Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] drm/ttm: Drop tt->restore after successful restore

From: Thomas Hellström

Date: Tue May 05 2026 - 03:17:55 EST


On Mon, 2026-05-04 at 20:30 -0700, Matthew Brost wrote:
> ttm_pool_restore_and_alloc() can successfully complete the restore
> process via ttm_pool_restore_commit(), but tt->restore is not dropped
> afterward. As a result, subsequent backup/restore flows observe what
> appears to be a completed restore, while in reality shmem handles are
> still installed in tt->pages, leading to the stack trace below.
>
> Fix this by freeing and dropping tt->restore in
> ttm_pool_restore_and_alloc() upon successful completion of the
> restore.
>
> 20545 [  309.784531] RIP:
> 0010:sg_alloc_append_table_from_pages+0x38c/0x490
> 20547 [  309.809570] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000623b838 EFLAGS: 00010206
> 20548 [  309.814827] RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: ffff88816e42a160 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> 20549 [  309.821986] RDX: 0000000000002000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI:
> 0000000000001000
> 20550 [  309.829147] RBP: ffff88816e42a168 R08: 0000000000000002 R09:
> 000000007ffff000
> 20551 [  309.836310] R10: ffffc9000623b928 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
> 000000007ffff000
> 20552 [  309.843471] R13: ffff88815ba5a100 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
> 0000000000000001
> 20553 [  309.850634] FS:  00007f9ff305e700(0000)
> GS:ffff888276c94000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> 20554 [  309.858749] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
> 0000000080050033
> 20555 [  309.864519] CR2: 00007f9fca701000 CR3: 00000001565e2005 CR4:
> 0000000008f70ef0
> 20556 [  309.871678] PKRU: 55555558
> 20557 [  309.874403] Call Trace:
> 20558 [  309.876866]  <TASK>
> 20559 [  309.878988]  sg_alloc_table_from_pages_segment+0x60/0x100
> 20560 [  309.884415]  ? ttm_resource_manager_usage+0x36/0x60 [ttm]
> 20561 [  309.889845]  ? xe_tt_map_sg+0x7d/0xd0 [xe]
> 20562 [  309.894045]  xe_tt_map_sg+0x7d/0xd0 [xe]
> 20563 [  309.898037]  xe_bo_move+0x927/0xaa0 [xe]
> 20564 [  309.902029]  ttm_bo_handle_move_mem+0xba/0x170 [ttm]
> 20565 [  309.907022]  ttm_bo_validate+0xbe/0x190 [ttm]
> 20566 [  309.911405]  xe_bo_validate+0x9a/0x120 [xe]
> 20567 [  309.915663]  xe_gpuvm_validate+0xd9/0x140 [xe]
> 20568 [  309.920206]  drm_gpuvm_validate+0x2f0/0x5b0 [drm_gpuvm]
> 20569 [  309.925459]  ? drm_exec_lock_obj+0x63/0x210 [drm_exec]
> 20570 [  309.930627]  xe_vm_validate_rebind+0x46/0xb0 [xe]
> 20571 [  309.935428]  xe_exec_fn+0x20/0x40 [xe]
> 20572 [  309.939249]  drm_gpuvm_exec_lock+0x78/0xc0 [drm_gpuvm]
> 20573 [  309.944410]  xe_validation_exec_lock+0x5a/0xa0 [xe]
> 20574 [  309.949385]  xe_exec_ioctl+0x806/0xc30 [xe]
> 20575 [  309.953639]  ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xd9/0xf0
> 20576 [  309.957935]  ? __pfx_xe_exec_fn+0x10/0x10 [xe]
> 20577 [  309.962449]  ? __wake_up_common+0x73/0xa0
> 20578 [  309.966482]  ? __pfx_xe_exec_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [xe]
> 20579 [  309.971263]  drm_ioctl_kernel+0xa3/0x100
> 20580 [  309.975209]  drm_ioctl+0x213/0x440
> 20581 [  309.978637]  ? __pfx_xe_exec_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [xe]
> 20582 [  309.983415]  xe_drm_ioctl+0x67/0xd0 [xe]
> 20583 [  309.987408]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7f/0xd0
>
> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: b63d715b8090 ("drm/ttm/pool, drm/ttm/tt: Provide a helper to
> shrink pages")
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> v3:
>  - Call ttm_pool_apply_caching after freeing local restore (sashiko)
>  - Save alloc in snapshot on restore failure (sashiko)
> v4:
>  - Actual 'Save alloc in snapshot on restore failure (sashiko)'
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
> index 278bbe7a11ad..c7aab60b7f01 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
> @@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ int ttm_pool_restore_and_alloc(struct ttm_pool
> *pool, struct ttm_tt *tt,
>  {
>   struct ttm_pool_tt_restore *restore = tt->restore;
>   struct ttm_pool_alloc_state alloc;
> + int ret;
>  
>   if (WARN_ON(!ttm_tt_is_backed_up(tt)))
>   return -EINVAL;
> @@ -925,14 +926,24 @@ int ttm_pool_restore_and_alloc(struct ttm_pool
> *pool, struct ttm_tt *tt,
>   } else {
>   alloc = restore->snapshot_alloc;
>   if (ttm_pool_restore_valid(restore)) {
> - int ret = ttm_pool_restore_commit(restore,
> tt->backup,
> -   ctx,
> &alloc);
> + ret = ttm_pool_restore_commit(restore, tt-
> >backup,
> +       ctx, &alloc);
>  
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + restore->snapshot_alloc = alloc;
>   return ret;
> + }
>   }
> - if (!alloc.remaining_pages)
> + if (!alloc.remaining_pages) {
> + kfree(tt->restore);
> + tt->restore = NULL;
> +
> + ret = ttm_pool_apply_caching(&alloc);

return ttm_pool_apply_caching(&alloc) ?

Otherwise LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
>   return 0;
> + }
>   }
>  
>   return __ttm_pool_alloc(pool, tt, ctx, &alloc, restore);