Hi Matthew,

I have sent the v5.
Could you please review patch 1, as it needs immediate attention due to the DAL CI IGT test failure and should be pushed to the internal branch ASAP.
The review of Patch 2 can follow later when you have time.

Thanks,
Arun.

On 10/19/2026 10:20 AM, Arunpravin Paneer Selvam wrote:


On 10/13/2026 8:36 PM, Matthew Auld wrote:
Hey,

Yes, going to go through it now. Did you already look over the Sashiko reports: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261009100546.1103622-1-arunpravin.paneerselvam%40amd.com

Are they all false positive? I wanted to hold off reviewing if you were going to re-spin.
I am preparing a patch to address the issues reported by Sashiko.

Also, on the "bugs" tab in Sashiko there was one open buddy issue, which I sent a fix for: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-xe/[email protected]/

Please take a look at that.
Sure. I will also take a look at the buddy fix you sent.

Thanks,
Arun.

On 13/10/2026 15:31, Arunpravin Paneer Selvam wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Could you please review the v4.

Thanks,
Arun.

On 10/9/2026 3:35 PM, Arunpravin Paneer Selvam wrote:
From: Arunpravin Paneer Selvam <[email protected]>

Range-restricted allocations (the visible-VRAM aperture) skip
dirty_steer_window() and reach __alloc_range_bias() with no clear/dirty eligibility guard, so a dirty allocation freely splits clear extents (and vice versa), interleaving the two classes until no large same-class run
survives and a 4K scanout pin fails with -ENOSPC. Use a two-pass range
search instead: block_incompatible() rejects opposite-class blocks in the strict pass and relaxes only when the strict pass returns -ENOSPC, so a
request still succeeds when only opposite-class space remains. A KUnit
regression test covers the interleaving pattern and fails without the
guard.

Fixes: 1ad5e807f716 ("gpu/buddy: replace dual-tree/force_merge with decoupled dirty tracker")
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Matthew Auld <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian König <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arunpravin Paneer Selvam <[email protected]>
---
  drivers/gpu/buddy.c                | 71 ++++++++++++++----------------
  drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/buddy.c b/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
index 2f2aaadafe35..6566bad4fef1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/buddy.c
@@ -1240,11 +1240,19 @@ static void __gpu_buddy_undo_splits(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
      }
  }
+static bool block_incompatible(struct gpu_buddy_block *block, unsigned int flags)
+{
+    bool needs_clear = flags & GPU_BUDDY_CLEAR_ALLOCATION;
+
+    return needs_clear != gpu_buddy_block_is_clear(block);
+}
+
  static struct gpu_buddy_block *
  __alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
             u64 start, u64 end,
             unsigned int order,
-           unsigned long flags)
+           unsigned long flags,
+           bool fallback)
  {
      u64 req_size = mm->chunk_size << order;
      struct gpu_buddy_block *block;
@@ -1258,9 +1266,7 @@ __alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
       * This range-constrained search hands back the highest/right-most        * address that satisfies the request: the roots are seeded high-to-low        * and the right (higher-address) child is descended first, making -     * top-down the default placement here. A non-top-down clear request is -     * the only exception, where the descent is biased towards clear or
-     * clear-containing subtrees to satisfy the clear preference.
+     * top-down the default placement here.
       */
      for (i = mm->n_roots - 1; i >= 0; --i)
          list_add_tail(&mm->roots[i]->tmp_link, &dfs);
@@ -1298,6 +1304,9 @@ __alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
                  continue;
          }
+        if (!fallback && block_incompatible(block, flags))
+            continue;
+
          if (contains(start, end, block_start, block_end) &&
              order == gpu_buddy_block_order(block)) {
              /*
@@ -1315,38 +1324,8 @@ __alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
                  goto err_undo;
          }
-        /*
-         * Top-down is a strict address-placement policy, so when it is
-         * requested we ignore clear steering and simply descend the
-         * right (higher-address) child first. Only a non-top-down clear -         * request biases the descent towards clear/has_clear subtrees.
-         */
-        if ((flags & GPU_BUDDY_CLEAR_ALLOCATION) &&
-            !(flags & GPU_BUDDY_TOPDOWN_ALLOCATION)) {
-            struct gpu_buddy_block *prefer;
-
-            if (gpu_buddy_block_is_clear(block->right))
-                prefer = block->right;
-            else if (gpu_buddy_block_is_clear(block->left))
-                prefer = block->left;
-            else if (block->right->has_clear)
-                prefer = block->right;
-            else if (block->left->has_clear)
-                prefer = block->left;
-            else
-                prefer = block->right;
-
-            if (prefer == block->right) {
-                list_add(&block->left->tmp_link, &dfs);
-                list_add(&block->right->tmp_link, &dfs);
-            } else {
-                list_add(&block->right->tmp_link, &dfs);
-                list_add(&block->left->tmp_link, &dfs);
-            }
-        } else {
-            list_add(&block->left->tmp_link, &dfs);
-            list_add(&block->right->tmp_link, &dfs);
-        }
+        list_add(&block->left->tmp_link, &dfs);
+        list_add(&block->right->tmp_link, &dfs);
      } while (1);
      return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
@@ -1361,6 +1340,24 @@ __alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
      return ERR_PTR(err);
  }
+static struct gpu_buddy_block *
+__gpu_buddy_alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
+                 u64 start, u64 end,
+                 unsigned int order,
+                 unsigned long flags)
+{
+    struct gpu_buddy_block *block;
+    bool fallback = false;
+
+    block = __alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order,
+                   flags, fallback);
+    if (IS_ERR(block))
+        return __alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order,
+                      flags, !fallback);
+
+    return block;
+}
+
  /* Return the highest-address free block of at least @order. */
  static struct gpu_buddy_block *
  get_maxblock(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
@@ -1924,7 +1921,7 @@ __gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct gpu_buddy *mm,
      if (flags & GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION) {
          /* Allocate traversing within the range */
-        block = __alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order, flags);
+        block = __gpu_buddy_alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order, flags);
          if (!IS_ERR(block) || !steered)
              return block;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c b/drivers/gpu/tests/ gpu_buddy_test.c
index b75d32ca6ca0..3eaa261571bf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c
@@ -1597,6 +1597,70 @@ static int gpu_buddy_suite_init(struct kunit_suite *suite)
      return 0;
  }
+static void gpu_test_buddy_alloc_range_clear_guard(struct kunit *test)
+{
+    const unsigned long chunk = SZ_1M, mm_size = SZ_4M;
+    struct gpu_buddy_block *block;
+    LIST_HEAD(high_clear_a);
+    LIST_HEAD(high_clear_b);
+    LIST_HEAD(low_dirty);
+    struct gpu_buddy mm;
+    LIST_HEAD(barrier);
+    LIST_HEAD(result);
+
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test, gpu_buddy_init(&mm, mm_size, chunk),
+                   "buddy_init failed\n");
+
+    /*
+     * Lay out a 4 MiB aperture as three regions:
+     *
+     *   [0,  1M)   dirty free
+     *   [1M, 2M)   allocated  (barrier, keeps the two halves un- mergeable)
+     *   [2M, 4M)   clear free (one naturally aligned 2 MiB extent)
+     *
+     * A dirty (non-clear) range allocation must take the low dirty block
+     * and leave the large clear extent intact. Without the guard the
+     * top-down search cuts the higher clear extent instead and returns a +     * clear block -- the interleaving that fragments the aperture and
+     * ultimately fails a large same-class scanout allocation.
+     */
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test,
+                   gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(&mm, 0, chunk, chunk, chunk, +                              &low_dirty, GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION),
+                   "alloc [0, 1M) failed\n");
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test,
+                   gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(&mm, chunk, 2 * chunk, chunk, chunk,
+                              &barrier, GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION),
+                   "alloc [1M, 2M) failed\n");
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test,
+                   gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(&mm, 2 * chunk, 3 * chunk, chunk, chunk, +                              &high_clear_a, GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION),
+                   "alloc [2M, 3M) failed\n");
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test,
+                   gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(&mm, 3 * chunk, 4 * chunk, chunk, chunk, +                              &high_clear_b, GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION),
+                   "alloc [3M, 4M) failed\n");
+
+    /* [2M, 4M) coalesces into one aligned clear extent; [0, 1M) stays dirty. */
+    gpu_buddy_free_list(&mm, &low_dirty, 0);
+    gpu_buddy_free_list(&mm, &high_clear_a, GPU_BUDDY_CLEARED);
+    gpu_buddy_free_list(&mm, &high_clear_b, GPU_BUDDY_CLEARED);
+
+    KUNIT_ASSERT_FALSE_MSG(test,
+                   gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(&mm, 0, mm_size, chunk, chunk,
+                              &result, GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION),
+                   "dirty range alloc failed\n");
+
+    block = list_first_entry(&result, struct gpu_buddy_block, link);
+    KUNIT_EXPECT_FALSE_MSG(test, gpu_buddy_block_is_clear(block),
+                   "dirty range alloc cut the clear extent (offset=%llx)\n",
+                   gpu_buddy_block_offset(block));
+
+    gpu_buddy_free_list(&mm, &result, 0);
+    gpu_buddy_free_list(&mm, &barrier, 0);
+    gpu_buddy_fini(&mm);
+}
+
  static struct kunit_case gpu_buddy_tests[] = {
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_limit),
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_optimistic),
@@ -1606,6 +1670,7 @@ static struct kunit_case gpu_buddy_tests[] = {
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_clear),
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_range),
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_range_bias),
+    KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_range_clear_guard),
KUNIT_CASE_SLOW(gpu_test_buddy_fragmentation_performance),
KUNIT_CASE_SLOW(gpu_test_buddy_dirty_tracker_performance),
      KUNIT_CASE(gpu_test_buddy_alloc_exceeds_max_order),

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