drm/i915: Use a slab for object allocation

The primary purpose of this was to debug some use-after-free memory
corruption that was causing an OOPS inside drm/i915. As it turned out
the corruption was being caused elsewhere and i915.ko as a major user of
many objects was being hit hardest.

Indeed as we do frequent the generic kmalloc caches, dedicating one to
ourselves (or at least naming one for us depending upon the core) aids
debugging our own slab usage.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 3de62b0127a..dfe7174a7c0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -192,6 +192,18 @@ i915_gem_get_aperture_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+void *i915_gem_object_alloc(struct drm_device *dev)
+{
+	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(dev_priv->slab, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+
+void i915_gem_object_free(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
+{
+	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = obj->base.dev->dev_private;
+	kmem_cache_free(dev_priv->slab, obj);
+}
+
 static int
 i915_gem_create(struct drm_file *file,
 		struct drm_device *dev,
@@ -215,7 +227,7 @@ i915_gem_create(struct drm_file *file,
 	if (ret) {
 		drm_gem_object_release(&obj->base);
 		i915_gem_info_remove_obj(dev->dev_private, obj->base.size);
-		kfree(obj);
+		i915_gem_object_free(obj);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
@@ -3695,12 +3707,12 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object *i915_gem_alloc_object(struct drm_device *dev,
 	struct address_space *mapping;
 	u32 mask;
 
-	obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+	obj = i915_gem_object_alloc(dev);
 	if (obj == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (drm_gem_object_init(dev, &obj->base, size) != 0) {
-		kfree(obj);
+		i915_gem_object_free(obj);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -3783,7 +3795,7 @@ void i915_gem_free_object(struct drm_gem_object *gem_obj)
 	i915_gem_info_remove_obj(dev_priv, obj->base.size);
 
 	kfree(obj->bit_17);
-	kfree(obj);
+	i915_gem_object_free(obj);
 }
 
 int
@@ -4101,8 +4113,14 @@ init_ring_lists(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
 void
 i915_gem_load(struct drm_device *dev)
 {
-	int i;
 	drm_i915_private_t *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
+	int i;
+
+	dev_priv->slab =
+		kmem_cache_create("i915_gem_object",
+				  sizeof(struct drm_i915_gem_object), 0,
+				  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
+				  NULL);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.active_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.inactive_list);