Re: [PATCH 2/3] venus: Limit HFI sessions to the maximum supported

[Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:01 PM Stanimir Varbanov
<stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 11/25/20 5:46 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:12 AM Stanimir Varbanov
> > <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Currently we rely on firmware to return error when we reach the maximum
> >> supported number of sessions. But this errors are happened at reqbuf
> >> time which is a bit later. The more reasonable way looks like is to
> >> return the error on driver open.
> >>
> >> To achieve that modify hfi_session_create to return error when we reach
> >> maximum count of sessions and thus refuse open.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h      |  1 +
> >>  drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi.c       | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> >>  .../media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c    |  3 +++
> >>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
> >> index db0e6738281e..3a477fcdd3a8 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
> >> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ struct venus_format {
> >>  #define MAX_CAP_ENTRIES                32
> >>  #define MAX_ALLOC_MODE_ENTRIES 16
> >>  #define MAX_CODEC_NUM          32
> >> +#define MAX_SESSIONS           16
> >>
> >>  struct raw_formats {
> >>         u32 buftype;
> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi.c
> >> index 638ed5cfe05e..8420be6d3991 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi.c
> >> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static int wait_session_msg(struct venus_inst *inst)
> >>  int hfi_session_create(struct venus_inst *inst, const struct hfi_inst_ops *ops)
> >>  {
> >>         struct venus_core *core = inst->core;
> >> +       int ret;
> >>
> >>         if (!ops)
> >>                 return -EINVAL;
> >> @@ -183,12 +184,22 @@ int hfi_session_create(struct venus_inst *inst, const struct hfi_inst_ops *ops)
> >>         init_completion(&inst->done);
> >>         inst->ops = ops;
> >>
> >> -       mutex_lock(&core->lock);
> >> -       list_add_tail(&inst->list, &core->instances);
> >> -       atomic_inc(&core->insts_count);
> >> +       ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&core->lock);
> >> +       if (ret)
> >> +               return ret;
> >
> > Why do we change to mutex_lock_interruptible() here? This makes this
>
> Because mutex_lock_interruptible is preferable in kernel docs, but I
> agree that changing mutex_lock with mutex_lock_interruptible should be
> subject of another lock related patches. I will drop this in next patch
> version.
>
> > function return an error even though we could obtain the lock just by
> > trying a bit harder.
>
> I didn't get that. The behavior of mutex_lock_interruptible is that same
> as mutex_lock, i.e. the it will sleep to acquire the lock. The
> difference is that the sleep could be interrupted by a signal. You might
> think about mutex_trylock?

Unless that mutex can be held by someone else for a rather long time
(i.e. to the point where we may want to give priority to signals when
userspace opens the device, since that's where hfi_session_create() is
called), I am not convinced this change is necessary? It may confuse
userspace into thinking there was a serious error while there is none.
Granted, userspace should manage this case, and from what I can see
this code is correct, but I'm not sure we would gain anything by
adding this extra complexity.

>
> >
> >> +
> >> +       ret = atomic_read(&core->insts_count);
> >> +       if (ret + 1 > core->max_sessions_supported) {
> >> +               ret = -EAGAIN;
> >> +       } else {
> >> +               atomic_inc(&core->insts_count);
> >> +               list_add_tail(&inst->list, &core->instances);
> >> +               ret = 0;
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >>         mutex_unlock(&core->lock);
> >>
> >> -       return 0;
> >> +       return ret;
> >>  }
> >>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hfi_session_create);
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> >> index 363ee2a65453..52898633a8e6 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_parser.c
> >> @@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ u32 hfi_parser(struct venus_core *core, struct venus_inst *inst, void *buf,
> >>                 words_count--;
> >>         }
> >>
> >> +       if (!core->max_sessions_supported)
> >> +               core->max_sessions_supported = MAX_SESSIONS;
> >> +
> >>         parser_fini(inst, codecs, domain);
> >>
> >>         return HFI_ERR_NONE;
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >>
>
> --
> regards,
> Stan