[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drn/i915: Break up long i915_buddy_free_list() with a cond_resched()

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sat Dec 21 14:49:17 UTC 2019


In the selftests, we may feed very long lists of blocks to be freed on
culmination of the tests. This coupled with kasan and other
malloc-tracing can make the kmem_cache_free() operation time consuming,
and doing many of time trigger soft lockup warnings. Break the list up
with a cond_resched().

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
index e9d4200ce3bc..66883af64ca1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
@@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ void i915_buddy_free_list(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm, struct list_head *objects)
 {
 	struct i915_buddy_block *block, *on;
 
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(block, on, objects, link)
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(block, on, objects, link) {
 		i915_buddy_free(mm, block);
+		cond_resched();
+	}
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(objects);
 }
 
-- 
2.24.1



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