This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Move the release of PT page to the upper caller to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-i915-move-the-release-of-pt-page-to-the-upper-caller.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a18dbba8f01ffae229d00517994f84e7bfad4c49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:55:16 +0800 Subject: drm/i915: Move the release of PT page to the upper caller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx> commit a18dbba8f01ffae229d00517994f84e7bfad4c49 upstream. a PT page will be released if it doesn't contain any meaningful mappings during PPGTT page table shrinking. The PT entry in the upper level will be set to a scratch entry. Normally this works nicely, but in virtualization world, the PPGTT page table is tracked by hypervisor. Releasing the PT page before modifying the upper level PT entry would cause extra efforts. As the tracked page has been returned to OS before losing track from hypervisor, it could be written in any pattern. Hypervisor has to recognize if a page is still being used as a PT page by validating these writing patterns. It's complicated. Better let the guest modify the PT entry in upper level PT first, then release the PT page. Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhiyuan Lv <zhiyuan.lv@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/122697/msgid/1479728666-25333-1-git-send-email-zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1480402516-22275-1-git-send-email-zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c @@ -736,10 +736,8 @@ static bool gen8_ppgtt_clear_pt(struct i bitmap_clear(pt->used_ptes, pte, num_entries); - if (bitmap_empty(pt->used_ptes, GEN8_PTES)) { - free_pt(to_i915(vm->dev), pt); + if (bitmap_empty(pt->used_ptes, GEN8_PTES)) return true; - } pt_vaddr = kmap_px(pt); @@ -775,13 +773,12 @@ static bool gen8_ppgtt_clear_pd(struct i pde_vaddr = kmap_px(pd); pde_vaddr[pde] = scratch_pde; kunmap_px(ppgtt, pde_vaddr); + free_pt(to_i915(vm->dev), pt); } } - if (bitmap_empty(pd->used_pdes, I915_PDES)) { - free_pd(to_i915(vm->dev), pd); + if (bitmap_empty(pd->used_pdes, I915_PDES)) return true; - } return false; } @@ -795,7 +792,6 @@ static bool gen8_ppgtt_clear_pdp(struct uint64_t length) { struct i915_hw_ppgtt *ppgtt = i915_vm_to_ppgtt(vm); - struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(vm->dev); struct i915_page_directory *pd; uint64_t pdpe; gen8_ppgtt_pdpe_t *pdpe_vaddr; @@ -813,16 +809,14 @@ static bool gen8_ppgtt_clear_pdp(struct pdpe_vaddr[pdpe] = scratch_pdpe; kunmap_px(ppgtt, pdpe_vaddr); } + free_pd(to_i915(vm->dev), pd); } } mark_tlbs_dirty(ppgtt); - if (USES_FULL_48BIT_PPGTT(dev_priv) && - bitmap_empty(pdp->used_pdpes, I915_PDPES_PER_PDP(dev_priv))) { - free_pdp(dev_priv, pdp); + if (bitmap_empty(pdp->used_pdpes, I915_PDPES_PER_PDP(dev_priv))) return true; - } return false; } @@ -836,6 +830,7 @@ static void gen8_ppgtt_clear_pml4(struct uint64_t start, uint64_t length) { + struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(vm->dev); struct i915_hw_ppgtt *ppgtt = i915_vm_to_ppgtt(vm); struct i915_page_directory_pointer *pdp; uint64_t pml4e; @@ -854,6 +849,7 @@ static void gen8_ppgtt_clear_pml4(struct pml4e_vaddr = kmap_px(pml4); pml4e_vaddr[pml4e] = scratch_pml4e; kunmap_px(ppgtt, pml4e_vaddr); + free_pdp(dev_priv, pdp); } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhi.a.wang@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/drm-i915-let-execlist_update_context-cover-full_ppgtt-mode.patch queue-4.10/drm-i915-move-the-release-of-pt-page-to-the-upper-caller.patch queue-4.10/drm-i915-kvmgt-hold-struct-kvm-reference.patch queue-4.10/drm-i915-a-hotfix-for-making-aliasing-ppgtt-work-for-gvt-g.patch