[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Use kvmalloc_array for allocating VRAM manager nodes array

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Jun 15 15:12:16 UTC 2018


On 2018-06-15 05:05 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 15.06.2018 um 16:27 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>> From: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
>>
>> It can be quite big, and there's no need for it to be physically
>> contiguous. This is less likely to fail under memory pressure (has
>> actually happened while running piglit).
> 
> Mhm, the last time I looked a drm_mm node had around 160 bytes, which
> means that you need to allocate more than 50MB of VRAM to fill up a 4K
> page.

I'm attaching the failure that prompted me to write this patch. It was
trying to allocate order 5, i.e. more than 16 pages / 64 KB.


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Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
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