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
	"intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" 
	<intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Wang, Zhi A" <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: refactor the i915 GVT support
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:08:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210826060809.GC9942@zhen-hp.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210820141724.GA29034@lst.de>

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On 2021.08.20 16:17:24 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:29:29PM +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> > I'm working on below patch to resolve this. But I met a weird issue in
> > case when building i915 as module and also kvmgt module, it caused
> > busy wait on request_module("kvmgt") when boot, it doesn't happen if
> > building i915 into kernel. I'm not sure what could be the reason?
> 
> Luis, do you know if there is a problem with a request_module from
> a driver ->probe routine that is probably called by a module_init
> function itself?
> 
> In the meantime I'll try to reproduce it locally, but I always had a
> hard time getting useful results out of a modular i915, especially
> when combined with module paramters. (no blame on i915, just the problem
> with modules needed early on).
> 
> > 
> > > But the problem I see is that after moving gvt device model (gvt/*.c
> > > except kvmgt.c) into kvmgt module, we'll have issue with initial mmio
> > > state which current gvt relies on, that is in design supposed to get
> > > initial HW state before i915 driver has taken any operation.  Before
> > > we can ensure that, I think we may only remove MPT part first but
> > > still keep gvt device model as part of i915 with config. I'll try to
> > > split that out.
> > 
> > Sorry I misread the code that as we always request kvmgt module when
> > gvt init, so it should still apply original method that this isn't a
> > problem. Our current validation result has shown no regression as well.
> 
> What does initial mmio state mean?  This is something new to me.  But
> as you said in this mail unless I missed something very big it should
> work the same as before.
>

It's gvt internal track for all gfx mmio state, and yes with your current
change it should still work as before.

> > -static inline void intel_context_unpin(struct intel_context *ce)
> > +static inline void _intel_context_unpin(struct intel_context *ce)
> >  {
> >  	if (!ce->ops->sched_disable) {
> >  		__intel_context_do_unpin(ce, 1);
> > @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ static inline void intel_context_unpin(struct intel_context *ce)
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  }
> > +void intel_context_unpin(struct intel_context *ce);
> 
> Looking at intel_context_unpin/_intel_context_unpin is there really
> a need to have this inline to start with?  It don't see much the compiler
> could optimize by inlining it.

I'll send patch to i915 for this, and get more comments there.

thanks

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 15:53 refactor the i915 GVT support Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 01/21] drm/i915/gvt: integrate into the main Makefile Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-03  9:27   ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 02/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove module refcounting in intel_gvt_{,un}register_hypervisor Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 03/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove enum hypervisor_type Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 04/21] drm/i915/gvt: move the gvt code into kvmgt.ko Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-09 11:29   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2021-08-09 14:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 05/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove intel_gvt_ops Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 06/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove the map_gfn_to_mfn and set_trap_area ops Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 07/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove the unused from_virt_to_mfn op Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 08/21] drm/i915/gvt: merge struct kvmgt_vdev into struct intel_vgpu Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 09/21] drm/i915/gvt: merge struct kvmgt_guest_info into strut intel_vgpu Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 10/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove vgpu->handle Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 11/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->{read,write}_gpa Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 12/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->{get,put}_vfio_device Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 13/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->set_edid and ->set_opregion Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 14/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->detach_vgpu Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 15/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->inject_msi Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 16/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->is_valid_gfn Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 17/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->gfn_to_mfn Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 18/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->{enable,disable}_page_track Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 19/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize ->dma_{,un}map_guest_page Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 20/21] drm/i915/gvt: devirtualize dma_pin_guest_page Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 15:53 ` [PATCH 21/21] drm/i915/gvt: remove struct intel_gvt_mpt Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-22  9:45 ` refactor the i915 GVT support Zhenyu Wang
2021-07-22 12:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-22 10:49 ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-07-22 11:26   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-07-27 12:12     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-28 13:38       ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-07-28 13:43         ` Greg KH
2021-07-28 17:59         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-29  7:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29  7:30             ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2021-08-03  9:43             ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-03 14:30               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-04  5:26                 ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-16 17:34                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-17  1:08                     ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-17  5:22                       ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-19  8:29                         ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-19 14:43                           ` Joonas Lahtinen
2021-08-26  6:04                             ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-08-20 14:17                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-20 19:56                             ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-08-26  6:12                               ` Zhenyu Wang
2021-09-28  7:41                                 ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-09-28 14:00                                   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-28 14:35                                     ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-09-28 15:05                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-29 18:27                                         ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-09-29 18:55                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-01 13:01                                             ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-10-05  7:33                                               ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-09-30  5:24                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-26  6:08                             ` Zhenyu Wang [this message]
2021-08-04  5:40                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29  8:19           ` Wang, Zhi A
2021-07-22 13:16   ` Greg KH

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