drm/i915: Only free the oldest stale object before a fresh allocation

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Inspired by Tvrtko's critique of the reaping of the stale contexts
before allocating a new one, also limit the freed object reaping to the
oldest stale object before allocating a fresh object. Unlike contexts,
objects may have radically different sizes of backing storage, but
similar to contexts, while we want to prevent starvation due to
excessive freed lists, we also do not want to delay fresh allocations
for too long. Only freeing the oldest on the freed object list before
each allocation is a reasonable compromise.

v2: Only a single consumer of llist_del_first() is allowed (although
multiple llist_add are still allowed in parallel). Unlike
i915_gem_context, i915_gem_flush_free_objects() is itself not serialized
and so we need to add our own spinlock. Otherwise KASAN eventually spots
a use-after-free for the race on *first->next.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> #v1
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171013202621.7276-8-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h

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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c

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