[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Retire requests before creating a new one

[Chris Wilson]

More fallout from

commit c8725f3dc0911d4354315a65150aecd8b7d0d74a
Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Mon Mar 17 12:21:55 2014 +0000

    drm/i915: Do not call retire_requests from wait_for_rendering

is that we can completely fill all of memory using small objects, such
that we exhaust the filp space, and spend all of our time evicting
objects from the aperture. As such, we never fill the ring, and never
trigger the last resort flushing in

commit 1cf0ba14740d96fbf6f58a201f000a34b74f4725
Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Mon May 5 09:07:33 2014 +0100

    drm/i915: Flush request queue when waiting for ring space

and so all the requests are left active and the objects keep that last
active reference. Eventually the system comes to a halt as it runs out
of memory.

The impact is mainly limited to test cases as regular userspace will
trigger retirement by manually checking whether an object is active.

Testcase: igt/gem_lut_handle
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78724
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 26c9d66e4294..7ba517f1ce06 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -628,6 +628,8 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
 	bool has_fenced_gpu_access = INTEL_INFO(ring->dev)->gen < 4;
 	int retry;
 
+	i915_gem_retire_requests_ring(ring);
+
 	vm = list_first_entry(vmas, struct i915_vma, exec_list)->vm;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ordered_vmas);
-- 
2.0.0.rc2