[PATCH v2 1/3] drm/buddy: Improve contiguous memory allocation

Arunpravin Paneer Selvam arunpravin.paneerselvam at amd.com
Wed Sep 13 14:56:07 UTC 2023


On 11/09/23 03:46, Matthew Auld wrote:
> On 09/09/2023 17:09, Arunpravin Paneer Selvam wrote:
>> Problem statement: The current method roundup_power_of_two()
>> to allocate contiguous address triggers -ENOSPC in some cases
>> even though we have enough free spaces and so to help with
>> that we introduce a try harder mechanism.
>>
>> In case of -ENOSPC, the new try harder mechanism rounddown the
>> original size to power of 2 and iterating over the round down
>> sized freelist blocks to allocate the required size traversing
>> RHS and LHS.
>>
>> As part of the above new method implementation we moved
>> contiguous/alignment size computation part and trim function
>> to the drm buddy file.
>>
>> v2: Modify the alloc_range() function to return total allocated size
>>      on -ENOSPC err and traverse RHS/LHS to allocate the required
>>      size (Matthew).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arunpravin Paneer Selvam 
>> <Arunpravin.PaneerSelvam at amd.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>   include/drm/drm_buddy.h     |   6 +-
>>   2 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c
>> index 7098f125b54a..e909eed9cf60 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c
>> @@ -480,10 +480,12 @@ alloc_from_freelist(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>   static int __alloc_range(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>                struct list_head *dfs,
>>                u64 start, u64 size,
>> -             struct list_head *blocks)
>> +             struct list_head *blocks,
>> +             u64 *total_allocated_on_err)
>>   {
>>       struct drm_buddy_block *block;
>>       struct drm_buddy_block *buddy;
>> +    u64 total_allocated = 0;
>>       LIST_HEAD(allocated);
>>       u64 end;
>>       int err;
>> @@ -520,6 +522,7 @@ static int __alloc_range(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>               }
>>                 mark_allocated(block);
>> +            total_allocated += drm_buddy_block_size(mm, block);
>>               mm->avail -= drm_buddy_block_size(mm, block);
>>               list_add_tail(&block->link, &allocated);
>>               continue;
>> @@ -551,13 +554,20 @@ static int __alloc_range(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>           __drm_buddy_free(mm, block);
>>     err_free:
>> -    drm_buddy_free_list(mm, &allocated);
>> +    if (err == -ENOSPC && total_allocated_on_err) {
>> +        list_splice_tail(&allocated, blocks);
>> +        *total_allocated_on_err = total_allocated;
>> +    } else {
>> +        drm_buddy_free_list(mm, &allocated);
>> +    }
>> +
>>       return err;
>>   }
>>     static int __drm_buddy_alloc_range(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>                      u64 start,
>>                      u64 size,
>> +                   u64 *total_allocated_on_err,
>>                      struct list_head *blocks)
>>   {
>>       LIST_HEAD(dfs);
>> @@ -566,7 +576,62 @@ static int __drm_buddy_alloc_range(struct 
>> drm_buddy *mm,
>>       for (i = 0; i < mm->n_roots; ++i)
>>           list_add_tail(&mm->roots[i]->tmp_link, &dfs);
>>   -    return __alloc_range(mm, &dfs, start, size, blocks);
>> +    return __alloc_range(mm, &dfs, start, size,
>> +                 blocks, total_allocated_on_err);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int __alloc_contig_try_harder(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>> +                     u64 size,
>> +                     u64 min_block_size,
>> +                     struct list_head *blocks)
>> +{
>> +    u64 rhs_offset, lhs_offset, lhs_size, filled;
>> +    struct drm_buddy_block *block;
>> +    struct list_head *list;
>> +    LIST_HEAD(blocks_lhs);
>> +    unsigned long pages;
>> +    unsigned int order;
>> +    u64 modify_size;
>> +    int err;
>> +
>> +    modify_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(size);
>> +    pages = modify_size >> ilog2(mm->chunk_size);
>> +    order = fls(pages) - 1;
>> +    if (order == 0)
>> +        return -ENOSPC;
>> +
>> +    list = &mm->free_list[order];
>> +    if (list_empty(list))
>> +        return -ENOSPC;
>> +
>> +    list_for_each_entry_reverse(block, list, link) {
>> +        /* Allocate blocks traversing RHS */
>> +        rhs_offset = drm_buddy_block_offset(block);
>> +        err =  __drm_buddy_alloc_range(mm, rhs_offset, size,
>> +                           &filled, blocks);
>> +        if (!err || err != -ENOSPC)
>> +            return err;
>> +
>> +        lhs_size = max((size - filled), min_block_size);
>> +        if (!IS_ALIGNED(lhs_size, min_block_size))
>> +            lhs_size = round_up(lhs_size, min_block_size);
>> +
>> +        /* Allocate blocks traversing LHS */
>> +        lhs_offset = drm_buddy_block_offset(block) - lhs_size;
>> +        err =  __drm_buddy_alloc_range(mm, lhs_offset, lhs_size,
>> +                           NULL, &blocks_lhs);
>> +        if (!err) {
>> +            list_splice(&blocks_lhs, blocks);
>> +            return 0;
>
> I guess we could attempt to trim this also (could tweak the trim to 
> work on multiple nodes)? But I guess in practice should be pretty meh, 
> given that the extra rhs is hopefully not too big in the corner case 
> where the alignment doesn't fit the min_block_size?

Thanks for the review. good point. I will take a look into it.

Regards,

Arun.

>
> Anyway, for patches 1-3,
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
>
>> +        } else if (err != -ENOSPC) {
>> +            drm_buddy_free_list(mm, blocks);
>> +            return err;
>> +        }
>> +        /* Free blocks for the next iteration */
>> +        drm_buddy_free_list(mm, blocks);
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    return -ENOSPC;
>>   }
>>     /**
>> @@ -626,7 +691,7 @@ int drm_buddy_block_trim(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>         new_start = drm_buddy_block_offset(block);
>>       list_add(&block->tmp_link, &dfs);
>> -    err =  __alloc_range(mm, &dfs, new_start, new_size, blocks);
>> +    err =  __alloc_range(mm, &dfs, new_start, new_size, blocks, NULL);
>>       if (err) {
>>           mark_allocated(block);
>>           mm->avail -= drm_buddy_block_size(mm, block);
>> @@ -645,7 +710,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_buddy_block_trim);
>>    * @start: start of the allowed range for this block
>>    * @end: end of the allowed range for this block
>>    * @size: size of the allocation
>> - * @min_page_size: alignment of the allocation
>> + * @min_block_size: alignment of the allocation
>>    * @blocks: output list head to add allocated blocks
>>    * @flags: DRM_BUDDY_*_ALLOCATION flags
>>    *
>> @@ -660,23 +725,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_buddy_block_trim);
>>    */
>>   int drm_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>                  u64 start, u64 end, u64 size,
>> -               u64 min_page_size,
>> +               u64 min_block_size,
>>                  struct list_head *blocks,
>>                  unsigned long flags)
>>   {
>>       struct drm_buddy_block *block = NULL;
>> +    u64 original_size, original_min_size;
>>       unsigned int min_order, order;
>> -    unsigned long pages;
>>       LIST_HEAD(allocated);
>> +    unsigned long pages;
>>       int err;
>>         if (size < mm->chunk_size)
>>           return -EINVAL;
>>   -    if (min_page_size < mm->chunk_size)
>> +    if (min_block_size < mm->chunk_size)
>>           return -EINVAL;
>>   -    if (!is_power_of_2(min_page_size))
>> +    if (!is_power_of_2(min_block_size))
>>           return -EINVAL;
>>         if (!IS_ALIGNED(start | end | size, mm->chunk_size))
>> @@ -690,14 +756,23 @@ int drm_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>         /* Actual range allocation */
>>       if (start + size == end)
>> -        return __drm_buddy_alloc_range(mm, start, size, blocks);
>> -
>> -    if (!IS_ALIGNED(size, min_page_size))
>> -        return -EINVAL;
>> +        return __drm_buddy_alloc_range(mm, start, size, NULL, blocks);
>> +
>> +    original_size = size;
>> +    original_min_size = min_block_size;
>> +
>> +    /* Roundup the size to power of 2 */
>> +    if (flags & DRM_BUDDY_CONTIGUOUS_ALLOCATION) {
>> +        size = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
>> +        min_block_size = size;
>> +    /* Align size value to min_block_size */
>> +    } else if (!IS_ALIGNED(size, min_block_size)) {
>> +        size = round_up(size, min_block_size);
>> +    }
>>         pages = size >> ilog2(mm->chunk_size);
>>       order = fls(pages) - 1;
>> -    min_order = ilog2(min_page_size) - ilog2(mm->chunk_size);
>> +    min_order = ilog2(min_block_size) - ilog2(mm->chunk_size);
>>         do {
>>           order = min(order, (unsigned int)fls(pages) - 1);
>> @@ -716,6 +791,16 @@ int drm_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>                   break;
>>                 if (order-- == min_order) {
>> +                if (flags & DRM_BUDDY_CONTIGUOUS_ALLOCATION &&
>> +                    !(flags & DRM_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION))
>> +                    /*
>> +                     * Try contiguous block allocation through
>> +                     * try harder method
>> +                     */
>> +                    return __alloc_contig_try_harder(mm,
>> +                                     original_size,
>> +                                     original_min_size,
>> +                                     blocks);
>>                   err = -ENOSPC;
>>                   goto err_free;
>>               }
>> @@ -732,6 +817,31 @@ int drm_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>               break;
>>       } while (1);
>>   +    /* Trim the allocated block to the required size */
>> +    if (original_size != size) {
>> +        struct list_head *trim_list;
>> +        LIST_HEAD(temp);
>> +        u64 trim_size;
>> +
>> +        trim_list = &allocated;
>> +        trim_size = original_size;
>> +
>> +        if (!list_is_singular(&allocated)) {
>> +            block = list_last_entry(&allocated, typeof(*block), link);
>> +            list_move(&block->link, &temp);
>> +            trim_list = &temp;
>> +            trim_size = drm_buddy_block_size(mm, block) -
>> +                (size - original_size);
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        drm_buddy_block_trim(mm,
>> +                     trim_size,
>> +                     trim_list);
>> +
>> +        if (!list_empty(&temp))
>> +            list_splice_tail(trim_list, &allocated);
>> +    }
>> +
>>       list_splice_tail(&allocated, blocks);
>>       return 0;
>>   diff --git a/include/drm/drm_buddy.h b/include/drm/drm_buddy.h
>> index 572077ff8ae7..a5b39fc01003 100644
>> --- a/include/drm/drm_buddy.h
>> +++ b/include/drm/drm_buddy.h
>> @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
>>       start__ >= max__ || size__ > max__ - start__; \
>>   })
>>   -#define DRM_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION (1 << 0)
>> -#define DRM_BUDDY_TOPDOWN_ALLOCATION (1 << 1)
>> +#define DRM_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION        BIT(0)
>> +#define DRM_BUDDY_TOPDOWN_ALLOCATION        BIT(1)
>> +#define DRM_BUDDY_CONTIGUOUS_ALLOCATION        BIT(2)
>>     struct drm_buddy_block {
>>   #define DRM_BUDDY_HEADER_OFFSET GENMASK_ULL(63, 12)
>> @@ -155,5 +156,4 @@ void drm_buddy_print(struct drm_buddy *mm, struct 
>> drm_printer *p);
>>   void drm_buddy_block_print(struct drm_buddy *mm,
>>                  struct drm_buddy_block *block,
>>                  struct drm_printer *p);
>> -
>>   #endif


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