[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/10] drm/i915: Release mmaps on partial ggtt vma unbind

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Dec 14 09:01:45 PST 2015


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:23:40PM +0200, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> When a partial ggtt vma gets evicted, we need to zap any CPU
> mapping to said vma as well. Currently we zap the mappings
> only when the normal gtt vma gets evicted, but for partial
> vmas we leave behind stale CPU mappins. And so, if something
> else gets bound into the same gtt address range, any
> userspace access into the relevant virtual addresses will
> go astray.
> 
> I didn't find anything really suitable in the mm code to zap
> just the needed mappings (we'd need to know the right CPU
> side mm and vma etc.), so let's just call i915_gem_release_mmap()
> for now.
> 
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Testcase: igt/gem_mmap_gtt
> Fixes: c5ad54c ("drm/i915: Use partial view in mmap fault handler")
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

I fixed this by tracking vma->map_and_fenceable instead. We still kill
the entire object though. Note this is not enough to completely fix the
test case, so perhaps we wait until we can merge the series to do the
full fix?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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