linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/22] Add generic memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU and Panfrost DRM drivers

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:11:07 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>,
        Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>,
        Gert Wollny <gert.wollny@...labora.com>,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>,
        Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>,
        Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@...labora.com>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>,
        Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/22] Add generic memory shrinker to VirtIO-GPU and
 Panfrost DRM drivers

Hello Robin,

On 6/28/22 15:31, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patchset introduces memory shrinker for the VirtIO-GPU DRM driver
>> and adds memory purging and eviction support to VirtIO-GPU driver.
>>
>> The new dma-buf locking convention is introduced here as well.
>>
>> During OOM, the shrinker will release BOs that are marked as "not needed"
>> by userspace using the new madvise IOCTL, it will also evict idling BOs
>> to SWAP. The userspace in this case is the Mesa VirGL driver, it will
>> mark
>> the cached BOs as "not needed", allowing kernel driver to release memory
>> of the cached shmem BOs on lowmem situations, preventing OOM kills.
>>
>> The Panfrost driver is switched to use generic memory shrinker.
> 
> I think we still have some outstanding issues here - Alyssa reported
> some weirdness yesterday, so I just tried provoking a low-memory
> condition locally with this series applied and a few debug options
> enabled, and the results as below were... interesting.

The warning and crash that you got actually are the minor issues.

Alyssa caught an interesting PREEMPT_DEBUG issue in the shrinker that I
haven't seen before.

She is also experiencing another problem in the Panfrost driver with a
bad shmem pages (I think). It is unrelated to this patchset and
apparently require an extra setup for the reproduction.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry