[PATCH 8/9] drm/i915: Only free the oldest stale object before a fresh allocation

Chris Wilson
2017-10-13T20:26:48Z

Inspired by Tvrtko's critique of the reaping of the stale contexts
before allocating a new one, also limit the freed object reaping to the
oldest stale object before allocating a fresh object. Unlike contexts,
objects may have radically different sizes of backing storage, but
similar to contexts, whilst we want to prevent starvation due to
excessive freed lists, we also want do not want to delay fresh
allocations for too long. Only freeing the oldest on the freed object
list before each allocation is a reasonable compromise.

v2: Only a single consumer of llist_del_first() is allowed (although
multiple llist_add are still allowed in parallel). Unlike
i915_gem_context, i915_gem_flush_free_objects() is itself not serialized
and so we need to add our own spinlock. Otherwise KASAN eventually spots
a use-after-free for the race on *first->next.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> #v1
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index c51c6020c7a9..3ad17c69c53a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1513,6 +1513,7 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
*/
struct llist_head free_list;
struct work_struct free_work;
+ spinlock_t free_lock;

/**
* Small stash of WC pages
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 819866359d5d..2c92048a00fc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4557,9 +4557,18 @@ static void i915_gem_flush_free_objects(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
{
struct llist_node *freed;

- freed = llist_del_all(&i915->mm.free_list);
- if (unlikely(freed))
+ /* Free the oldest, most stale object to keep the free_list short */
+ freed = NULL;
+ if (!llist_empty(&i915->mm.free_list)) { /* quick test for hotpath */
+ /* Only one consumer of llist_del_first() allowed */
+ spin_lock(&i915->mm.free_lock);
+ freed = llist_del_first(&i915->mm.free_list);
+ spin_unlock(&i915->mm.free_lock);
+ }
+ if (unlikely(freed)) {
+ freed->next = NULL;
__i915_gem_free_objects(i915, freed);
+ }
}

static void __i915_gem_free_work(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -5061,6 +5070,7 @@ i915_gem_load_init(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->mm.free_work, __i915_gem_free_work);

spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->mm.obj_lock);
+ spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->mm.free_lock);
init_llist_head(&dev_priv->mm.free_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.unbound_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.bound_list);