Re: [PATCH] drm: i915: ensure objects are allocated below 4GB on PAE

[Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
> 
> Ensure we allocate GEM objects below 4GB on PAE machines, otherwise
> misery ensues. This patch is based on a patch found on dri-devel by
> Shaohua Li, but Keith P. expressed reticence that the changes unfairly
> penalized other hardware.
> 
> (The mm/shmem.c hunk is necessary to ensure the DMA32 flag isn't used
>  by the slab allocator via radix_tree_preload, which will hit a
>  WARN_ON.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>

I'm confused: I thought GFP_DMA32 only applies on x86_64:
my 32-bit PAE machine with (slightly!) > 4GB shows no ZONE_DMA32.
Does this patch perhaps depend on another, to enable DMA32 on 32-bit
PAE, or am I just in a muddle?

Regarding the mm/shmem.c hunk:
> -		error = radix_tree_preload(gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
> +		error = radix_tree_preload(gfp & ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_DMA32));

Yes, that would make sense.  I dislike it, but my dislike is no
reason to hold you up: what it ought to say is
		error = radix_tree_preload(gfp & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
and similarly the several other (gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM)s to be found
in nearby files: it's just an accident of history that nobody has
hit this issue with __GFP_DMA or __GFP_DMA32 before.  I intended
to change these months ago, my slowness is no reason to delay you.

Hugh

> ---
> 
> We're shipping a variant of this in Fedora 11 to fix a myriad of bugs on
> PAE hardware.
> 
> cheers, Kyle
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> index 4984aa8..ae52edc 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ drm_gem_object_alloc(struct drm_device *dev, size_t size)
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (dev->gem_flags)
> +		mapping_set_gfp_mask(obj->filp->f_mapping, dev->gem_flags);
> +
>  	kref_init(&obj->refcount);
>  	kref_init(&obj->handlecount);
>  	obj->size = size;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> index 53d5445..c89ae3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> @@ -1153,12 +1153,12 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>  	}
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G
> -	/* don't enable GEM on PAE - needs agp + set_memory_* interface fixes */
> -	dev_priv->has_gem = 0;
> -#else
> +	/* avoid allocating buffers above 4GB on PAE */
> +	dev->gem_flags = GFP_USER | GFP_DMA32;
> +#endif
> +
>  	/* enable GEM by default */
>  	dev_priv->has_gem = 1;
> -#endif
>  
>  	dev->driver->get_vblank_counter = i915_get_vblank_counter;
>  	if (IS_GM45(dev))
> diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
> index c8c4221..3744c1f 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drmP.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
> @@ -1019,6 +1019,7 @@ struct drm_device {
>  	uint32_t gtt_total;
>  	uint32_t invalidate_domains;    /* domains pending invalidation */
>  	uint32_t flush_domains;         /* domains pending flush */
> +	gfp_t gem_flags;		/* object allocation flags */
>  	/*@} */
>  
>  };
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index b25f95c..e615887 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ repeat:
>  		 * Try to preload while we can wait, to not make a habit of
>  		 * draining atomic reserves; but don't latch on to this cpu.
>  		 */
> -		error = radix_tree_preload(gfp & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
> +		error = radix_tree_preload(gfp & ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_DMA32));
>  		if (error)
>  			goto failed;
>  		radix_tree_preload_end();

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