drm/i915: Move dev_priv->mm.[un]bound_list to its own lock

Remove the struct_mutex requirement around dev_priv->mm.bound_list and
dev_priv->mm.unbound_list by giving it its own spinlock. This reduces
one more requirement for struct_mutex and in the process gives us
slightly more accurate unbound_list tracking, which should improve the
shrinker - but the drawback is that we drop the retirement before
counting so i915_gem_object_is_active() may be stale and lead us to
underestimate the number of objects that may be shrunk (see commit
bed50aea61df ("drm/i915/shrinker: Flush active on objects before
counting")).

v2: Crosslink the spinlock to the lists it protects, and btw this
changes s/obj->global_link/obj->mm.link/
v3: Fix decoupling of old links in i915_gem_object_attach_phys()
v3.1: Fix the fix, only unlink if it was linked
v3.2: Use a local for to_i915(obj->base.dev)->mm.obj_lock

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171016114037.5556-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
index 54fd4cf..03e7abc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_stolen.c
@@ -724,8 +724,11 @@ i915_gem_object_create_stolen_for_preallocated(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv
 	vma->flags |= I915_VMA_GLOBAL_BIND;
 	__i915_vma_set_map_and_fenceable(vma);
 	list_move_tail(&vma->vm_link, &ggtt->base.inactive_list);
-	list_move_tail(&obj->global_link, &dev_priv->mm.bound_list);
+
+	spin_lock(&dev_priv->mm.obj_lock);
+	list_move_tail(&obj->mm.link, &dev_priv->mm.bound_list);
 	obj->bind_count++;
+	spin_unlock(&dev_priv->mm.obj_lock);
 
 	return obj;