Quoting Chris Wilson (2018-06-10 22:43:19)
> As we were only supporting aliasing_ppgtt on gen7 for some time, we
> saved a few checks by preallocating the page directories on creation.
> However, since we need 2MiB of page directories for each ppgtt, to
> support arbitrary numbers of user contexts, we need to be more prudent
> in our allocations, and defer the page allocation until it is used. We
> don't recover unused pages yet as we found that doing so on the fly
> (i.e. altering TLB entries) would confuse the GPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>

Regards, Joonas
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