[PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Unbind objects in shrinker only if device is runtime active

Praveen Paneri
2015-12-29T06:56:20Z

When the system is running low on memory, gem shrinker is invoked.
In this process objects will be unbounded from GTT and unbinding process
will require access to GTT(GTTADR) and also to fence register potentially.
That requires a resume of gfx device, if suspended, in the shrinker path.
Considering the power leakage due to intermediate resume, perform unbinding
operation only if device is already runtime active.

Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Praveen Paneri <praveen.paneri@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
index f7df54a..6f91070 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ i915_gem_shrink(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
i915_gem_retire_requests(dev_priv->dev);

/*
+ * Unbinding of objects will require HW access; Let us not wake the
+ * device just to recover a little memory. If absolutely necessary,
+ * we will force the wake during oom-notifier.
+ */
+ if ((flags & I915_SHRINK_BOUND) &&
+ !intel_runtime_pm_get_noidle(dev_priv))
+ flags &= ~I915_SHRINK_BOUND;
+
+ /*
* As we may completely rewrite the (un)bound list whilst unbinding
* (due to retiring requests) we have to strictly process only
* one element of the list at the time, and recheck the list
@@ -145,6 +154,9 @@ i915_gem_shrink(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
list_splice(&still_in_list, phase->list);
}

+ if (flags & I915_SHRINK_BOUND)
+ intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv);
+
i915_gem_retire_requests(dev_priv->dev);

return count;
--
1.9.1