linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm, drm/i915: mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

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Date:   Fri, 2 Nov 2018 07:05:44 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Vovo Yang <vovoy@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm, drm/i915: mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

On 11/2/18 6:22 AM, Vovo Yang wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:30 PM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>> On 11/1/18 5:06 AM, Vovo Yang wrote:
>>>> mlock() and ramfs usage are pretty easy to track down.  /proc/$pid/smaps
>>>> or /proc/meminfo can show us mlock() and good ol' 'df' and friends can
>>>> show us ramfs the extent of pinned memory.
>>>>
>>>> With these, if we see "Unevictable" in meminfo bump up, we at least have
>>>> a starting point to find the cause.
>>>>
>>>> Do we have an equivalent for i915?
> Chris helped to answer this question:
> Though it includes a few non-shmemfs objects, see
> debugfs/dri/0/i915_gem_objects and the "bound objects".
> 
> Example i915_gem_object output:
>   591 objects, 95449088 bytes
>   55 unbound objects, 1880064 bytes
>   533 bound objects, 93040640 bytes

Do those non-shmemfs objects show up on the unevictable list?  How far
can the amount of memory on the unevictable list and the amount
displayed in this "bound objects" value diverge?