i915 mapping large (3MB) scatter list, hitting limits on certain IOMMUs that can only map contingous regions up to 2MB.

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Tue Jun 25 08:16:47 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:03:01AM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk at oracle.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I am using an ThinkPad X230 with an Intel HD 4000. With a stock Fedora 18
> > (3.9.6) I can get it to boot and work just fine with Xen. If I use v3.10-rc6
> > I found that i915 would halt with a
> >
> > [drm:intel_pipe_set_base] *ERROR* pin & fence failed
> > [drm:intel_crtc_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:3], err = -28
> >
> > after a bit of debugging (see patch below) I traced it down
> > to the fact that the scatter list that is provided at the end has
> > a huge (3MB) page. I am wondering if anybody knows what patch might
> > have introduced it to grab such a large memory segment?
> >
> > The other thing I am wondering is if there are some fallbacks when the
> > underlaying IOMMU can't deal with a request for contingous regions
> > that are more than 2MB?
> 
> There is no fallback afaik, but most gpu have their own mmu so they
> don't really need contiguous iommu mapping, all they need is at the
> very least being able to access all page of large object. Probably
> something we should take a look at.

They can see. It is just that the underlaying DMA was not capable
of dealing with a large chunk of the scatter gather.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jerome
> 
> > Thanks.
> >
> > From a681a4adb4738c32cb1acdf6f5161bf877816b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:17:55 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] dbug: print scatterlist.
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c:418 i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object+0x180/0x200()
> > 10 but got 0
> > Modules linked in:
> >  crc32_pclmul sdhci_pci crc32c_intel sdhci mmc_core ghash_clmulni_intel
> > CPU: 0 PID: 216 Comm: plymouthd Not tainted 3.10.0-rc6+ #16
> > Hardware name: LENOVO 2325DV4/2325DV4, BIOS G2ET86WW (2.06 ) 11/13/2012
> >  0000000000000009 ffff8801fa42d958 ffffffff816e6d89 ffff8801fa42d998
> >  ffffffff8105d2b0 ffff8801fa42d988 0000000000000000 ffff8801fb0f4d80
> >  ffffffff81c172e0 ffff8801fa76f000 000000000000000a ffff8801fa42d9f8
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<ffffffff816e6d89>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
> >  [<ffffffff8105d2b0>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
> >  [<ffffffff8105d396>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
> >  [<ffffffff8142a740>] i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object+0x180/0x200
> >  [<ffffffff81423581>] i915_gem_object_pin+0x321/0x670
> >  [<ffffffff81423951>] i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane+0x81/0x190
> >  [<ffffffff814381b5>] intel_pin_and_fence_fb_obj+0x85/0x1a0
> >  [<ffffffff8143999c>] intel_pipe_set_base+0x7c/0x220
> >  [<ffffffff814409be>] intel_crtc_set_config+0x89e/0x990
> >  [<ffffffff813ffdae>] drm_mode_set_config_internal+0x2e/0x60
> >  [<ffffffff814023ab>] drm_mode_setcrtc+0xfb/0x620
> >  [<ffffffff811850f9>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x39/0x1f0
> >  [<ffffffff813f9767>] ? drm_vm_open_locked+0x57/0x90
> >  [<ffffffff813f2e39>] drm_ioctl+0x549/0x680
> >  [<ffffffff814022b0>] ? drm_mode_setplane+0x3b0/0x3b0
> >  [<ffffffff811aef77>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x97/0x580
> >  [<ffffffff81295dca>] ? inode_has_perm.isra.32.constprop.62+0x2a/0x30
> >  [<ffffffff81297397>] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0
> >  [<ffffffff811af4f1>] SyS_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
> >  [<ffffffff816f63e7>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
> > ---[ end trace 7b6adc5450d9a9e1 ]---
> > i915 0000:00:02.0: i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object: Mapping 10 pages, mapped: 0
> > [0] virT:ffff8801fd37c000 dma: 1fd37c000, size:4096
> > [1] virT:ffff8801fd37b000 dma: 1fd37b000, size:4096
> > [2] virT:ffff8801fd37a000 dma: 1fd37a000, size:4096
> > [3] virT:ffff8801fd378000 dma: 1fd378000, size:4096
> > [4] virT:ffff8801fd131000 dma: 1fd131000, size:4096
> > [5] virT:ffff880200c36000 dma: 200c36000, size:4096
> > [6] virT:ffff8801fd1a4000 dma: 1fd1a4000, size:69632
> > [7] virT:ffff8801fd3bb000 dma: 1fd3bb000, size:4096
> > [8] virT:ffff8801fd3c0000 dma: 1fd3c0000, size:262144
> > [9] virT:ffff8801f9400000 dma: 1f9400000, size:3866624
> > [drm] 3011: ret:-28
> > [drm] 3540: ret:-28
> > [drm] 3364: ret:-28
> > [drm:intel_pin_and_fence_fb_obj] *ERROR* i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane failed: -28
> > [drm:intel_pipe_set_base] *ERROR* pin & fence failed
> > [drm:intel_crtc_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC:3], err = -28
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c     |  6 ++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> > index 8411942..141c6fb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> > @@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ module_param_named(coherent, use_coherent, int, 0600);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_coherent,
> >                  "Use coherent DMA API calls (default: false)");
> >
> > +int i915_sgl __read_mostly = 0;
> > +module_param_named(sgl, i915_sgl, int, 0600);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(sgl,
> > +                "Print scatterlist SG's when DMA mapping them (default: false)");
> > +
> > +
> >  static struct drm_driver driver;
> >  extern int intel_agp_enabled;
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > index acb3b3f..292179c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> >  #include "i915_trace.h"
> >  #include "intel_drv.h"
> >
> > +extern int use_coherent;
> >  typedef uint32_t gen6_gtt_pte_t;
> >
> >  /* PPGTT stuff */
> > @@ -403,15 +404,36 @@ void i915_gem_restore_gtt_mappings(struct drm_device *dev)
> >
> >         i915_gem_chipset_flush(dev);
> >  }
> > -
> > +extern int i915_sgl;
> >  int i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> >  {
> > +       int elem;
> >         if (obj->has_dma_mapping)
> >                 return 0;
> >
> > -       if (!dma_map_sg(&obj->base.dev->pdev->dev,
> > +       elem = dma_map_sg(&obj->base.dev->pdev->dev,
> >                         obj->pages->sgl, obj->pages->nents,
> > -                       PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL))
> > +                       PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> > +
> > +       WARN(elem == 0, "%d but got %d", obj->pages->nents, elem);
> > +
> > +       if (i915_sgl && obj->pages && obj->pages->sgl) {
> > +               int i;
> > +               struct scatterlist *s;
> > +
> > +               if (obj->base.dev) {
> > +                       dev_info(&obj->base.dev->pdev->dev, "%s: Mapping %d pages, mapped: %d\n",
> > +                               __func__,obj->pages->nents, elem);
> > +               } else
> > +                       printk(KERN_INFO "%s: no dev, %d pages, mapped: %d\n",__func__,
> > +                               obj->pages->nents, elem);
> > +
> > +               for_each_sg(obj->pages->sgl, s, obj->pages->nents, i) {
> > +                       printk(KERN_INFO "[%d] virT:%lx dma: %lx, size:%d\n", i,
> > +                               (unsigned long)sg_virt(s), (unsigned long)sg_phys(s), s->length);
> > +               }
> > +       }
> > +       if (!elem)
> >                 return -ENOSPC;
> >
> >         return 0;
> > --
> > 1.8.1.4
> >
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