[RFC][PATCH v6 1/7] drm: Add a sharable drm page-pool implementation

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:57 AM Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>
> Am 09.02.21 um 13:11 schrieb Christian König:
> > [SNIP]
> >>>> +void drm_page_pool_add(struct drm_page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +     spin_lock(&pool->lock);
> >>>> +     list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pool->items);
> >>>> +     pool->count++;
> >>>> +     atomic_long_add(1 << pool->order, &total_pages);
> >>>> +     spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +     mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page),
> >>>> NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE,
> >>>> +                         1 << pool->order);
> >>> Hui what? What should that be good for?
> >> This is a carryover from the ION page pool implementation:
> >> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kernel.org%2Fpub%2Fscm%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux.git%2Ftree%2Fdrivers%2Fstaging%2Fandroid%2Fion%2Fion_page_pool.c%3Fh%3Dv5.10%23n28&data=04%7C01%7Cchristian.koenig%40amd.com%7Cc4eadb0a9cf6491d99ba08d8ca173457%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637481548325174885%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=FUjZK5NSDMUYfU7vGeE4fDU2HCF%2FYyNBwc30aoLLPQ4%3D&reserved=0
> >>
> >>
> >> My sense is it helps with the vmstat/meminfo accounting so folks can
> >> see the cached pages are shrinkable/freeable. This maybe falls under
> >> other dmabuf accounting/stats discussions, so I'm happy to remove it
> >> for now, or let the drivers using the shared page pool logic handle
> >> the accounting themselves?
>
> Intentionally separated the discussion for that here.
>
> As far as I can see this is just bluntly incorrect.
>
> Either the page is reclaimable or it is part of our pool and freeable
> through the shrinker, but never ever both.

IIRC the original motivation for counting ION pooled pages as
reclaimable was to include them into /proc/meminfo's MemAvailable
calculations. NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE defined as "reclaimable
non-slab kernel pages" seems like a good place to account for them but
I might be wrong.

>
> In the best case this just messes up the accounting, in the worst case
> it can cause memory corruption.
>
> Christian.