[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Hold an object reference whilst we shrink it
Daniel Vetter
daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Sep 5 13:22:26 CEST 2013
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:28:05AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:16:13PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:45:50AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Whilst running the shrinker, we need to hold a reference as we unbind
> > > the objects, or else we may end up waiting for and retiring requests,
> > > which in turn may result in this object being freed.
> > >
> > > This is very similar to the eviction code which also has to be very
> > > careful to keep a reference to its objects as it retires and unbinds
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Another similarity, that Ben pointed out, is that as we may call
> > > retire-requests, the unbound_list is outside of our control. We must
> > > only process a single element of that list at a time, that is we can not
> > > rely on the "safe" next pointer being valid after a call to
> > > i915_vma_unbind().
> > >
> > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
> > > IP: [<ffffffffa0082892>] i915_gem_gtt_finish_object+0x68/0xbd [i915]
> > > PGD 758d3067 PUD ac0d6067 PMD 0
> > > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > > Modules linked in: dm_mod snd_hda_codec_realtek iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd lpc_ich mfd_core soundcore battery ac option usb_wwan usbserial uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core videodev i915 video button drm_kms_helper drm acpi_cpufreq mperf freq_table
> > > CPU: 1 PID: 16835 Comm: fbo-maxsize Not tainted 3.11.0-rc7_nightlytop_8fdad4_20130902_+ #7977
> > > task: ffff8800712106d0 ti: ffff880028e4a000 task.ti: ffff880028e4a000
> > > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0082892>] [<ffffffffa0082892>] i915_gem_gtt_finish_object+0x68/0xbd [i915]
> > > RSP: 0018:ffff880028e4b9e8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880145734000 RCX: ffff880145735328
> > > RDX: ffff8801457353fc RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88007597cc00
> > > RBP: ffff88007597cc00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff88014f257f00
> > > R10: ffffea0001d65f00 R11: 0000000000bba60b R12: ffff880149e5b000
> > > R13: ffff880145734001 R14: ffff88007597ccc8 R15: ffff88007597cc00
> > > FS: 00007ff5bc919740(0000) GS:ffff88014f240000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000028f4c000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
> > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > Stack:
> > > 0000000000000000 ffff88007597cc00 ffff8801440d6840 0000000000000000
> > > ffff880145734000 ffffffffa007c854 0000000000000010 ffff88007597c900
> > > 0000000000018000 00000000004a1201 ffff88007597cc60 ffffffffa007d183
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [<ffffffffa007c854>] ? i915_vma_unbind+0xe2/0x1d1 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa007d183>] ? __i915_gem_shrink+0xf1/0x162 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa007d2ee>] ? i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt+0xfa/0x303 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa00795f4>] ? i915_gem_object_get_pages+0x54/0x89 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa007cbda>] ? i915_gem_object_pin+0x238/0x5ce [i915]
> > > [<ffffffff812cba5f>] ? __sg_page_iter_next+0x2b/0x58
> > > [<ffffffffa0082056>] ? gen6_ppgtt_insert_entries+0xf2/0x114 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa007fe4b>] ? i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve_vma.isra.13+0x79/0x18d [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa008017c>] ? i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve+0x21d/0x347 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa0080bfb>] ? i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.17+0x4f3/0xe61 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa00795f4>] ? i915_gem_object_get_pages+0x54/0x89 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa007e405>] ? i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl+0x743/0x7a5 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa0081a46>] ? i915_gem_execbuffer2+0x15e/0x1e4 [i915]
> > > [<ffffffffa000e20d>] ? drm_ioctl+0x2a5/0x3c4 [drm]
> > > [<ffffffffa00818e8>] ? i915_gem_execbuffer+0x37f/0x37f [i915]
> > > [<ffffffff816f64c0>] ? __do_page_fault+0x3ab/0x449
> > > [<ffffffff810be3da>] ? do_mmap_pgoff+0x2b2/0x341
> > > [<ffffffff810e49be>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x1e/0x31
> > > [<ffffffff810e5194>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x3ad/0x3ef
> > > [<ffffffff810e5224>] ? SyS_ioctl+0x4e/0x7e
> > > [<ffffffff816f88d2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > > Code: 52 0c a0 48 c7 c6 22 30 0d a0 31 c0 e8 ef 00 f9 ff bf c6 a7 00 00 e8 90 5d 24 e1 f6 85 13 01 00 00 10 75 44 48 8b 85 18 01 00 00 <8b> 50 08 48 8b 30 49 8b 84 24 88 02 00 00 48 89 c7 48 81 c7 98
> > > RIP [<ffffffffa0082892>] i915_gem_gtt_finish_object+0x68/0xbd [i915]
> > > RSP <ffff880028e4b9e8>
> > > CR2: 0000000000000008
> > >
> > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68171
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > index fdeecae..c31e0b2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > @@ -1695,6 +1695,7 @@ static long
> > > __i915_gem_shrink(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, long target,
> > > bool purgeable_only)
> > > {
> > > + struct list_head still_bound_list;
> > > struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, *next;
> > > long count = 0;
> > >
> > > @@ -1709,23 +1710,41 @@ __i915_gem_shrink(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, long target,
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > - list_for_each_entry_safe(obj, next, &dev_priv->mm.bound_list,
> > > - global_list) {
> > > + /* As we may completely rewrite the bound list whilst unbinding
> > > + * (due to retiring requests) we have to strictly process only
> > > + * one element of the list at the time, and recheck the list
> > > + * on every iteration.
> > > + */
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&still_bound_list);
> > > + while (count < target && !list_empty(&dev_priv->mm.bound_list)) {
> > > struct i915_vma *vma, *v;
> > >
> > > + obj = list_first_entry(&dev_priv->mm.bound_list,
> > > + typeof(*obj), global_list);
> > > + list_move_tail(&obj->global_list, &still_bound_list);
> > > +
> > > if (!i915_gem_object_is_purgeable(obj) && purgeable_only)
> > > continue;
> > >
> > > + /* Hold a reference whilst we unbind this object, as we may
> > > + * end up waiting for and retiring requests, which may result
> > > + * in this object being freed.
> > > + *
> > > + * Note that the shrinker and eviction is special as they operate
> > > + * on the inactive lists which reference limbo objects.
> > > + */
> >
> > This confused me a bit (imo makes only sense with an s/inactive/active/).
> > And I think this needs a some clarification to make it clear why we don't need
> > this same trickery for the unbound list. What about this instead?
>
> I thought the "waiting for requests" was clue enough as to why this
> didn't affect the unbound list. :)
>
> > /*
> > * Hold a reference whilst we unbind this object, as we may
> > * end up waiting for and retiring requests. This might
> > * release the final reference (held by the active list)
> > * and result in the object being freed from under us.
> > * in this object being freed.
>
> ^ That's fine.
>
> > * Note that only shrinking the bound list is special
> > * since only active (and hence bound objects) can contain
> > * such limbo objects.
>
> I still want the reference to the eviction logic here though. As that is
> the other place where we perform this dance. (We used to do this in
> get_fence as well, but we rewrote that to avoid retire_requests
> instead.)
Yeah good point. I've massaged the comment a bit more and merged the
patch to -fixes.
Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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