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

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 4704cfe93279..dd141b250583 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1513,6 +1513,7 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
 	 */
 	struct llist_head free_list;
 	struct work_struct free_work;
+	spinlock_t free_lock;
 
 	/**
 	 * Small stash of WC pages
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 60e7fec426e2..f4b5921a9e9b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4555,9 +4555,18 @@ static void i915_gem_flush_free_objects(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 {
 	struct llist_node *freed;
 
-	freed = llist_del_all(&i915->mm.free_list);
-	if (unlikely(freed))
+	/* Free the oldest, most stale object to keep the free_list short */
+	freed = NULL;
+	if (!llist_empty(&i915->mm.free_list)) { /* quick test for hotpath */
+		/* Only one consumer of llist_del_first() allowed */
+		spin_lock(&i915->mm.free_lock);
+		freed = llist_del_first(&i915->mm.free_list);
+		spin_unlock(&i915->mm.free_lock);
+	}
+	if (unlikely(freed)) {
+		freed->next = NULL;
 		__i915_gem_free_objects(i915, freed);
+	}
 }
 
 static void __i915_gem_free_work(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -5059,6 +5068,7 @@ i915_gem_load_init(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 	INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->mm.free_work, __i915_gem_free_work);
 
 	spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->mm.obj_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->mm.free_lock);
 	init_llist_head(&dev_priv->mm.free_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.unbound_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.bound_list);