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

[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 ;)

	-Mike