+ drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch added to -mm tree

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Subject: + drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch added to -mm tree
To: daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx,Knut_Petersen@xxxxxxxxxxx,david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,glommer@xxxxxxxxx,glommer@xxxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,mgorman@xxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,riel@xxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:54:43 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: drm/i915: Fix up usage of SHRINK_STOP
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch

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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: drm/i915: Fix up usage of SHRINK_STOP

In

commit 81e49f811404f428a9d9a63295a0c267e802fa12
Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Aug 28 10:18:13 2013 +1000

    i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex

SHRINK_STOP was added to tell the core shrinker code to bail out and go to
the next shrinker since the i915 shrinker couldn't acquire required locks.
 But the SHRINK_STOP return code was added to the ->count_objects callback
and not the ->scan_objects callback as it should have been, resulting in
tons of dmesg noise like

shrink_slab: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0/0x9c negative objects to delete nr=-xxxxxxxxx

Fix discusssed with Dave Chinner.

References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/intel-gfx/msg33597.html
Reported-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c~drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c~drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop
+++ a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4800,10 +4800,10 @@ i915_gem_inactive_count(struct shrinker
 
 	if (!mutex_trylock(&dev->struct_mutex)) {
 		if (!mutex_is_locked_by(&dev->struct_mutex, current))
-			return SHRINK_STOP;
+			return 0;
 
 		if (dev_priv->mm.shrinker_no_lock_stealing)
-			return SHRINK_STOP;
+			return 0;
 
 		unlock = false;
 	}
@@ -4901,10 +4901,10 @@ i915_gem_inactive_scan(struct shrinker *
 
 	if (!mutex_trylock(&dev->struct_mutex)) {
 		if (!mutex_is_locked_by(&dev->struct_mutex, current))
-			return 0;
+			return SHRINK_STOP;
 
 		if (dev_priv->mm.shrinker_no_lock_stealing)
-			return 0;
+			return SHRINK_STOP;
 
 		unlock = false;
 	}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx are

drm-i915-fix-up-usage-of-shrink_stop.patch
drm-fb-helper-dont-sleep-for-screen-unblank-when-an-oopps-is-in-progress.patch
linux-next.patch

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