[PATCH v7 4/5] drm/drm_file: Add DRM obj's RSS reporting function for fdinfo

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 27/09/23 23:29, Adrián Larumbe ha scritto:
> Some BO's might be mapped onto physical memory chunkwise and on demand,
> like Panfrost's tiler heap. In this case, even though the
> drm_gem_shmem_object page array might already be allocated, only a very
> small fraction of the BO is currently backed by system memory, but
> drm_show_memory_stats will then proceed to add its entire virtual size to
> the file's total resident size regardless.
> 
> This led to very unrealistic RSS sizes being reckoned for Panfrost, where
> said tiler heap buffer is initially allocated with a virtual size of 128
> MiB, but only a small part of it will eventually be backed by system memory
> after successive GPU page faults.
> 
> Provide a new DRM object generic function that would allow drivers to
> return a more accurate RSS and purgeable sizes for their BOs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe at collabora.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>