[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix takedown in move_notify

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com
Mon Dec 10 10:15:01 PST 2012


Op 10-12-12 17:39, Emil Velikov schreef:
> On 21/11/12 13:15, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> move_notify is called by ttm after the the object is idle and about
>> to be destroyed. Clean up the vm list properly in that case.
>>
>> This is not a problem right now, since the list should already be
>> empty, but if it wasn't empty, vm_put was not called which leads to
>> random corruption later.
>>
>> With this fix, nouveau_gem_object_close can be safely changed to a noop,
>> forcing the vm bindings to be removed when the original object is. This
>> is not done in this patch since it may lead to the object staying mapped
>> in the vm space until the gem object refcount drops to 0. This shouldn't
>> be a big issue however.
>>
>> If we choose to do so does allow us to use ttm's delayed destruction
>> mechanism to unmap vm after object is idle, resulting in ioread32 no
>> longer taking up 30% of cpu in Team Fortress 2 if I don't do the vma
>> unmap in nouveau_gem_object_close.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>
>>
> Hi Maarten
>
> I've noticed ioread32 of up-to 40% on of cpu my system. With your patch
> if goes down to ~3% with no side effects. Frame-rate appears to be
> slightly improved, although it's hard to say.
>
> Is there any reason for holding this patch ?
> For what it's worth you can add
>
> Tested-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
Well 2 reasons..

1) In the current form, you're guaranteed to cause memory corruption on forced client takedown. Locking needs more thought.
The warns you get are very real errors. ;-)

>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
>> index 35ac57f..e8a47f0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
>> @@ -1139,12 +1139,22 @@ nouveau_bo_move_ntfy(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct ttm_mem_reg *new_mem)
>>  	if (bo->destroy != nouveau_bo_del_ttm)
>>  		return;
>>  
>> +	if (!new_mem) {
>> +		while (!list_empty(&nvbo->vma_list)) {
>> +			vma = list_first_entry(&nvbo->vma_list, struct nouveau_vma, head);
>> +
>> +			nouveau_vm_unmap(vma);
>> +			nouveau_vm_put(vma);
>> +			list_del(&vma->head);
2. I missed a kfree here ;-)

~Maarten


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