linux/drivers/gpu
Chris Wilson 4e6fdafa7a drm/i915: Use pagecache write to prepopulate shmemfs from pwrite-ioctl
Before we instantiate/pin the backing store for our use, we
can prepopulate the shmemfs filp efficiently using a write into the
pagecache. We avoid the penalty of instantiating all the pages, important
if the user is just writing to a few and never uses the object on the GPU,
and using a direct write into shmemfs allows it to avoid the cost of
retrieving a page (mostly the clear-before-use, but in theory we could
curtail swapin) before it is overwritten.

This can be extended later to provide additional specialisation for
other backends (other than shmemfs). For now it provides a defense
against very large write-only allocations from exhausting all of system
memory.

v2: Smelling fixes.

Fixes: fe115628d5 ("drm/i915: Implement pwrite without struct-mutex")
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99107
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.10+
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170307120338.7277-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 7c55e2c577)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2017-03-09 10:46:07 +02:00
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drm drm/i915: Use pagecache write to prepopulate shmemfs from pwrite-ioctl 2017-03-09 10:46:07 +02:00
host1x gpu: host1x: Set OF node for new host1x devices 2017-01-30 11:47:44 +01:00
ipu-v3 gpu: ipu-v3: Stop overwriting pdev->dev.of_node of child devices 2017-02-17 08:04:27 +01:00
vga sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
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