Range-restricted allocations (GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION) go through
__alloc_range_bias(), a depth-first walk over the buddy tree that visits
the higher-address child first. It skips blocks that are too small,
outside the range or ALLOCATED, but always descends SPLIT blocks, even
when nothing below them is free. Range allocations are placed top-down,
so they pack below the range end and each new allocation walks over all
blocks already allocated there: O(N) per allocation, O(N^2) in total,
under the driver's allocator lock.
On small-BAR systems only the start of VRAM is CPU accessible through
the PCI BAR. Drivers restrict every CPU-visible allocation to that
window with a range placement (fpfn = 0, lpfn = BAR size). In xe this
covers every pinned and mapped kernel BO (xe_bo_create_pin_map()),
including all page-table BOs, and user BOs created with
DRM_XE_GEM_CREATE_FLAG_NEEDS_VISIBLE_VRAM.
It is worst when VRAM is large but the BAR covers only part of it. On
the affected platform, VRAM is 160 GiB and the BAR is 32 GiB:
xe_pat@pt-caching-random-offsets creates 2 x 16384 4K BOs with
NEEDS_VISIBLE_VRAM and binds each at a random address in a 57-bit VA
space, which needs about three new page tables per bind. That is about
130k 4K range allocations in the visible window. In CI on a debug kernel
the test hit the 180s inactivity timeout inside gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(),
called from xe_pt_create().
<6> [59.426526] [IGT] xe_pat: executing
<6> [59.436001] [IGT] xe_pat: starting subtest pt-caching-random-offsets
<6> [239.585293] task:xe_pat state:R running task stack:0
pid:3700 tgid:3700 ppid:1957 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000020
<6> [239.585304] Call Trace:
<6> [239.585307] <TASK>
<6> [239.585309] ? irqentry_exit+0x2a2/0x8d0
<6> [239.585314] ? trace_hardirqs_off_finish+0xc7/0xe0
<6> [239.585320] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0xc0
<6> [239.585326] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20
<6> [239.585334] ? gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks+0x442/0xec0
<6> [239.585341] ? gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks+0xa37/0xec0
<6> [239.585353] ? xe_ttm_vram_mgr_new+0x1c7/0x340 [xe]
<6> [239.585506] ? ttm_resource_alloc+0x50/0xd0 [ttm]
<6> [239.585518] ? ttm_bo_alloc_at_place+0x84/0x180 [ttm]
<6> [239.585527] ? ttm_bo_alloc_resource+0x115/0x5e0 [ttm]
<6> [239.585538] ? ttm_bo_validate+0x94/0x1c0 [ttm]
<6> [239.585546] ? lock_is_held_type+0xa3/0x130
<6> [239.585552] ? ttm_bo_init_reserved+0xa5/0x1f0 [ttm]
<6> [239.585560] ? xe_bo_init_locked+0x20a/0x650 [xe]
<6> [239.585616] ? __pfx_xe_ttm_bo_destroy+0x10/0x10 [xe]
<6> [239.585672] ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x28/0x960
<6> [239.585679] ? __xe_bo_create_locked+0xb1/0xa20 [xe]
<6> [239.585733] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x52/0x80
<6> [239.585743] ? __create_object+0x67/0xe0
<6> [239.585747] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x22/0xe0
<6> [239.585753] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x52/0x80
<6> [239.585760] ? xe_bo_create_pin_map_at_aligned+0x51/0x1f0 [xe]
<6> [239.585813] ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x494/0x670
<6> [239.585819] ? xe_bo_create_pin_map+0x1f/0x40 [xe]
<6> [239.585870] ? xe_pt_create+0xb5/0x430 [xe]
Patch 1 tracks, per block, the largest order of any FREE block in its
subtree and lets __alloc_range_bias() skip subtrees that cannot satisfy
the request. Skipped subtrees contain nothing the old walk could split
or return, and the remaining blocks are visited in the same order, so
the selected block and placement are unchanged. The new s8 field uses
existing tail padding.
Patch 2 adds KUnit tests. One fills a range prefix the way small-BAR
drivers do and checks pruning deterministically by hiding a free block
behind an ancestor that reports no free space. The other checks the
metadata of every block after each state change, including coalescing,
rollback of a partial allocation, and trim.
Results
n_alloc avg_blocks_visited avg_allocation_time
without fix with fix without fix with fix
4096 4141 46 10.7 us 0.293 us
65536 127041 48 536 us 0.259 us
126976 249911 47 1.46 ms 0.283 us
Sanjay Yadav (2):
gpu/buddy: Prune exhausted subtrees in range-biased allocation
gpu/tests/buddy: Add range-bias pruning and free-order tracking tests
drivers/gpu/buddy.c | 31 +++
drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c | 307 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/gpu_buddy.h | 7 +
3 files changed, 345 insertions(+)
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