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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] drm/virtio: add uapi for in and out explicit fences
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 12:56, Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com> wrote:
> On 2018-10-31 10:38, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 19:38, Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Add a new field called fence_fd that will be used by userspace to send
> >> in-fences to the kernel and receive out-fences created by the kernel.
> >>
> >> This uapi enables virtio to take advantage of explicit synchronization of
> >> dma-bufs.
> >>
> >> There are two new flags:
> >>
> >> * VIRTGPU_EXECBUF_FENCE_FD_IN to be used when passing an in-fence fd.
> >> * VIRTGPU_EXECBUF_FENCE_FD_OUT to be used when requesting an out-fence fd
> >>
> >> The execbuffer IOCTL is now read-write to allow the userspace to read the
> >> out-fence.
> >>
> >> On error -1 should be returned in the fence_fd field.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com>
> >> ---
> >> Changes since v2:
> >> - Since exbuf-flags is a new flag, check that unsupported
> >> flags aren't set.
> >>
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c | 5 +++++
> >> include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h | 13 ++++++++++---
> >> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> >> index d01a9ed100d1..1af289b28fc4 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> >> @@ -116,9 +116,14 @@ static int virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> >> struct ww_acquire_ctx ticket;
> >> void *buf;
> >>
> >> + exbuf->fence_fd = -1;
> >> +
> > Move this after the sanity checking.
>
> Agreed. Fixed in v4
>
> >
> >> if (vgdev->has_virgl_3d == false)
> >> return -ENOSYS;
> >>
> >> + if ((exbuf->flags & ~VIRTGPU_EXECBUF_FLAGS))
> >> + return -EINVAL;
> >> +
> > I assume this did this trigger when using old userspace?
>
> No, not as far as I'm aware. This check is there to prevent userspace from
> polluting the bitspace of flag, so that all free bits can be used for new flags.
>
> As far as I understand this is pointed out by a drm driver development document
> written by danvet, which I unfortunately can't seem to find the link for at the
> moment.
>
Yes that is correct. What I was asking is:

Does a kernel with this patch, work with mesa lacking the corresponding updates?
I'd imagine things work just fine.

-Emil

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