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drm/i915: Prefer to report ENOMEM rather than incur the oom for gfx allocations

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Since gfx allocations tend to be large, unmovable and disposable, report
the allocation failure back to userspace as an ENOMEM rather than incur
the oomkiller. We have already tried to make room by purging our own
cached gfx objects, and the oomkiller doesn't attribute ownership of gfx
objects so will likely pick the wrong candidate. Instead, let userspace
see the ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170322110521.29930-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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Chris Wilson 2017-03-22 11:05:21 +00:00
parent 396a1200d8
commit 24f8e00a8a
1 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
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@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@ i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
st->nents = 0;
for (i = 0; i < page_count; i++) {
page = shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(mapping, i, gfp);
if (IS_ERR(page)) {
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(page))) {
i915_gem_shrink(dev_priv,
page_count,
I915_SHRINK_BOUND |
@ -2329,12 +2329,21 @@ i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
I915_SHRINK_PURGEABLE);
page = shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(mapping, i, gfp);
}
if (IS_ERR(page)) {
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(page))) {
gfp_t reclaim;
/* We've tried hard to allocate the memory by reaping
* our own buffer, now let the real VM do its job and
* go down in flames if truly OOM.
*
* However, since graphics tend to be disposable,
* defer the oom here by reporting the ENOMEM back
* to userspace.
*/
page = shmem_read_mapping_page(mapping, i);
reclaim = mapping_gfp_constraint(mapping, 0);
reclaim |= __GFP_NORETRY; /* reclaim, but no oom */
page = shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(mapping, i, gfp);
if (IS_ERR(page)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(page);
goto err_sg;