drm/i915: vma/ppgtt lifetime rules

VMAs should take a reference of the address space they use.

Now, when the fd is closed, it will release the ref that the context was
holding, but it will still be referenced by any vmas that are still
active.

ppgtt_release() should then only be called when the last thing referencing
it releases the ref, and it can just call the base cleanup and free the
ppgtt.

Note that with this we will extend the lifetime of ppgtts which
contain shared objects. But all the non-shared objects will get
removed as soon as they drop of the active list and for the shared
ones the shrinker can eventually reap them. Since we currently can't
evict ppgtt pagetables either I don't think that temporary leak is
important.

Signed-off-by: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
[danvet: Add note about potential ppgtt leak with this approach.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
index 7a08f3e9e1ae..a509a4bca991 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -108,30 +108,13 @@ static void do_ppgtt_cleanup(struct i915_hw_ppgtt *ppgtt)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Make sure vmas are unbound before we take down the drm_mm
-	 *
-	 * FIXME: Proper refcounting should take care of this, this shouldn't be
-	 * needed at all.
-	 */
-	if (!list_empty(&vm->active_list)) {
-		struct i915_vma *vma;
-
-		list_for_each_entry(vma, &vm->active_list, mm_list)
-			if (WARN_ON(list_empty(&vma->vma_link) ||
-				    list_is_singular(&vma->vma_link)))
-				break;
-
-		i915_gem_evict_vm(&ppgtt->base, true);
-	} else {
-		i915_gem_retire_requests(dev);
-		i915_gem_evict_vm(&ppgtt->base, false);
-	}
+	/* vmas should already be unbound */
+	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&vm->active_list));
 
 	ppgtt->base.cleanup(&ppgtt->base);
 }
 
-static void ppgtt_release(struct kref *kref)
+void ppgtt_release(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct i915_hw_ppgtt *ppgtt =
 		container_of(kref, struct i915_hw_ppgtt, ref);