From: "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>
To: thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com, dakr@kernel.org,
ecourtney@nvidia.com, matthew.brost@intel.com,
nat@pixelcluster.dev, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org,
amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Refcounting dma_resv v2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:38:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827124910.2245-1-christian.koenig@amd.com> (raw)
Hi everybody,
The idea of ref-counting dma_resv or ww_mutex came up multiple times from
different people, but so far at least I have abandoned that as to
complicated to implement considering how widely used that object is.
Thanks to AI I gave the task to refcount dma_resv to Claude Sonet 4 just
to check how horrible it would look like.
Well turns out that this is actually a cleanup we should most likely aim
for and I'm really wondering why we haven't done it like this in the
first place.
Not only resolves it a bunch of issues with dma_resv instances shared by
multiple GEM objects (we just recently had a bunch of patches for that on
the mailing list), but also allows TTM to implement it's delayed delete
handling without any zombie resurrection or similar hacks and DMA-buf to
have better contention handling on map/pin in the future.
This patch set here is now the idea full flashed out. I smoke tested it
with amdgpu, self tests and checked everything with kmemleak and of hand
it seems to work.
Patch #1 introduces an interim allocated flag to allow switching users
over to the new interface one by one. Patch #10 then removes that flag
again after everything is done.
While AI is an automated tool I distrust it to always generate the same
code. So better using a defensive approach on changing things.
Please review and comment.
Cheers,
Christian.
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 12:38 Christian König [this message]
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 01/10] dma-buf: Add reference counting to dma_resv Christian König
2026-08-27 18:39 ` Andi Shyti
2026-08-28 18:21 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-08-28 19:17 ` Matthew Brost
2026-08-28 19:34 ` Matthew Brost
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 02/10] dma-buf/tests: Convert st-dma-resv tests to use dma_resv_alloc Christian König
2026-08-27 13:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 03/10] drm/gem: Add helper for drm_gem_object resv assignment Christian König
2026-08-27 13:22 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 04/10] drm/gem: Convert drm_gem_private_object_init to return error code Christian König
2026-08-27 13:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 05/10] drm/gem: Use dynamic allocation for GEM object dma_resv Christian König
2026-08-27 13:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 06/10] drm/mode_config: Use dma_resv_alloc for lockdep annotation Christian König
2026-08-27 13:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] drm/xe: " Christian König
2026-08-27 13:04 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] drm/i915/gt: Use dma_resv_alloc for VM reservation objects Christian König
2026-08-27 13:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] drm/ttm/tests: Use dma_resv_alloc in test files Christian König
2026-08-27 13:12 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] dma-buf: Inline dma_resv_init and remove allocated flag Christian König
2026-08-27 13:31 ` sashiko-bot
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