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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:34:04 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Luca Pizzamiglio <l.pizzamiglio@bally-wulff.de>, Soeren Straarup <xride@x12.dk>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel KMS: a memory problem
Message-ID:  <20120614173404.GE2337@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20120614170623.GD2337@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 08:06:23PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:29:40AM +0200, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> > On 06/13/12 13:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> > >>Hi people,
> > >>
> > >>I'm using 9-RELENG with KMS and the last port updated on a SandyBridge
> > >>platform (Intel Graphics)
> > >>With a quite simple openGL application, a panic occurred:
> > >>
> > >>panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory
> > >>Tracing pid 944 tid 100105 td 0xca85c8a0
> > >>kdb_enter(c0ffe535,c0ffe535,c103dcff,efa62ac0,1,...) at kdb_enter+0x3a
> > >>panic(c103dcff,5000,c9879151,0,c1a02000,...) at panic+0x18c
> > >>pmap_mapdev_attr(c1a02000,4800,1,1,c911d980,...) at pmap_mapdev_attr+=
0x7e
> > >>i915_gem_obj_io(2d014008,0,4800,0,0,...) at i915_gem_obj_io+0x513
> > >>i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl(c9925800,ca827120,ca871300,c0a78b5b,efa62bd4,..=
.)
> > >>at i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl+0x4b
> > >>drm_ioctl(c97e0400,8020645d,ca827120,3,ca85c8a0,...) at drm_ioctl+0x2=
d8
> > >>devfs_ioctl_f(c91cb850,8020645d,ca827120,c91b5e80,ca85c8a0,...) at
> > >>devfs_ioctl_f+0x10a
> > >>kern_ioctl(ca85c8a0,4,8020645d,ca827120,a62ccc,...) at kern_ioctl+0x2=
a0
> > >>sys_ioctl(ca85c8a0,efa62ccc,c67c4c80,293d3b4e,1,...) at sys_ioctl+0x1=
34
> > >>syscall(efa62d08) at syscall+0x34a
> > >>Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x21
> > >>--- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF32, sys_ioctl), eip =3D 0x293d5b93, esp =
=3D
> > >>0xbfbf7f4c, ebp =3D 0xbfbf7f68 ---
> > >>
> > >>I tried to increase vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max to 512M, but the
> > >>problem persists.
> > >>
> > >>Any easy idea or workaround?
> > >>In the meanwhile, I'll try to investigate this problem deeper.
> > >
> > >You are probably first who run 32bit kernel on SandyBridge + GEMified
> > >i915 driver.
> > >
> > > From the trace you provided it seems that kernel was unable to find
> > >a free area in KVA for 5 consequtive pages. I would think that you have
> > >relatively high fragmentation of KVA. What load on machine is ?
> > >
> > >Actually, quite some time ago, i915_gem_gtt_write() did mapped gtt
> > >page by page, instead of mapping the whole range of pages undergoing i=
/o.
> > >I was pointed out that this was major performance bootleneck for GTT
> > >mapped objects. It might be reasonable to restore the slow mode for
> > >32bit kernels, since people running such kernels on SandyBridge defini=
tely
> > >do not care about performance.
> > >
> >=20
> > Hi Konstantin,
> > Thanks for the quick reply!
> > yes, maybe I'm the first using 32bit architecture on SandyBridge, but=
=20
> > for some internal conflicts (human ones) I should use 32 bit version an=
d=20
> > performance is an important topic.
> > It's quite strange what are you saying about KVA fragmentation, the loa=
d=20
> > of the machine is really low < 0.3; test scenario is: boot, starting X=
=20
> > with twm and launching our openGL application.. after a couple of=20
> > minutes, it panics. The openGL application draw a black screen and some=
=20
> > lines to show performance indexes, like CPU percentage usage, time per=
=20
> > frame, and so on. CPU percentage is about 7-9%.
> > The system has 4 GB of memory, but only 3GB are addressable.
> > Any idea how could I monitor memory fragmentation?
> Ok, there was second report of the same panic.
>=20
> Please apply the debugging patch from the end of message, and show
> me the panic message after.
>=20
> >=20
> > I would like to try PAE extension to address more memory or use 64 bit=
=20
> > world with the 32 bit compatibility layer. PAE extension is easy to=20
> > test, but for 64bit I need to delete&reinstall&recompile everything...
>=20
> I am sure that i915 does not work with PAE, probably not even compiles.
>=20
> diff --git a/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c b/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c
> index d02f00e..e15d24f 100644
> --- a/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c
> +++ b/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c
> @@ -4983,8 +4983,10 @@ pmap_mapdev_attr(vm_paddr_t pa, vm_size_t size, in=
t mode)
>  		va =3D KERNBASE + pa;
>  	else
>  		va =3D kmem_alloc_nofault(kernel_map, size);
> -	if (!va)
> -		panic("pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory");
> +	if (va =3D=3D 0) {
> +		panic("pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory, "
> +		    "size %d", size);
> +	}
> =20
>  	for (tmpsize =3D 0; tmpsize < size; tmpsize +=3D PAGE_SIZE)
>  		pmap_kenter_attr(va + tmpsize, pa + tmpsize, mode);

Hm, I think I see an issue that could be very well the cause of the
trouble. Please also apply the patch below.

diff --git a/sys/dev/drm2/i915/i915_gem.c b/sys/dev/drm2/i915/i915_gem.c
index ca531fb..73c0b53 100644
--- a/sys/dev/drm2/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/sys/dev/drm2/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ i915_gem_gtt_write(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm=
_i915_gem_object *obj,
 	    IDX_TO_OFF(obj_pi), size, PAT_WRITE_COMBINING);
 	ret =3D -copyin_nofault((void *)(uintptr_t)data_ptr, (char *)mkva +
 	    obj_po, size);
-	pmap_unmapdev(mkva, PAGE_SIZE);
+	pmap_unmapdev(mkva, size);
 	return (ret);
 }
=20

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