On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:05:16AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:51:36AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:05:02PM +0000, rafael.barba...@intel.com wrote: > > > From: Rafael Barbalho <rafael.barba...@intel.com> > > > > > > With full PPGTT enabled an object's VMA entry into a PPGTT VM needs to be > > > cleaned up so that the PPGTT PDE & PTE allocations can be freed. > > > > > > This problem only shows up with full PPGTT because an object's VMA is > > > only cleaned-up when the object is destroyed. However, if the object has > > > been shared between multiple processes this may not happen, which leads to > > > references to the PPGTT still being kept the object was shared. > > > > > > Under android the sharing of GEM objects is a fairly common operation, > > > thus > > > the clean-up has to be more agressive. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael Barbalho <rafael.barba...@intel.com> > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> > > > Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfi...@intel.com> > > > > So when we've merged this we iirc talked about this issue and decided that > > the shrinker should be good enough in cleaning up the crap from shared > > objects. Not a pretty solution, but it should have worked. > > > > Is this again the lowmemory killer wreaking havoc with our i915 shrinker, > > or is there something else going on? And do you have some igt testcase for > > this? If sharing is all that's required the following should do the trick: > > 1. allocate obj > > 2. create new context > > 3. do dummy execbuf with that obj to map it into the ppgtt > > 4. free context > > 5. goto 2 often enough to OOM > > You know I have patches to fix all of this... It just happens to fall > out of tracking vma in requests, and by extension vm.
Since you replied to my description of the igt testcase ... What kind of bugs do you mean? I kinda can't find the context here ... -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
