[PATCH 3.2 048/152] drm/vmwgfx: Don't use memory accounting for kernel-side fence objects

Ben Hutchings
2015-02-17T01:46:53Z

From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>

commit 1f563a6a46544602183e7493b6ef69769d3d76d9 upstream.

Kernel side fence objects are used when unbinding resources and may thus be
created as part of a memory reclaim operation. This might trigger recursive
memory reclaims and result in the kernel running out of stack space.

So a simple way out is to avoid accounting of these fence objects.
In principle this is OK since while user-space can trigger the creation of
such objects, it can't really hold on to them. However, their lifetime is
quite long, so some form of accounting should perhaps be implemented in the
future.

Fixes kernel crashes when running, for example viewperf11 ensight-04 test 3
with low system memory settings.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@vmware.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
@@ -484,14 +484,7 @@ void vmw_fence_obj_flush(struct vmw_fenc

static void vmw_fence_destroy(struct vmw_fence_obj *fence)
{
- struct vmw_fence_manager *fman = fence->fman;
-
kfree(fence);
- /*
- * Free kernel space accounting.
- */
- ttm_mem_global_free(vmw_mem_glob(fman->dev_priv),
- fman->fence_size);
}

int vmw_fence_create(struct vmw_fence_manager *fman,
@@ -499,20 +492,12 @@ int vmw_fence_create(struct vmw_fence_ma
uint32_t mask,
struct vmw_fence_obj **p_fence)
{
- struct ttm_mem_global *mem_glob = vmw_mem_glob(fman->dev_priv);
struct vmw_fence_obj *fence;
int ret;

- ret = ttm_mem_global_alloc(mem_glob, fman->fence_size,
- false, false);
- if (unlikely(ret != 0))
- return ret;
-
fence = kzalloc(sizeof(*fence), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (unlikely(fence == NULL)) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_no_object;
- }
+ if (unlikely(fence == NULL))
+ return -ENOMEM;

ret = vmw_fence_obj_init(fman, fence, seqno, mask,
vmw_fence_destroy);
@@ -524,8 +509,6 @@ int vmw_fence_create(struct vmw_fence_ma

out_err_init:
kfree(fence);
-out_no_object:
- ttm_mem_global_free(mem_glob, fman->fence_size);
return ret;
}