[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: split tlb_seq into per-VMHUB counters to avoid spurious MMHUB flushes

"David (Ming Qiang) Wu" <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 11:26:35 -0400
Newsgroups org.freedesktop.lists.amd-gfx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On hardware where EFC (Encode Frame Copy) is unavailable or the source
frame format requires conversion, the VA-API frontend falls back to a
GFX/compute shader blit (vl_compositor) to perform color space conversion
before VCN encode.  That blit goes through the GFX/compute ring and bumps
the VM's shared tlb_seq.  Every subsequent VCN encode job then finds
flushed_updates < tlb_seq and forces a full MMHUB TLB flush, even though
no MMHUB-relevant mappings changed.  On multi-instance VCN hardware the
same issue is compounded by the dedicated PIPE_CONTEXT_COMPUTE_ONLY
scheduling context Mesa creates.

Fix this by splitting the single tlb_seq into two counters:

  tlb_seq    - bumped only when mappings accessed by GFXHUB change
  tlb_seq_mm - bumped only when mappings accessed by MMHUB change

To know which hubs are relevant for a given PT update, add a vmhub_mask
parameter to amdgpu_vm_update_range().  The mask is derived from the set
of rings in each command submission (collected in amdgpu_cs.c and stored
in bo_va->vmhub_mask / mapping->vmhub_mask).  When vmhub_mask is 0 (BO
has never been submitted), both counters are bumped conservatively.

PDE updates and XGMI/GFX8 legacy paths bump both counters since they
affect all hubs.  The fault handler uses GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS-1,0)
because the faulting hub is unknown at that point.

MMHUB VMID allocation (amdgpu_ids.c) now compares flushed_updates against
tlb_seq_mm instead of tlb_seq, so VCN VMIDs no longer force a TLB flush
when only GFX/compute page tables changed.

Signed-off-by: David (Ming Qiang) Wu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:Claude-Sonnet-4-6
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c     | 37 ++++++++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c    |  9 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.h |  5 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c     | 65 +++++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.h     | 32 ++++++++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c       |  5 +-
 6 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
index afc1c631d55a..33c1e9341774 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
@@ -1136,19 +1136,34 @@ static int amdgpu_cs_vm_handling(struct amdgpu_cs_parser *p)
 	 * with p->ticket. But removing it caused test regressions, so I'm
 	 * leaving it here for now.
 	 */
-	amdgpu_bo_list_for_each_entry(e, p->bo_list) {
-		bo_va = e->bo_va;
-		if (bo_va == NULL)
-			continue;
+	/* Collect vmhub bitmask for all rings in this submission */
+	{
+		uint16_t sub_vmhub_mask = 0;
 
-		r = amdgpu_vm_bo_update(adev, bo_va, false);
-		if (r)
-			return r;
+		for (i = 0; i < p->gang_size; ++i) {
+			struct amdgpu_ring *ring = amdgpu_job_ring(p->jobs[i]);
 
-		r = amdgpu_sync_fence(&p->sync, bo_va->last_pt_update,
-				      GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (r)
-			return r;
+			if (ring)
+				sub_vmhub_mask |= BIT(ring->vm_hub);
+		}
+
+		amdgpu_bo_list_for_each_entry(e, p->bo_list) {
+			bo_va = e->bo_va;
+			if (bo_va == NULL)
+				continue;
+
+			/* Track which hubs have accessed this BO for per-hub tlb_seq */
+			bo_va->vmhub_mask |= sub_vmhub_mask;
+
+			r = amdgpu_vm_bo_update(adev, bo_va, false);
+			if (r)
+				return r;
+
+			r = amdgpu_sync_fence(&p->sync, bo_va->last_pt_update,
+					      GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (r)
+				return r;
+		}
 	}
 
 	r = amdgpu_vm_handle_moved(adev, vm, &p->exec.ticket);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
index 8a2d64f0ebc3..9183569d340a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c
@@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ static int amdgpu_vmid_grab_reserved(struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 	unsigned vmhub = ring->vm_hub;
 	uint64_t fence_context = adev->fence_context + ring->idx;
 	bool needs_flush = vm->use_cpu_for_update;
-	uint64_t updates = amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm);
+	uint64_t updates = AMDGPU_IS_GFXHUB(ring->vm_hub) ?
+		amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm) : amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_mm(vm);
 	int r;
 
 	*id = vm->reserved_vmid[vmhub];
@@ -395,7 +396,8 @@ static int amdgpu_vmid_grab_used(struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 	unsigned vmhub = ring->vm_hub;
 	struct amdgpu_vmid_mgr *id_mgr = &adev->vm_manager.id_mgr[vmhub];
 	uint64_t fence_context = adev->fence_context + ring->idx;
-	uint64_t updates = amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm);
+	uint64_t updates = AMDGPU_IS_GFXHUB(ring->vm_hub) ?
+		amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm) : amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_mm(vm);
 	int r;
 
 	job->vm_needs_flush = vm->use_cpu_for_update;
@@ -492,7 +494,8 @@ int amdgpu_vmid_grab(struct amdgpu_vm *vm, struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
 
 	job->gds_switch_needed = amdgpu_vmid_gds_switch_needed(id, job);
 	if (job->vm_needs_flush) {
-		id->flushed_updates = amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm);
+		id->flushed_updates = AMDGPU_IS_GFXHUB(ring->vm_hub) ?
+			amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(vm) : amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_mm(vm);
 		dma_fence_put(id->last_flush);
 		id->last_flush = NULL;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.h
index ff11a0903499..1d6373f1d985 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.h
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ struct amdgpu_bo_va_mapping {
 	uint64_t			__subtree_last;
 	uint64_t			offset;
 	uint32_t			flags;
+	/* bitmask of VMHUB indices whose TLBs have cached this mapping's PTEs */
+	uint16_t			vmhub_mask;
 };
 
 /* User space allocated BO in a VM */
@@ -91,6 +93,9 @@ struct amdgpu_bo_va {
 
 	bool				is_xgmi;
 
+	/* bitmask of VMHUB indices that have ever submitted jobs referencing this BO */
+	uint16_t			vmhub_mask;
+
 	/*
 	 * protected by vm reservation lock
 	 * if non-zero, cannot unmap from GPU because user queues may still access it
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
index aac8ace9d7a6..b05befa1d5c0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ struct amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_struct {
 	 */
 	struct amdgpu_vm *vm;
 
+	/**
+	 * @vmhub_mask: which hub counters to increment (bitmask of VMHUB indices)
+	 */
+	uint16_t vmhub_mask;
+
 	/**
 	 * @cb: callback
 	 */
@@ -1008,8 +1013,10 @@ int amdgpu_vm_update_pdes(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
 	if (r)
 		goto error;
 
-	if (flush_tlb_needed)
+	if (flush_tlb_needed) {
 		atomic64_inc(&vm->tlb_seq);
+		atomic64_inc(&vm->tlb_seq_mm);
+	}
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &vm->kernel.needs_update,
 				 vm_status)
@@ -1031,9 +1038,25 @@ static void amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_cb(struct dma_fence *fence,
 				 struct dma_fence_cb *cb)
 {
 	struct amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_struct *tlb_cb;
+	bool any_gfx, any_mm;
+	unsigned int i;
 
 	tlb_cb = container_of(cb, typeof(*tlb_cb), cb);
-	atomic64_inc(&tlb_cb->vm->tlb_seq);
+
+	any_gfx = any_mm = false;
+	for (i = 0; i < AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS; i++) {
+		if (!(tlb_cb->vmhub_mask & BIT(i)))
+			continue;
+		if (AMDGPU_IS_GFXHUB(i))
+			any_gfx = true;
+		else
+			any_mm = true;
+	}
+	if (any_gfx)
+		atomic64_inc(&tlb_cb->vm->tlb_seq);
+	if (any_mm)
+		atomic64_inc(&tlb_cb->vm->tlb_seq_mm);
+
 	kfree(tlb_cb);
 }
 
@@ -1054,6 +1077,7 @@ amdgpu_vm_tlb_flush(struct amdgpu_vm_update_params *params,
 	struct amdgpu_vm *vm = params->vm;
 
 	tlb_cb->vm = vm;
+	tlb_cb->vmhub_mask = params->vmhub_mask;
 	if (!fence || !*fence) {
 		amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_cb(NULL, &tlb_cb->cb);
 		return;
@@ -1106,7 +1130,8 @@ amdgpu_vm_tlb_flush(struct amdgpu_vm_update_params *params,
  */
 int amdgpu_vm_update_range(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 			   bool immediate, bool unlocked, bool flush_tlb,
-			   bool allow_override, struct amdgpu_sync *sync,
+			   bool allow_override, uint16_t vmhub_mask,
+			   struct amdgpu_sync *sync,
 			   uint64_t start, uint64_t last, uint64_t flags,
 			   uint64_t offset, uint64_t vram_base,
 			   struct ttm_resource *res, dma_addr_t *pages_addr,
@@ -1129,13 +1154,20 @@ int amdgpu_vm_update_range(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 	/* Vega20+XGMI where PTEs get inadvertently cached in L2 texture cache,
 	 * heavy-weight flush TLB unconditionally.
 	 */
-	flush_tlb |= adev->gmc.xgmi.num_physical_nodes &&
-		     amdgpu_ip_version(adev, GC_HWIP, 0) == IP_VERSION(9, 4, 0);
+	if (adev->gmc.xgmi.num_physical_nodes &&
+	    amdgpu_ip_version(adev, GC_HWIP, 0) == IP_VERSION(9, 4, 0)) {
+		flush_tlb = true;
+		/* XGMI: all hubs need flushing */
+		vmhub_mask = GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * On GFX8 and older any 8 PTE block with a valid bit set enters the TLB
 	 */
-	flush_tlb |= amdgpu_ip_version(adev, GC_HWIP, 0) < IP_VERSION(9, 0, 0);
+	if (amdgpu_ip_version(adev, GC_HWIP, 0) < IP_VERSION(9, 0, 0)) {
+		flush_tlb = true;
+		vmhub_mask = GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0);
+	}
 
 	memset(&params, 0, sizeof(params));
 	params.adev = adev;
@@ -1144,6 +1176,7 @@ int amdgpu_vm_update_range(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 	params.pages_addr = pages_addr;
 	params.unlocked = unlocked;
 	params.needs_flush = flush_tlb;
+	params.vmhub_mask = vmhub_mask;
 	params.override_pte = allow_override && adev->gmc.override_pte;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&params.tlb_flush_waitlist);
 
@@ -1366,9 +1399,18 @@ int amdgpu_vm_bo_update(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_bo_va *bo_va,
 
 		trace_amdgpu_vm_bo_update(mapping);
 
+		/*
+		 * If vmhub_mask is 0, no ring has submitted a job with this BO
+		 * yet, so we don't know which hubs may have cached its PTEs.
+		 * Be conservative and bump all counters.
+		 */
 		r = amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, false, false, flush_tlb,
-					   !uncached, &sync, mapping->start,
-					   mapping->last, update_flags,
+					   !uncached,
+					   bo_va->vmhub_mask ?
+					     bo_va->vmhub_mask :
+					     GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0),
+					   &sync,
+					   mapping->start, mapping->last, update_flags,
 					   mapping->offset, vram_base, mem,
 					   pages_addr, last_update);
 		if (r)
@@ -1572,6 +1614,9 @@ int amdgpu_vm_clear_freed(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
 		list_del(&mapping->list);
 
 		r = amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, false, false, true, false,
+					   mapping->vmhub_mask ?
+					     mapping->vmhub_mask :
+					     GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0),
 					   &sync, mapping->start, mapping->last,
 					   0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, &f);
 		amdgpu_vm_free_mapping(adev, vm, mapping, f);
@@ -1989,6 +2034,8 @@ int amdgpu_vm_bo_unmap(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
 
 	list_del(&mapping->list);
 	amdgpu_vm_it_remove(mapping, &vm->va);
+	/* Copy hub mask before clearing bo_va pointer (freed list loses the link) */
+	mapping->vmhub_mask = bo_va->vmhub_mask;
 	mapping->bo_va = NULL;
 	trace_amdgpu_vm_bo_unmap(bo_va, mapping);
 
@@ -2212,6 +2259,7 @@ void amdgpu_vm_bo_del(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(mapping, next, &bo_va->valids, list) {
 		list_del(&mapping->list);
 		amdgpu_vm_it_remove(mapping, &vm->va);
+		mapping->vmhub_mask = bo_va->vmhub_mask;
 		mapping->bo_va = NULL;
 		trace_amdgpu_vm_bo_unmap(bo_va, mapping);
 		list_add(&mapping->list, &vm->freed);
@@ -3048,6 +3096,7 @@ bool amdgpu_vm_handle_fault(struct amdgpu_device *adev, u32 pasid,
 	}
 
 	r = amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, true, false, false, false,
+				   GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0),
 				   NULL, addr, addr, flags, value, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 	if (r)
 		goto error_unlock;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.h
index 2f8234560764..deeb43a7ef86 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.h
@@ -313,6 +313,11 @@ struct amdgpu_vm_update_params {
 	 */
 	bool needs_flush;
 
+	/**
+	 * @vmhub_mask: bitmask of VMHUB indices whose tlb_seq counters to bump
+	 */
+	uint16_t vmhub_mask;
+
 	/**
 	 * @override_pte: true for memory that is not uncached and gmc override function is
 	 * implemented to allow MTYPE to be overridden for NUMA local memory.
@@ -403,6 +408,8 @@ struct amdgpu_vm {
 
 	/* Last finished delayed update */
 	atomic64_t		tlb_seq;
+	/* Separate TLB flush sequence for MMHUB rings (VCN/JPEG/VPE) */
+	atomic64_t		tlb_seq_mm;
 	struct dma_fence	*last_tlb_flush;
 	atomic64_t		kfd_last_flushed_seq;
 	uint64_t		tlb_fence_context;
@@ -528,7 +535,8 @@ void amdgpu_vm_bo_base_init(struct amdgpu_vm_bo_base *base,
 			    struct amdgpu_vm *vm, struct amdgpu_bo *bo);
 int amdgpu_vm_update_range(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 			   bool immediate, bool unlocked, bool flush_tlb,
-			   bool allow_override, struct amdgpu_sync *sync,
+			   bool allow_override, uint16_t vmhub_mask,
+			   struct amdgpu_sync *sync,
 			   uint64_t start, uint64_t last, uint64_t flags,
 			   uint64_t offset, uint64_t vram_base,
 			   struct ttm_resource *res, dma_addr_t *pages_addr,
@@ -649,6 +657,28 @@ static inline uint64_t amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq(struct amdgpu_vm *vm)
 	return atomic64_read(&vm->tlb_seq);
 }
 
+/**
+ * amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_mm - return MMHUB-specific tlb flush sequence number
+ * @vm: the amdgpu_vm structure to query
+ *
+ * Returns the tlb flush sequence number for MMHUB rings (VCN/JPEG/VPE).
+ * Only bumped when mappings accessed by MMHUB engines change.
+ */
+static inline uint64_t amdgpu_vm_tlb_seq_mm(struct amdgpu_vm *vm)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	spinlock_t *lock;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	lock = dma_fence_spinlock(vm->last_tlb_flush);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+
+	return atomic64_read(&vm->tlb_seq_mm);
+}
+
 /*
  * vm eviction_lock can be taken in MMU notifiers. Make sure no reclaim-FS
  * happens while holding this lock anywhere to prevent deadlocks when
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
index 30ad10bbd47e..fb888f200f70 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
@@ -1372,7 +1372,9 @@ svm_range_unmap_from_gpu(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	return amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, false, true, true, false, NULL, gpu_start,
+	return amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, false, true, true, false,
+				      GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0),
+				      NULL, gpu_start,
 				      gpu_end, init_pte_value, 0, 0, NULL, NULL,
 				      fence);
 }
@@ -1490,6 +1492,7 @@ svm_range_map_to_gpu(struct kfd_process_device *pdd, struct svm_range *prange,
 			 pte_flags);
 
 		r = amdgpu_vm_update_range(adev, vm, false, false, flush_tlb, true,
+					   GENMASK(AMDGPU_MAX_VMHUBS - 1, 0),
 					   NULL, gpu_start, gpu_end,
 					   pte_flags,
 					   (last_start - prange->start) << PAGE_SHIFT,
-- 
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