Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915: Make the kmem slab for i915_buddy_block a global

[Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:56 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 05:25:41PM +0100, Matthew Auld wrote:
> > On 21/07/2021 16:23, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> > > There's no reason that I can tell why this should be per-i915_buddy_mm
> > > and doing so causes KMEM_CACHE to throw dmesg warnings because it tries
> > > to create a debugfs entry with the name i915_buddy_block multiple times.
> > > We could handle this by carefully giving each slab its own name but that
> > > brings its own pain because then we have to store that string somewhere
> > > and manage the lifetimes of the different slabs.  The most likely
> > > outcome would be a global atomic which we increment to get a new name or
> > > something like that.
> > >
> > > The much easier solution is to use the i915_globals system like we do
> > > for every other slab in i915.  This ensures that we have exactly one of
> > > them for each i915 driver load and it gets neatly created on module load
> > > and destroyed on module unload.  Using the globals system also means
> > > that its now tied into the shrink handler so we can properly respond to
> > > low-memory situations.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
> > > Fixes: 88be9a0a06b7 ("drm/i915/ttm: add ttm_buddy_man")
> > > Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> >
> > It was intentionally ripped it out with the idea that we would be moving the
> > buddy stuff into ttm, and so part of that was trying to get rid of the some
> > of the i915 specifics, like this globals thing.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
>
> I just sent out a patch to put i915_globals on a diet, so maybe we can
> hold this patch here a bit when there's other reasons for why this is
> special?

This is required to get rid of the dmesg warnings.

> Or at least no make this use the i915_globals stuff and instead just link
> up the init/exit function calls directly into Jason's new table, so that
> we don't have a merge conflict here?

I'm happy to deal with merge conflicts however they land.

--Jason

> -Daniel
>
> >
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c   | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.h   |  3 +-
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c |  2 ++
> > >   3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
> > > index 29dd7d0310c1f..911feedad4513 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.c
> > > @@ -8,8 +8,14 @@
> > >   #include "i915_buddy.h"
> > >   #include "i915_gem.h"
> > > +#include "i915_globals.h"
> > >   #include "i915_utils.h"
> > > +static struct i915_global_buddy {
> > > +   struct i915_global base;
> > > +   struct kmem_cache *slab_blocks;
> > > +} global;
> > > +
> > >   static struct i915_buddy_block *i915_block_alloc(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > >                                              struct i915_buddy_block *parent,
> > >                                              unsigned int order,
> > > @@ -19,7 +25,7 @@ static struct i915_buddy_block *i915_block_alloc(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > >     GEM_BUG_ON(order > I915_BUDDY_MAX_ORDER);
> > > -   block = kmem_cache_zalloc(mm->slab_blocks, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +   block = kmem_cache_zalloc(global.slab_blocks, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >     if (!block)
> > >             return NULL;
> > > @@ -34,7 +40,7 @@ static struct i915_buddy_block *i915_block_alloc(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > >   static void i915_block_free(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > >                         struct i915_buddy_block *block)
> > >   {
> > > -   kmem_cache_free(mm->slab_blocks, block);
> > > +   kmem_cache_free(global.slab_blocks, block);
> > >   }
> > >   static void mark_allocated(struct i915_buddy_block *block)
> > > @@ -85,15 +91,11 @@ int i915_buddy_init(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm, u64 size, u64 chunk_size)
> > >     GEM_BUG_ON(mm->max_order > I915_BUDDY_MAX_ORDER);
> > > -   mm->slab_blocks = KMEM_CACHE(i915_buddy_block, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN);
> > > -   if (!mm->slab_blocks)
> > > -           return -ENOMEM;
> > > -
> > >     mm->free_list = kmalloc_array(mm->max_order + 1,
> > >                                   sizeof(struct list_head),
> > >                                   GFP_KERNEL);
> > >     if (!mm->free_list)
> > > -           goto out_destroy_slab;
> > > +           return -ENOMEM;
> > >     for (i = 0; i <= mm->max_order; ++i)
> > >             INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->free_list[i]);
> > > @@ -145,8 +147,6 @@ int i915_buddy_init(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm, u64 size, u64 chunk_size)
> > >     kfree(mm->roots);
> > >   out_free_list:
> > >     kfree(mm->free_list);
> > > -out_destroy_slab:
> > > -   kmem_cache_destroy(mm->slab_blocks);
> > >     return -ENOMEM;
> > >   }
> > > @@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ void i915_buddy_fini(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm)
> > >     kfree(mm->roots);
> > >     kfree(mm->free_list);
> > > -   kmem_cache_destroy(mm->slab_blocks);
> > >   }
> > >   static int split_block(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > > @@ -410,3 +409,28 @@ int i915_buddy_alloc_range(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm,
> > >   #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_I915_SELFTEST)
> > >   #include "selftests/i915_buddy.c"
> > >   #endif
> > > +
> > > +static void i915_global_buddy_shrink(void)
> > > +{
> > > +   kmem_cache_shrink(global.slab_blocks);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void i915_global_buddy_exit(void)
> > > +{
> > > +   kmem_cache_destroy(global.slab_blocks);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static struct i915_global_buddy global = { {
> > > +   .shrink = i915_global_buddy_shrink,
> > > +   .exit = i915_global_buddy_exit,
> > > +} };
> > > +
> > > +int __init i915_global_buddy_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > +   global.slab_blocks = KMEM_CACHE(i915_buddy_block, 0);
> > > +   if (!global.slab_blocks)
> > > +           return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +   i915_global_register(&global.base);
> > > +   return 0;
> > > +}
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.h
> > > index 37f8c42071d12..d8f26706de52f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_buddy.h
> > > @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ struct i915_buddy_block {
> > >    * i915_buddy_alloc* and i915_buddy_free* should suffice.
> > >    */
> > >   struct i915_buddy_mm {
> > > -   struct kmem_cache *slab_blocks;
> > >     /* Maintain a free list for each order. */
> > >     struct list_head *free_list;
> > > @@ -130,4 +129,6 @@ void i915_buddy_free(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm, struct i915_buddy_block *block);
> > >   void i915_buddy_free_list(struct i915_buddy_mm *mm, struct list_head *objects);
> > > +int i915_global_buddy_init(void);
> > > +
> > >   #endif
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
> > > index 87267e1d2ad92..e57102a4c8d16 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_globals.c
> > > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> > >   #include <linux/workqueue.h>
> > >   #include "i915_active.h"
> > > +#include "i915_buddy.h"
> > >   #include "gem/i915_gem_context.h"
> > >   #include "gem/i915_gem_object.h"
> > >   #include "i915_globals.h"
> > > @@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ static void __i915_globals_cleanup(void)
> > >   static __initconst int (* const initfn[])(void) = {
> > >     i915_global_active_init,
> > > +   i915_global_buddy_init,
> > >     i915_global_context_init,
> > >     i915_global_gem_context_init,
> > >     i915_global_objects_init,
> > >
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> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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