[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Force relocations via cpu if we run out of idle aperture

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Oct 6 07:41:37 UTC 2016


If we run out of enough aperture space to fit the entire object, we
fallback to trying to insert a single page. However, if that also fails,
we currently fail to userspace with an unexpected ENOSPC. (ENOSPC means
to userspace that their batch could not be fitted within the GTT.) Prior
to commit e8cb909ac3ab ("drm/i915: Fallback to single page GTT
mmappings for relocations") the approach is to fallback to using the
slow CPU relocation path in case of iomapping failure, and that is the
behaviour we need to restore.

Fixes: e8cb909ac3ab ("drm/i915: Fallback to single page GTT mmappings...")
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98101
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 8c0cf1417e79..cdcdab2b0370 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ static void *reloc_iomap(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
 				 0, ggtt->mappable_end,
 				 DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT,
 				 DRM_MM_CREATE_DEFAULT);
-			if (ret)
-				return ERR_PTR(ret);
+			if (ret) /* no inactive aperture space, use cpu reloc */
+				return NULL;
 		} else {
 			ret = i915_vma_put_fence(vma);
 			if (ret) {
-- 
2.9.3



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