[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/guc: Allocate non-swappable memory for internal objects

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Jul 18 09:29:42 UTC 2019


All internal GuC objects are perma-pinned into the GGTT and thus
not-swapped. We do not need to allocate a shmemfs inode for these,
merely a collection of pages to be kept in memory.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c
index 83f2c197375f..d66f8f9c5654 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc.c
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ struct i915_vma *intel_guc_allocate_vma(struct intel_guc *guc, u32 size)
 	u64 flags;
 	int ret;
 
-	obj = i915_gem_object_create_shmem(gt->i915, size);
+	obj = i915_gem_object_create_internal(gt->i915, size);
 	if (IS_ERR(obj))
 		return ERR_CAST(obj);
 
-- 
2.22.0



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