linux/drivers/gpu
Kuo-Hsin Yang fb4b49278f drm/gem: Mark pinned pages as unevictable
The gem drivers use shmemfs to allocate backing storage for gem objects.
On Samsung Chromebook Plus, the drm/rockchip driver may call
rockchip_gem_get_pages -> drm_gem_get_pages -> shmem_read_mapping_page
to pin a lot of pages, breaking the page reclaim mechanism and causing
oom-killer invocation.

E.g. when the size of a zone is 3.9 GiB, the inactive_ratio is 5. If
active_anon / inactive_anon < 5 and all pages in the inactive_anon lru
are pinned, page reclaim would keep scanning inactive_anon lru without
reclaiming memory. It breaks page reclaim when the rockchip driver only
pins about 1/6 of the anon lru pages.

Mark these pinned pages as unevictable to avoid the premature oom-killer
invocation. See also similar patch on i915 driver [1].

[1]: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181106132324.17390-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

Signed-off-by: Kuo-Hsin Yang <vovoy@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190108074517.209860-1-vovoy@chromium.org
2019-01-09 21:24:50 +00:00
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drm drm/gem: Mark pinned pages as unevictable 2019-01-09 21:24:50 +00:00
host1x gpu: host1x: Detach Host1x from IOMMU DMA domain on arm32 2018-09-26 17:11:14 +02:00
ipu-v3 media: v4l: mediabus: Recognise CSI-2 D-PHY and C-PHY 2018-10-04 16:06:15 -04:00
vga drm-misc-next for v4.21, part 1: 2018-11-19 10:40:33 +10:00
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