drm/i915: Only free the oldest stale object before a fresh allocation
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:26:20 +0000 (21:26 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:44:19 +0000 (20:44 +0100)
commit87701b4b559377dd6ebc95003bd8e422a1011303
treecf6c32f437fa6cbda85b2371eca3d7a445ef30bc
parentc5418a8b38a4ff9284e8e59c06a24f443197131c
drm/i915: Only free the oldest stale object before a fresh allocation

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, while we want to prevent starvation due to
excessive freed lists, we also 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
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171013202621.7276-8-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c