On 02/19/2013 11:32 PM, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:07:44AM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:43:06AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> On 02/19/2013 12:23 AM, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
>>>> Tomorrow I'll post a patch for page allocation failure.
>>>
>>> What do you mean -- what kind of patch?
>>
>> A patch which will change pgt allocation to use vmalloc.
It's still not in -next. Any plans on this?
> ---
> From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: use vmalloc for pgt allocation
>
> Page tables on nv50 take 48kB, which can be hard to allocate in one piece.
> Let's use vmalloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c
> index 77c67fc..e66fb77 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c
> @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ nouveau_vm_create(struct nouveau_vmmgr *vmm, u64 offset, u64 length,
> vm->fpde = offset >> (vmm->pgt_bits + 12);
> vm->lpde = (offset + length - 1) >> (vmm->pgt_bits + 12);
>
> - vm->pgt = kcalloc(vm->lpde - vm->fpde + 1, sizeof(*vm->pgt), GFP_KERNEL);
> + vm->pgt = vzalloc((vm->lpde - vm->fpde + 1) * sizeof(*vm->pgt));
> if (!vm->pgt) {
> kfree(vm);
> return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ nouveau_vm_create(struct nouveau_vmmgr *vmm, u64 offset, u64 length,
> ret = nouveau_mm_init(&vm->mm, mm_offset >> 12, mm_length >> 12,
> block >> 12);
> if (ret) {
> - kfree(vm->pgt);
> + vfree(vm->pgt);
> kfree(vm);
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ nouveau_vm_del(struct nouveau_vm *vm)
> }
>
> nouveau_mm_fini(&vm->mm);
> - kfree(vm->pgt);
> + vfree(vm->pgt);
> kfree(vm);
> }
>
>
--
js
suse labs
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