[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Add support for stealing purgable stolen pages

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Mar 6 21:25:35 CET 2014


If we run out of stolen memory when trying to allocate an object, see if
we can reap enough purgeable objects to free up enough contiguous free
space for the allocation. This is in principle very much like evicting
objects to free up enough contiguous space in the vma when binding
a new object - and you will be forgiven for thinking that the code looks
very similar.

At the moment, we do not allow userspace to allocate objects in stolen,
so there is neither the memory pressure to trigger stolen eviction nor
any purgeable objects inside the stolen arena. However, this will change
in the near future, and so better management and defragmentation of
stolen memory will become a real issue.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Gupta, Sourab" <sourab.gupta at intel.com>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
index 13a849afe479..411a8452c918 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
@@ -446,18 +446,25 @@ cleanup:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-struct drm_i915_gem_object *
-i915_gem_object_create_stolen(struct drm_device *dev, u32 size)
+static bool mark_free(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, struct list_head *unwind)
+{
+	if (obj->stolen == NULL)
+		return false;
+
+	if (obj->madv != I915_MADV_DONTNEED)
+		return false;
+
+	list_add(&obj->obj_exec_link, unwind);
+	return drm_mm_scan_add_block(obj->stolen);
+}
+
+static struct drm_mm_node *stolen_alloc(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u32 size)
 {
-	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
-	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
 	struct drm_mm_node *stolen;
+	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
+	struct list_head unwind, evict;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!drm_mm_initialized(&dev_priv->mm.stolen))
-		return NULL;
-
-	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("creating stolen object: size=%x\n", size);
 	if (size == 0)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -467,11 +474,101 @@ i915_gem_object_create_stolen(struct drm_device *dev, u32 size)
 
 	ret = drm_mm_insert_node(&dev_priv->mm.stolen, stolen, size,
 				 4096, DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT);
-	if (ret) {
-		kfree(stolen);
-		return NULL;
+	if (ret == 0)
+		return stolen;
+
+	/* No more stolen memory available, or too fragmented.
+	 * Try evicting purgeable objects and search again.
+	 */
+
+	drm_mm_init_scan(&dev_priv->mm.stolen, size, 4096, 0);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&unwind);
+
+	list_for_each_entry(obj, &dev_priv->mm.unbound_list, global_list)
+		if (mark_free(obj, &unwind))
+			goto found;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(obj, &dev_priv->mm.bound_list, global_list)
+		if (mark_free(obj, &unwind))
+			goto found;
+
+found:
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&evict);
+	while (!list_empty(&unwind)) {
+		obj = list_first_entry(&unwind,
+				       struct drm_i915_gem_object,
+				       obj_exec_link);
+		list_del_init(&obj->obj_exec_link);
+
+		if (drm_mm_scan_remove_block(obj->stolen)) {
+			list_add(&obj->obj_exec_link, &evict);
+			drm_gem_object_reference(&obj->base);
+		}
 	}
 
+	ret = 0;
+	while (!list_empty(&evict)) {
+		obj = list_first_entry(&evict,
+				       struct drm_i915_gem_object,
+				       obj_exec_link);
+		list_del_init(&obj->obj_exec_link);
+
+		if (ret == 0) {
+			struct i915_vma *vma, *vma_next;
+
+			list_for_each_entry_safe(vma, vma_next,
+						 &obj->vma_list,
+						 vma_link)
+				if (i915_vma_unbind(vma))
+					break;
+
+			/* Stolen pins its pages to prevent the
+			 * normal shrinker from processing stolen
+			 * objects.
+			 */
+			i915_gem_object_unpin_pages(obj);
+
+			ret = i915_gem_object_put_pages(obj);
+			if (ret == 0) {
+				obj->madv = __I915_MADV_PURGED;
+
+				kfree(obj->stolen);
+				obj->stolen = NULL;
+			} else
+				i915_gem_object_pin_pages(obj);
+		}
+
+		drm_gem_object_unreference(&obj->base);
+	}
+
+	if (ret == 0)
+		ret = drm_mm_insert_node(&dev_priv->mm.stolen, stolen, size,
+					 4096, DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT);
+	if (ret == 0)
+		return stolen;
+
+	kfree(stolen);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+struct drm_i915_gem_object *
+i915_gem_object_create_stolen(struct drm_device *dev, u32 size)
+{
+	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
+	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
+	struct drm_mm_node *stolen;
+
+	lockdep_assert_held(&dev->struct_mutex);
+
+	if (!drm_mm_initialized(&dev_priv->mm.stolen))
+		return NULL;
+
+	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("creating stolen object: size=%x\n", size);
+
+	stolen = stolen_alloc(dev_priv, size);
+	if (stolen == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+
 	obj = _i915_gem_object_create_stolen(dev, stolen);
 	if (obj)
 		return obj;
-- 
1.9.0




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