[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] drm/i915: Pin the ifbdev for the info->system_base GGTT mmapping

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Nov 20 06:34:34 PST 2015


A long time ago (before 3.14) we relied on a permanent pinning of the
ifbdev to lock the fb in place inside the GGTT. However, the
introduction of stealing the BIOS framebuffer and reusing its address in
the GGTT for the fbdev has muddied waters and we use an inherited fb.
However, the inherited fb is only pinned whilst it is active and we no
longer have an explicit pin for the info->system_base mmapping used by
the fbdev. The result is that after some aperture pressure the fbdev may
be evicted, but we continue to write the fbcon into the same GGTT
address - overwriting anything else that may be put into that offset.
The effect is most pronounced across suspend/resume as
intel_fbdev_set_suspend() does a full clear over the whole scanout.

v2: Only unpin the intel_fb is we allocate it. If we inherit the fb from
the BIOS, we do not own the pinned vma (except for the reference we add
in this patch for our access via info->screen_base).

v3: Finish balancing the vma pinning for the normal !preallocated case.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel at intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
index 7ccde58f8c98..7a415fe31299 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
@@ -225,6 +225,16 @@ static int intelfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
 
+	/* The fb constructor will have already pinned us (or inherited a
+	 * GGTT region from the BIOS) suitable for a scanout, so
+	 * this should just be a no-op and increment the pin count for the
+	 * fbdev mmapping. It does have a useful side-effect of validating
+	 * the pin for fbdev's use via a GGTT mmapping.
+	 */
+	ret = i915_gem_obj_ggtt_pin(obj, 0, PIN_MAPPABLE);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_unlock;
+
 	info = drm_fb_helper_alloc_fbi(helper);
 	if (IS_ERR(info)) {
 		DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate fb_info\n");
@@ -279,6 +289,12 @@ static int intelfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 		      fb->width, fb->height,
 		      i915_gem_obj_ggtt_offset(obj), obj);
 
+	/* We pin the vma for our access through info->screen_base, so
+	 * we can drop the pin we took if we created the intel_fb.
+	 */
+	if (!prealloc)
+		i915_gem_object_ggtt_unpin(obj);
+
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
 	vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(dev->pdev, info);
 	return 0;
@@ -286,7 +302,12 @@ static int intelfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 out_destroy_fbi:
 	drm_fb_helper_release_fbi(helper);
 out_unpin:
+	/* Once for info->screen_base mmaping... */
 	i915_gem_object_ggtt_unpin(obj);
+out_unlock:
+	if (!prealloc)
+		/* ...and once for the intel_fb */
+		i915_gem_object_ggtt_unpin(obj);
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -524,6 +545,8 @@ static const struct drm_fb_helper_funcs intel_fb_helper_funcs = {
 static void intel_fbdev_destroy(struct drm_device *dev,
 				struct intel_fbdev *ifbdev)
 {
+	/* Release the pinning for the info->screen_base mmaping. */
+	i915_gem_object_ggtt_unpin(ifbdev->fb->obj);
 
 	drm_fb_helper_unregister_fbi(&ifbdev->helper);
 	drm_fb_helper_release_fbi(&ifbdev->helper);
-- 
2.6.2



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