[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Selectively enable self-reclaim

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:34 PM, M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave at superonline.com> wrote:
>>
>> Based on my testing, I am happy to report that the change you suggest
>> fixes the "memory corruption (segfaults) after thaw" issue for me.
>> I can't thank you enough times for this.
>
> Hey, goodie. And you're the one to be thanked - bisecting it down to
> that commit that wasn't _meant_ to have any real semantic changes
> (except for the bug-fix of racy mapping gfp-flags update) is what
> really cracked the lid on the problem.
>
>> Now, the obligatory question: Could we have this fix applied to 2.6.32,
>> 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 ?
>
> No problem, except we should first determine exactly what flags are
> the appropriate ones. My original patch was obviously not even
> compile-tested, and I actually meant for people to use GFP_HIGHUSER
> rather than __GFP_HIGHMEM. That contains all the "regular" allocation
> flags (but not the __GFP_MOVABLE, which is still just a suspicion of
> being the core reason for the problem).
>
> And the original DRM code had:
>
>   GFP_HIGHUSER |
>   __GFP_COLD |
>   __GFP_FS |
>   __GFP_RECLAIMABLE |
>   __GFP_NORETRY |
>   __GFP_NOWARN |
>   __GFP_NOMEMALLOC
>
> which is not entirely sensible (__GFP_FS is already part of
> GFP_HIGHUSER, for example), and two of the flags (NORETRY and NOWARN)
> are the ones the driver wants to do conditionally.
>
> But that still leaves the question about __GFP_COLD (probably sane),
> __GFP_RECLAIMABLE (I wonder about that one) and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC
> (usually used together with NORETRY, and I'm not at all sure it makes
> sense as a base flag).
>
> So I suspect the final patch should not look like the one you tested,
> but instead likely have
>
>   GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_COLD
>
> and possibly the __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag too instead of just the bare
> __GFP_HIGHMEM..
>
> (Well, we already had that __GFP_COLD there from before, so it's
> really about replacing __GFP_HIGHMEM with something like "GFP_HIGHUSER
> | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE").
>
> But its' great to hear that this does seem to be the underlying cause.
> If you could test with that GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE, that
> would be a good thing. After all - maybe the problem was triggered by
> some other flag than __GFP_MOVABLE, and as such, having some
> additional testing with a bigger set of allocation flags would be a
> really good thing.

I just sent a patch I tested here with GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_COLD
instead, and it resumes okay for me,

I'll play with GFP_RECLAIMABLE now,

If anyone wants to know why nobody uses hibernate, this laptop with a
4200rpm driver boots faster than the hibernate cycle.

Dave.