Re: WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/mm.c:242

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Tue Feb 19 2013 - 17:33:00 EST


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:
> > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:27:43AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> we have a report of WARNING from 3.7.6 in nouveau at
> > >> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/mm.c:242 here:
> > >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802347#c11
> > >>
> > >> There is an order 4 allocation failure in nouveau_drm_open ->
> > >> nouveau_vm_create, i.e. this one failed:
> > >> vm->pgt = kcalloc(vm->lpde - vm->fpde + 1, sizeof(*vm->pgt), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >>
> > >> Then, on the error path in still in nouveau_drm_open, it is followed by
> > >> a call to nouveau_cli_destroy. But that one calls nouveau_vm_ref ->
> > >> nouveau_mm_fini -> nouveau_vm_del -> nouveau_mm_fini which triggers the
> > >> warning.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Crash/warning should be fixed by commit cfd376b6bfccf33782a0748a9c70f7f752f8b869
> > > "drm/nouveau/vm: fix memory corruption when pgt allocation fails".
> >
> > Oh, thanks for the pointer. Could that bug cause real "memory
> > corruption"? As we're hunting one there...
>
> Yes.
>
> > Isn't this a stable-3.7 candidate?
>
> Should have been :/.
>
> > > 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.

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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);
}

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