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[RFC,4/4] drm/i915: Remove trylock-looping from the shrinker

Message ID 20190103122329.19948-5-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Shrinker tweaks/fixes? | expand

Commit Message

Tvrtko Ursulin Jan. 3, 2019, 12:23 p.m. UTC
From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

In a patch named "drm/i915: Return immediately if trylock fails for
direct-reclaim" Chris Wilson implicitly suggests it is safe to use a plain
mutex_lock instead of trylock on the I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE code paths.

Explore this to see how the lockdep traces will look.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Comments

Chris Wilson Jan. 3, 2019, 12:56 p.m. UTC | #1
Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-01-03 12:23:29)
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> 
> In a patch named "drm/i915: Return immediately if trylock fails for
> direct-reclaim" Chris Wilson implicitly suggests it is safe to use a plain
> mutex_lock instead of trylock on the I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE code paths.
> 
> Explore this to see how the lockdep traces will look.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 11 ++---------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> index 97deec775f40..2d4a54851c0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> @@ -47,15 +47,8 @@ shrinker_lock(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags, bool *unlock)
>         case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_FAILED:
>                 *unlock = false;
>                 if (flags & I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE) {
> -                       preempt_disable();
> -                       do {
> -                               cpu_relax();
> -                               if (mutex_trylock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex)) {
> -                                       *unlock = true;
> -                                       break;
> -                               }
> -                       } while (!need_resched());
> -                       preempt_enable();
> +                       mutex_lock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);

You seemed to have lost some annotation here.
-Chris
Tvrtko Ursulin Jan. 3, 2019, 1:10 p.m. UTC | #2
On 03/01/2019 12:56, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-01-03 12:23:29)
>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
>>
>> In a patch named "drm/i915: Return immediately if trylock fails for
>> direct-reclaim" Chris Wilson implicitly suggests it is safe to use a plain
>> mutex_lock instead of trylock on the I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE code paths.
>>
>> Explore this to see how the lockdep traces will look.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
>> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 11 ++---------
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
>> index 97deec775f40..2d4a54851c0a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
>> @@ -47,15 +47,8 @@ shrinker_lock(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags, bool *unlock)
>>          case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_FAILED:
>>                  *unlock = false;
>>                  if (flags & I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE) {
>> -                       preempt_disable();
>> -                       do {
>> -                               cpu_relax();
>> -                               if (mutex_trylock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex)) {
>> -                                       *unlock = true;
>> -                                       break;
>> -                               }
>> -                       } while (!need_resched());
>> -                       preempt_enable();
>> +                       mutex_lock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
> 
> You seemed to have lost some annotation here.

I deliberately omitted mutex_lock_nested from this series to avoid 
hiding any potential lockdep issues. If there won't be any hit then we 
really need to improve on the test coverage.

Regards,

Tvrtko
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
index 97deec775f40..2d4a54851c0a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c
@@ -47,15 +47,8 @@  shrinker_lock(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags, bool *unlock)
 	case MUTEX_TRYLOCK_FAILED:
 		*unlock = false;
 		if (flags & I915_SHRINK_ACTIVE) {
-			preempt_disable();
-			do {
-				cpu_relax();
-				if (mutex_trylock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex)) {
-					*unlock = true;
-					break;
-				}
-			} while (!need_resched());
-			preempt_enable();
+			mutex_lock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
+			*unlock = true;
 		}
 		return *unlock;