drm/i915: Use pagecache write to prepopulate shmemfs from pwrite-ioctl
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:03:38 +0000 (12:03 +0000)
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:46:07 +0000 (10:46 +0200)
commit4e6fdafa7ac395ad47a80a0e7b4fd1e11550f862
treec0bd35095b4fa8dd45da44bc6dd40ef2bd3fa092
parent0d9dc306e15b59bf50db87ebcb1e2248586d4733
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: fe115628d567 ("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 7c55e2c5772dcf3cbacd0fa2bcfeefae416b73f7)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h