[PATCH 1/1] [RFC] drm/ttm: Don't init dma32_zone on 64-bit systems

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 18:07 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Am 18.02.19 um 10:47 schrieb Thomas Hellstrom:
> > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 09:20 +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> > > Another good question is also why the heck the acc_size counts
> > > towards
> > > the DMA32 zone?
> > DMA32 TTM pages are accounted in the DMA32 zone. Other pages are
> > not.
> 
> Yeah, I'm perfectly aware of this. But this is for the accounting
> size!
> 
> We have an accounting for the stuff needed additional to the pages 
> backing the BO (e.g. the page and DMA addr array).
> 
> And from the bug description it sounds like we use the DMA32 zone
> for 
> this accounting which of course is completely nonsense.

It's actually accounted in all available zones, since it would be
pretty hard to determine exactly where that memory should be accounted.
In particular if it's vmalloced. It might be DMA32, it might not. Given
the objective of stopping malicious user-space from exhausting the
DMA32 zone it was, at the time the code was written, a reasonable
approximation. With ever increasing memory sizes, there might be better
solutions?

/Thomas

> 
> Christian.
> 
> > For small persistent allocations using ttm_mem_global_alloc(), they
> > are
> > accounted also in the DMA32 zone, which may cause over-accounting
> > of
> > that zone, but that's pretty unlikely to be a big problem..
> > 
> > /Thomas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > In other words why should the internal bookkeeping pages be
> > > allocated
> > > in
> > > the DMA32 zone?
> > > 
> > > That doesn't sounds valid to me in any way,
> > > Christian.
> > > 
> > > Am 18.02.19 um 09:02 schrieb Thomas Hellstrom:
> > > > Hmm,
> > > > 
> > > > This zone was intended to stop TTM page allocations from
> > > > exhausting
> > > > the DMA32 zone. IIRC dma_alloc_coherent() uses DMA32 by
> > > > default,
> > > > which
> > > > means if we drop this check, other devices may stop functioning
> > > > unexpectedly?
> > > > 
> > > > However, in the end I'd expect the kernel page allocation
> > > > system
> > > > to
> > > > make sure there are some pages left in the DMA32 zone,
> > > > otherwise
> > > > random non-IO page allocations would also potentially exhaust
> > > > the
> > > > DMA32 zone without anybody caring, which means removing this
> > > > zone
> > > > wouldn't be any worse than whatever other subsystems may be
> > > > doing
> > > > already...
> > > > 
> > > > /Thomas
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 2/16/19 12:02 AM, Kuehling, Felix wrote:
> > > > > This is an RFC. I'm not sure this is the right solution, but
> > > > > it
> > > > > highlights the problem I'm trying to solve.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The dma32_zone limits the acc_size of all allocated BOs to
> > > > > 2GB.
> > > > > On a
> > > > > 64-bit system with hundreds of GB of system memory and GPU
> > > > > memory,
> > > > > this can become a bottle neck. We're seeing TTM memory
> > > > > allocation
> > > > > failures not because we're truly out of memory, but because
> > > > > we're
> > > > > out of space in the dma32_zone for the acc_size needed for
> > > > > our BO
> > > > > book-keeping.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
> > > > > CC: thellstrom at vmware.com
> > > > > CC: christian.koenig at amd.com
> > > > > ---
> > > > >    drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c | 4 ++--
> > > > >    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c
> > > > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c
> > > > > index f1567c3..bb05365 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c
> > > > > @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static int
> > > > > ttm_mem_init_highmem_zone(struct
> > > > > ttm_mem_global *glob,
> > > > >        glob->zones[glob->num_zones++] = zone;
> > > > >        return 0;
> > > > >    }
> > > > > -#else
> > > > > +#elifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> > > > >    static int ttm_mem_init_dma32_zone(struct ttm_mem_global
> > > > > *glob,
> > > > >                       const struct sysinfo *si)
> > > > >    {
> > > > > @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ int ttm_mem_global_init(struct
> > > > > ttm_mem_global
> > > > > *glob)
> > > > >        ret = ttm_mem_init_highmem_zone(glob, &si);
> > > > >        if (unlikely(ret != 0))
> > > > >            goto out_no_zone;
> > > > > -#else
> > > > > +#elifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> > > > >        ret = ttm_mem_init_dma32_zone(glob, &si);
> > > > >        if (unlikely(ret != 0))
> > > > >            goto out_no_zone;
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