GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8f ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.
The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.
I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.
I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.
I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.
This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was the competing idea long ago, but it was only with the rewrite
of the idr as an radixtree and using the radixtree directly ourselves,
along with the realisation that we can store the vma directly in the
radixtree and only need a list for the reverse mapping, that made the
patch performant enough to displace using a hashtable. Though the vma ht
is fast and doesn't require any extra allocation (as we can embed the node
inside the vma), it does require a thread for resizing and serialization
and will have the occasional slow lookup. That is hairy enough to
investigate alternatives and favour them if equivalent in peak performance.
One advantage of allocating an indirection entry is that we can support a
single shared bo between many clients, something that was done on a
first-come first-serve basis for shared GGTT vma previously. To offset
the extra allocations, we create yet another kmem_cache for them.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170816085210.4199-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the original selftest, we didn't care what the engine->id was, just
that it could uniquely identify it. Later though, we started tracking
the mock engines in the fixed size arrays around the drm_i915_private and
so we now require their indices to be correct. This becomes an issue when
using the standalone harness which runs all available tests at module load,
and so we quickly assign an out-of-bounds index to an engine as we
reallocate the mock GEM device between tests. It doesn't show up in
igt/drv_selftest as that runs each subtest individually.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102045
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170809163930.26470-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
If we move the actual cleanup of the context to a worker, we can allow
the final free to be called from any context and avoid undue latency in
the caller.
v2: Negotiate handling the delayed contexts free by flushing the
workqueue before calling i915_gem_context_fini() and performing the final
free of the kernel context directly
v3: Flush deferred frees before new context allocations
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170620110547.15947-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The major scaling bottleneck in execbuffer is the processing of the
execobjects. Creating an auxiliary list is inefficient when compared to
using the execobject array we already have allocated.
Reservation is then split into phases. As we lookup up the VMA, we
try and bind it back into active location. Only if that fails, do we add
it to the unbound list for phase 2. In phase 2, we try and add all those
objects that could not fit into their previous location, with fallback
to retrying all objects and evicting the VM in case of severe
fragmentation. (This is the same as before, except that phase 1 is now
done inline with looking up the VMA to avoid an iteration over the
execobject array. In the ideal case, we eliminate the separate reservation
phase). During the reservation phase, we only evict from the VM between
passes (rather than currently as we try to fit every new VMA). In
testing with Unreal Engine's Atlantis demo which stresses the eviction
logic on gen7 class hardware, this speed up the framerate by a factor of
2.
The second loop amalgamation is between move_to_gpu and move_to_active.
As we always submit the request, even if incomplete, we can use the
current request to track active VMA as we perform the flushes and
synchronisation required.
The next big advancement is to avoid copying back to the user any
execobjects and relocations that are not changed.
v2: Add a Theory of Operation spiel.
v3: Fall back to slow relocations in preparation for flushing userptrs.
v4: Document struct members, factor out eb_validate_vma(), add a few
more comments to explain some magic and hide other magic behind macros.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
The advent of full-ppgtt lead to an extra indirection between the object
and its binding. That extra indirection has a noticeable impact on how
fast we can convert from the user handles to our internal vma for
execbuffer. In order to bypass the extra indirection, we use a
resizable hashtable to jump from the object to the per-ctx vma.
rhashtable was considered but we don't need the online resizing feature
and the extra complexity proved to undermine its usefulness. Instead, we
simply reallocate the hastable on demand in a background task and
serialize it before iterating.
In non-full-ppgtt modes, multiple files and multiple contexts can share
the same vma. This leads to having multiple possible handle->vma links,
so we only use the first to establish the fast path. The majority of
buffers are not shared and so we should still be able to realise
speedups with multiple clients.
v2: Prettier names, more magic.
v3: Many style tweaks, most notably hiding the misuse of execobj[].rsvd2
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Currently, we only mark the CPU cache as dirty if we skip a clflush.
This leads to some confusion where we have to ask if the object is in
the write domain or missed a clflush. If we always mark the cache as
dirty, this becomes a much simply question to answer.
The goal remains to do as few clflushes as required and to do them as
late as possible, in the hope of deferring the work to a kthread and not
block the caller (e.g. execbuf, flips).
v2: Always call clflush before GPU execution when the cache_dirty flag
is set. This may cause some extra work on llc systems that migrate dirty
buffers back and forth - but we do try to limit that by only setting
cache_dirty at the end of the gpu sequence.
v3: Always mark the cache as dirty upon a level change, as we need to
invalidate any stale cachelines due to external writes.
Reported-by: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim@intel.com>
Fixes: a6a7cc4b7d ("drm/i915: Always flush the dirty CPU cache when pinning the scanout")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170615123850.26843-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
More stuff for 4.13:
- skl+ wm fixes from Mahesh Kumar
- some refactor and tests for i915_sw_fence (Chris)
- tune execlist/scheduler code (Chris)
- g4x,g33 gpu reset improvements (Chris, Mika)
- guc code cleanup (Michal Wajdeczko, Michał Winiarski)
- dp aux backlight improvements (Puthikorn Voravootivat)
- buffer based guc/host communication (Michal Wajdeczko)
* tag 'drm-intel-next-2017-05-29' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel: (253 commits)
drm/i915: Update DRIVER_DATE to 20170529
drm/i915: Keep the forcewake timer alive for 1ms past the most recent use
drm/i915/guc: capture GuC logs if FW fails to load
drm/i915/guc: Introduce buffer based cmd transport
drm/i915/guc: Disable send function on fini
drm: Add definition for eDP backlight frequency
drm/i915: Drop AUX backlight enable check for backlight control
drm/i915: Consolidate #ifdef CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU
drm/i915: Only GGTT vma may be pinned and prevent shrinking
drm/i915: Serialize GTT/Aperture accesses on BXT
drm/i915: Convert i915_gem_object_ops->flags values to use BIT()
drm/i915/selftests: Silence compiler warning in igt_ctx_exec
drm/i915/guc: Skip port assign on first iteration of GuC dequeue
drm/i915: Remove misleading comment in request_alloc
drm/i915/g33: Improve reset reliability
Revert "drm/i915: Restore lost "Initialized i915" welcome message"
drm/i915/huc: Update GLK HuC version
drm/i915: Check for allocation failure
drm/i915/guc: Remove action status and statistics from debugfs
drm/i915/g4x: Improve gpu reset reliability
...
Now that drm_[cm]alloc* helpers are simple one line wrappers around
kvmalloc_array and drm_free_large is just kvfree alias we can drop
them and replace by their native forms.
This shouldn't introduce any functional change.
Changes since v1
- fix typo in drivers/gpu//drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c - noticed by 0day
build robot
Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>drm: drop drm_[cm]alloc* helpers
[danvet: Fixup vgem which grew another user very recently.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517122312.GK18247@dhcp22.suse.cz
The i915_priolist are allocated within an atomic context on a path where
we wish to minimise latency. If we use a dedicated kmem_cache, we have
the advantage of a local freelist from which to service new requests
that should keep the latency impact of an allocation small. Though
currently we expect the majority of requests to be at default priority
(and so hit the preallocate priolist), once userspace starts using
priorities they are likely to use many fine grained policies improving
the utilisation of a private slab.
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>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517121007.27224-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:
- Debloat RCU headers
- Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)
- Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
srcu: Debloat the <linux/rcu_segcblist.h> header
srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
srcu: Parallelize callback handling
kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
rcu: Use bool value directly
...
Since unifying ringbuffer/execlist submission to use
engine->pin_context, we ensure that the intel_ring is available before
we start constructing the request. We can therefore move the assignment
of the request->ring to the central i915_gem_request_alloc() and not
require it in every engine->request_alloc() callback. Another small step
towards simplification (of the core, but at a cost of handling error
pointers in less important callers of engine->pin_context).
v2: Rearrange a few branches to reduce impact of PTR_ERR() on gcc's code
generation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170504093308.4137-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Backmerge the main drm-next pull to sync up.
Chris also pointed out that
commit ade0b0c965
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Sat Apr 22 09:15:37 2017 +0100
drm/i915: Confirm the request is still active before adding it to the await
is double-applied in the git merge, so make sure we get this right.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Track the latest fence waited upon on each context, and only add a new
asynchronous wait if the new fence is more recent than the recorded
fence for that context. This requires us to filter out unordered
timelines, which are noted by DMA_FENCE_NO_CONTEXT. However, in the
absence of a universal identifier, we have to use our own
i915->mm.unordered_timeline token.
v2: Throw around the debug crutches
v3: Inline the likely case of the pre-allocation cache being full.
v4: Drop the pre-allocation support, we can lose the most recent fence
in case of allocation failure -- it just means we may emit more awaits
than strictly necessary but will not break.
v5: Trim allocation size for leaf nodes, they only need an array of u32
not pointers.
v6: Create mock_timeline to tidy selftest writing
v7: s/intel_timeline_sync_get/intel_timeline_sync_is_later/ (Tvrtko)
v8: Prune the stale sync points when we idle.
v9: Include a small benchmark in the kselftests
v10: Separate the idr implementation into its own compartment. (Tvrkto)
v11: Refactor igt_sync kselftests to avoid deep nesting (Tvrkto)
v12: __sync_leaf_idx() to assert that p->height is 0 when checking leaves
v13: kselftests to investigate struct i915_syncmap itself (Tvrtko)
v14: Foray into ascii art graphs
v15: Take into account that the random lookup/insert does 2 prng calls,
not 1, when benchmarking, and use for_each_set_bit() (Tvrtko)
v16: Improved ascii art
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170503093924.5320-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drm/i915 and gvt fixes for drm-next/v4.12
* tag 'drm-intel-next-fixes-2017-04-27' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel:
drm/i915: Confirm the request is still active before adding it to the await
drm/i915: Avoid busy-spinning on VLV_GLTC_PW_STATUS mmio
drm/i915/selftests: Allocate inode/file dynamically
drm/i915: Fix system hang with EI UP masked on Haswell
drm/i915: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() in mock selftests
drm/i915: Perform link quality check unconditionally during long pulse
drm/i915: Fix use after free in lpe_audio_platdev_destroy()
drm/i915: Use the right mapping_gfp_mask for final shmem allocation
drm/i915: Make legacy cursor updates more unsynced
drm/i915: Apply a cond_resched() to the saturated signaler
drm/i915: Park the signaler before sleeping
drm/i915/gvt: fix a bounds check in ring_id_to_context_switch_event()
drm/i915/gvt: Fix PTE write flush for taking runtime pm properly
drm/i915/gvt: remove some debug messages in scheduler timer handler
drm/i915/gvt: add mmio init for virtual display
drm/i915/gvt: use directly assignment for structure copying
drm/i915/gvt: remove redundant ring id check which cause significant CPU misprediction
drm/i915/gvt: remove redundant platform check for mocs load/restore
drm/i915/gvt: Align render mmio list to cacheline
drm/i915/gvt: cleanup some too chatty scheduler message
drm-misc-next-fixes-2017-04-20
Core changes:
- Maintain sti via drm-misc (Vincent)
- Rename dma_buf_ops->kmap_* to avoid naming collision (Logan)
Driver changes:
- Fix UHD displays on stih407 (Vincent)
- Fix uninitialized var return in atmel-hlcdc (Dan)
* tag 'drm-misc-next-fixes-2017-04-20' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-misc:
dma-buf: Rename dma-ops to prevent conflict with kunmap_atomic macro
drm: atmel-hlcdc: Uninitialized return in atmel_hlcdc_create_outputs()
drm/sti: fix GDP size to support up to UHD resolution
MAINTAINERS: add drm/sti driver into drm-misc
