Re: drm/nouneau: 5.11 cycle regression bisected to 461619f5c324 "drm/nouveau: switch to new allocator"

[Christian König]

Am 10.02.21 um 16:30 schrieb Mike Galbraith:
> On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 14:26 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> > Am 10.02.21 um 13:22 schrieb Mike Galbraith:
> > > On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 12:44 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> > > > Please try to add a "return NULL" at the beginning of ttm_pool_type_take().
> > > >
> > > > That should effectively disable using the pool.
> > > That did away with the yield looping, but it doesn't take long for the
> > > display to freeze.  I ssh'd in from lappy, but there was nada in dmesg.
> > Yeah, that is expected. Without taking pages from the pool we leak
> > memory like sieve.
> >
> > At least we could narrow down the problem quite a bit with that.
> >
> > Can you test the attached patch and see if it helps?
> Yup, that seems to have fixed it all up.  Another one bites the dust ;)

Ah! So basically nouveau relies on that the pages are cleared.

Yeah, that wasn't consitently implemented before. Some code path was 
clearing the page, some wasn't.

Any objections that I add a Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith 
<efault@xxxxxx> ?

Regards,
Christian.

> 	-Mike