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drm/i915: Break busywaiting for requests on pending signals
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The busywait in __i915_spin_request() does not respect pending signals
and so may consume the entire timeslice for the task instead of
returning to userspace to handle the signal.

In the worst case this could cause a delay in signal processing of 20ms,
which would be a noticeable jitter in cursor tracking. If a higher
resolution signal was being used, for example to provide fairness of a
server timeslices between clients, we could expect to detect some
unfairness between clients (i.e. some windows not updating as fast as
others). This issue was noticed when inspecting a report of poor
interactivity resulting from excessively high __i915_spin_request usage.

Fixes regression from
commit 2def4ad [v4.2]
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Apr 7 16:20:41 2015 +0100

     drm/i915: Optimistically spin for the request completion

v2: Try to assess the impact of the bug

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc; "Rogozhkin, Dmitry V" <dmitry.v.rogozhkin@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
Cc: "Rantala, Valtteri" <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449833608-22125-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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Chris Wilson authored and Daniel Vetter committed Dec 18, 2015
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13 changes: 8 additions & 5 deletions drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static bool missed_irq(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
return test_bit(ring->id, &dev_priv->gpu_error.missed_irq_rings);
}

static int __i915_spin_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req)
static int __i915_spin_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req, int state)
{
unsigned long timeout;

Expand All @@ -1158,6 +1158,9 @@ static int __i915_spin_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req)
if (i915_gem_request_completed(req, true))
return 0;

if (signal_pending_state(state, current))
break;

if (time_after_eq(jiffies, timeout))
break;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1197,6 +1200,7 @@ int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
const bool irq_test_in_progress =
ACCESS_ONCE(dev_priv->gpu_error.test_irq_rings) & intel_ring_flag(ring);
int state = interruptible ? TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE : TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
unsigned long timeout_expire;
s64 before, now;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1229,7 +1233,7 @@ int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
before = ktime_get_raw_ns();

/* Optimistic spin for the next jiffie before touching IRQs */
ret = __i915_spin_request(req);
ret = __i915_spin_request(req, state);
if (ret == 0)
goto out;

Expand All @@ -1241,8 +1245,7 @@ int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
for (;;) {
struct timer_list timer;

prepare_to_wait(&ring->irq_queue, &wait,
interruptible ? TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE : TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
prepare_to_wait(&ring->irq_queue, &wait, state);

/* We need to check whether any gpu reset happened in between
* the caller grabbing the seqno and now ... */
Expand All @@ -1260,7 +1263,7 @@ int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
break;
}

if (interruptible && signal_pending(current)) {
if (signal_pending_state(state, current)) {
ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
break;
}
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