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Message-ID: <4B610134.9020109@reinelt.co.at>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:15:00 +0100
From:	Michael Reinelt <michael@...nelt.co.at>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
CC:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@...il.com>,
	A Rojas <nqn1976list@...il.com>,
	"A. Boulan" <arnaud.boulan@...ertysurf.fr>,
	jcnengel@...glemail.com, rientjes@...gle.com, earny@...4u.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Selectively enable self-reclaim



Pekka Enberg schrieb:
> Chris Wilson kirjoitti:
>> Having missed the ENOMEM return via i915_gem_fault(), there are probably
>> other paths that I also missed. By not enabling NORETRY by default these
>> paths can run the shrinker and take memory from the system (but not from
>> our own inactive lists because our shrinker can not run whilst we hold
>> the struct mutex) and this may allow the system to survive a little
>> longer
>> whilst our drivers consume all available memory.
>>
>> References:
>>   OOM killer unexpectedly called with kernel 2.6.32
>>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
>> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
>> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
>> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
>> Cc: stable@...nel.org
> 
> Roman, can you give this patch a spin?

Applied to 2.6.33-rc5, stress-test under heavy load, no problem so far. Looks fine!

>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c       |   13 -------------
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |   22 ++++++++++------------
>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
>> index e9dbb48..8bf3770 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
>> @@ -142,19 +142,6 @@ drm_gem_object_alloc(struct drm_device *dev,
>> size_t size)
>>      if (IS_ERR(obj->filp))
>>          goto free;
>>  
>> -    /* Basically we want to disable the OOM killer and handle ENOMEM
>> -     * ourselves by sacrificing pages from cached buffers.
>> -     * XXX shmem_file_[gs]et_gfp_mask()
>> -     */
>> -    mapping_set_gfp_mask(obj->filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mapping,
>> -                 GFP_HIGHUSER |
>> -                 __GFP_COLD |
>> -                 __GFP_FS |
>> -                 __GFP_RECLAIMABLE |
>> -                 __GFP_NORETRY |
>> -                 __GFP_NOWARN |
>> -                 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
>> -
>>      kref_init(&obj->refcount);
>>      kref_init(&obj->handlecount);
>>      obj->size = size;
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> index 28b8f03..1ef5b54 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> @@ -336,25 +336,25 @@ i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (struct
>> drm_gem_object *obj, gfp_t gfp)
>>  static int
>>  i915_gem_object_get_pages_or_evict(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
>>  {
>> +    gfp_t gfp;
>>      int ret;
>>  
>> +    gfp = i915_gem_object_get_page_gfp_mask(obj);
>> +    i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask(obj, gfp | __GFP_NORETRY |
>> __GFP_NOWARN);
>>      ret = i915_gem_object_get_pages(obj);
>> +    i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj, gfp);
>>  
>>      /* If we've insufficient memory to map in the pages, attempt
>>       * to make some space by throwing out some old buffers.
>>       */
>>      if (ret == -ENOMEM) {
>>          struct drm_device *dev = obj->dev;
>> -        gfp_t gfp;
>>  
>>          ret = i915_gem_evict_something(dev, obj->size);
>>          if (ret)
>>              return ret;
>>  
>> -        gfp = i915_gem_object_get_page_gfp_mask(obj);
>> -        i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask(obj, gfp & ~__GFP_NORETRY);
>>          ret = i915_gem_object_get_pages(obj);
>> -        i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj, gfp);
>>      }
>>  
>>      return ret;
>> @@ -2580,6 +2580,7 @@ i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt(struct
>> drm_gem_object *obj, unsigned alignment)
>>      struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj_priv = obj->driver_private;
>>      struct drm_mm_node *free_space;
>>      bool retry_alloc = false;
>> +    gfp_t gfp;
>>      int ret;
>>  
>>      if (obj_priv->madv != I915_MADV_WILLNEED) {
>> @@ -2623,15 +2624,12 @@ i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt(struct
>> drm_gem_object *obj, unsigned alignment)
>>      DRM_INFO("Binding object of size %zd at 0x%08x\n",
>>           obj->size, obj_priv->gtt_offset);
>>  #endif
>> -    if (retry_alloc) {
>> -        i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj,
>> -                           i915_gem_object_get_page_gfp_mask (obj) &
>> ~__GFP_NORETRY);
>> -    }
>> +    gfp = i915_gem_object_get_page_gfp_mask(obj);
>> +    if (! retry_alloc)
>> +        i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj, gfp | __GFP_NORETRY |
>> __GFP_NOWARN);
>>      ret = i915_gem_object_get_pages(obj);
>> -    if (retry_alloc) {
>> -        i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj,
>> -                           i915_gem_object_get_page_gfp_mask (obj) |
>> __GFP_NORETRY);
>> -    }
>> +    i915_gem_object_set_page_gfp_mask (obj, gfp);
>> +
>>      if (ret) {
>>          drm_mm_put_block(obj_priv->gtt_space);
>>          obj_priv->gtt_space = NULL;
> 
> 
> 

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Michael Reinelt <michael@...nelt.co.at>
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