[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/11] drm/i915: Mark a temporary allocation for copy-from-user as such

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Jan 8 11:53:13 CET 2013


The difference is that the kernel will then know that this memory will
be reclaimable in the near future.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index daa5409..27e2bf6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer2(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 	}
 
 	exec2_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*exec2_list)*args->buffer_count,
-			     GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
+			     GFP_TEMPORARY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
 	if (exec2_list == NULL)
 		exec2_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*exec2_list),
 					   args->buffer_count);
-- 
1.7.10.4




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