On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:16:38 +0100
Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On successful vmap, set the page_mark_accessed_on_put and _dirty_on_put
> flags in the gem-shmem object. Signals that the contained pages require
> LRU and dirty tracking when they are being released back to SHMEM. Clear
> these flags on put, so that buffer remains quiet until the next call to
> vmap. There's no means of handling dirty status in vmap as there's no
> write-only mapping available.
> 
> Both flags, _accessed_on_put and _dirty_on_put, have always been part of
> the gem-shmem object, but never used much. So most drivers did not track
> the page status correctly.
> 
> Only the v3d and imagination drivers make limited use of _dirty_on_put. In
> the case of imagination, move the flag setting from init to cleanup. This
> ensures writeback of modified pages but does not interfere with the
> internal vmap/vunmap calls. V3d already implements this behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>

The gem-shmem changes are

Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <[email protected]>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 4 ++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_gem.c  | 6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> index 30cd34d3a111..8c07a8f81322 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
> @@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ void drm_gem_shmem_put_pages_locked(struct 
> drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem)
>                                 shmem->pages_mark_dirty_on_put,
>                                 shmem->pages_mark_accessed_on_put);
>               shmem->pages = NULL;
> +             shmem->pages_mark_accessed_on_put = false;
> +             shmem->pages_mark_dirty_on_put = false;
>       }
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gem_shmem_put_pages_locked);
> @@ -397,6 +399,8 @@ int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object 
> *shmem,
>               } else {
>                       iosys_map_set_vaddr(map, shmem->vaddr);
>                       refcount_set(&shmem->vmap_use_count, 1);
> +                     shmem->pages_mark_accessed_on_put = true;
> +                     shmem->pages_mark_dirty_on_put = true;
>               }
>       }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_gem.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_gem.c
> index c07c9a915190..307b02c916d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_gem.c
> @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
>  
>  static void pvr_gem_object_free(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
>  {
> -     drm_gem_shmem_object_free(obj);
> +     struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem_obj = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
> +
> +     shmem_obj->pages_mark_dirty_on_put = true;
> +     drm_gem_shmem_free(shmem_obj);
>  }
>  
>  static struct dma_buf *pvr_gem_export(struct drm_gem_object *obj, int flags)
> @@ -363,7 +366,6 @@ pvr_gem_object_create(struct pvr_device *pvr_dev, size_t 
> size, u64 flags)
>       if (IS_ERR(shmem_obj))
>               return ERR_CAST(shmem_obj);
>  
> -     shmem_obj->pages_mark_dirty_on_put = true;
>       shmem_obj->map_wc = !(flags & PVR_BO_CPU_CACHED);
>       pvr_obj = shmem_gem_to_pvr_gem(shmem_obj);
>       pvr_obj->flags = flags;

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