Commit 73cc0b9a authored by Joonas Lahtinen's avatar Joonas Lahtinen

drm/i915: Do not sync RCU during shrinking

Due to the complex dependencies between workqueues and RCU, which
are not easily detected by lockdep, do not synchronize RCU during
shrinking.

On low-on-memory systems (mem=1G for example), the RCU sync leads
to all system workqueus freezing and unrelated lockdep splats are
displayed according to reports. GIT bisecting done by J. R.
Okajima points to the commit where RCU syncing was extended.

RCU sync gains us very little benefit in real life scenarios
where the amount of memory used by object backing storage is
dominant over the metadata under RCU, so drop it altogether.

 " Yeeeaah, if core could just, go ahead and reclaim RCU
   queues, that'd be great. "

  - Chris Wilson, 2016 (0eafec6d)

v2: More information to commit message.
v3: Remove "grep _rcu_" escapee from i915_gem_shrink_all (Andrea)

Fixes: c053b5a5 ("drm/i915: Don't call synchronize_rcu_expedited under struct_mutex")
Suggested-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reported-by: default avatarJ. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1494414040-11160-1-git-send-email-joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
parent a0c1fe21
...@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ static void shrinker_unlock(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, bool unlock) ...@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ static void shrinker_unlock(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, bool unlock)
return; return;
mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex); mutex_unlock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
/* expedite the RCU grace period to free some request slabs */
synchronize_rcu_expedited();
} }
static bool any_vma_pinned(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj) static bool any_vma_pinned(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
...@@ -274,8 +271,6 @@ unsigned long i915_gem_shrink_all(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv) ...@@ -274,8 +271,6 @@ unsigned long i915_gem_shrink_all(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE); I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE);
intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv); intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv);
synchronize_rcu(); /* wait for our earlier RCU delayed slab frees */
return freed; return freed;
} }
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