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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index a9bc979e0cbd..4704cfe93279 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1490,6 +1490,9 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
 	 * always the inner lock when overlapping with struct_mutex. */
 	struct mutex stolen_lock;
 
+	/* Protects bound_list/unbound_list and #drm_i915_gem_object.mm.link */
+	spinlock_t obj_lock;
+
 	/** List of all objects in gtt_space. Used to restore gtt
 	 * mappings on resume */
 	struct list_head bound_list;