Re: [PATCH v4 06/14] dma-buf/sync_file: Support (E)POLLPRI

From: Christian König
Date: Mon Feb 20 2023 - 03:32:26 EST


Am 18.02.23 um 22:15 schrieb Rob Clark:
From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Allow userspace to use the EPOLLPRI/POLLPRI flag to indicate an urgent
wait (as opposed to a "housekeeping" wait to know when to cleanup after
some work has completed). Usermode components of GPU driver stacks
often poll() on fence fd's to know when it is safe to do things like
free or reuse a buffer, but they can also poll() on a fence fd when
waiting to read back results from the GPU. The EPOLLPRI/POLLPRI flag
lets the kernel differentiate these two cases.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The code looks clean, but the different poll flags and their meaning are certainly not my field of expertise.

Feel free to add Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>, somebody with more background in this should probably take a look as well.

Regards,
Christian.

---
drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
index fb6ca1032885..c30b2085ee0a 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
@@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ static __poll_t sync_file_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
{
struct sync_file *sync_file = file->private_data;
+ /*
+ * The POLLPRI/EPOLLPRI flag can be used to signal that
+ * userspace wants the fence to signal ASAP, express this
+ * as an immediate deadline.
+ */
+ if (poll_requested_events(wait) & EPOLLPRI)
+ dma_fence_set_deadline(sync_file->fence, ktime_get());
+
poll_wait(file, &sync_file->wq, wait);
if (list_empty(&sync_file->cb.node) &&