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

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:46 AM Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
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> Am 09.02.21 um 18:33 schrieb 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%7Cdccccff8edcd4d147a5b08d8cd20cff2%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637484888114923580%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=9%2BIBC0tezSV6Ci4S3kWfW%2BQvJm4mdunn3dF6C0kyfCw%3D&reserved=0
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> >>>> 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.
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> >> As far as I can see this is just bluntly incorrect.
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> >> 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.
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> Yeah, that's what I see here as well. But exactly that is utterly nonsense.
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> Those pages are not "free" in the sense that get_free_page could return
> them directly.

Any ideas where these pages would fit better? We do want to know that
under memory pressure these pages can be made available (which is I
think what MemAvailable means).

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