On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 19:34 +0100, Matthew Auld wrote:
> Not a fully blown gemfs, just our very own tmpfs kernel mount. Doing so
> moves us away from the shmemfs shm_mnt, and gives us the much needed
> flexibility to do things like set our own mount options, namely huge=
> which should allow us to enable the use of transparent-huge-pages for
> our shmem backed objects.
>
> v2: various improvements suggested by Joonas
>
> v3: move gemfs instance to i915.mm and simplify now that we have
> file_setup_with_mnt
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.a...@intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kir...@shutemov.name>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
<SNIP>
> @@ -4288,6 +4289,25 @@ static const struct drm_i915_gem_object_ops
> i915_gem_object_ops = {
> .pwrite = i915_gem_object_pwrite_gtt,
> };
>
> +static int i915_gem_object_create_shmem(struct drm_device *dev,
> + struct drm_gem_object *obj,
> + size_t size)
> +{
> + struct drm_i915_private *i915 = to_i915(dev);
> + struct file *filp;
> +
> + drm_gem_private_object_init(dev, obj, size);
> +
> + filp = shmem_file_setup_with_mnt(i915->mm.gemfs, "i915", size,
> + VM_NORESERVE);
Can you double-check that /proc/meminfo is unaffected by this change?
If we stop appearing under "Shemem:" we maybe need to maybe highlight
this somewhere (at least in commit message).
<SNIP>
> +int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> +{
> + struct file_system_type *type;
> + struct vfsmount *gemfs;
> +
> + type = get_fs_type("tmpfs");
> + if (!type)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + gemfs = kern_mount(type);
> + if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
> + return PTR_ERR(gemfs);
By occasionally checking that "i915->mm.gemfs" might be NULL, could we
continue without our own gemfs mount and just lose the additional
features? Or is it not worth the hassle?
Anyway, this is:
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
Regards, Joonas
--
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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