[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use NOEVICT for first pass on attemping to pin a GGTT mmap

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Aug 26 13:07:50 UTC 2019


The intention is that we first try to pin the current vma into the
mappable aperture only if it is already in use or t fits in the free
space and will not cause contention. The first attempt was meant to be
using PIN_NOEVICT to reuse the current vma if possible, following up
with different eviction strategies.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111485
Fixes: 6846895fde05 ("drm/i915: Replace PIN_NONFAULT with calls to PIN_NOEVICT")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
index 595539a09e38..261c9bd83f51 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_mman.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ vm_fault_t i915_gem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	vma = i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin(obj, NULL, 0, 0,
 				       PIN_MAPPABLE |
 				       PIN_NONBLOCK /* NOWARN */ |
-				       PIN_NOSEARCH);
+				       PIN_NOEVICT);
 	if (IS_ERR(vma)) {
 		/* Use a partial view if it is bigger than available space */
 		struct i915_ggtt_view view =
-- 
2.23.0



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