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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2014-08-06 23:36:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2014-08-06 23:36:12 -0700 |
| commit | 5e2aa2ed08e2e280121dc7cf5609c87d464f12ef (patch) | |
| tree | ca7d7b1480285e3b617fecc5b41f0ce150a82c32 /drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | |
| parent | f62d14a8072b9756db36ba394e2b267470a40240 (diff) | |
| parent | fc8104bc5a3f6f49d79f45f2706f79f77a9fb2ae (diff) | |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare first round of input updates for 3.17.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c index 9909bef59800..f7d71190aad5 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c @@ -474,21 +474,10 @@ struct page **drm_gem_get_pages(struct drm_gem_object *obj, gfp_t gfpmask) goto fail; pages[i] = p; - /* There is a hypothetical issue w/ drivers that require - * buffer memory in the low 4GB.. if the pages are un- - * pinned, and swapped out, they can end up swapped back - * in above 4GB. If pages are already in memory, then - * shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp will ignore the gfpmask, - * even if the already in-memory page disobeys the mask. - * - * It is only a theoretical issue today, because none of - * the devices with this limitation can be populated with - * enough memory to trigger the issue. But this BUG_ON() - * is here as a reminder in case the problem with - * shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() isn't solved by the time - * it does become a real issue. - * - * See this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/11/238 + /* Make sure shmem keeps __GFP_DMA32 allocated pages in the + * correct region during swapin. Note that this requires + * __GFP_DMA32 to be set in mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) + * so shmem can relocate pages during swapin if required. */ BUG_ON((gfpmask & __GFP_DMA32) && (page_to_pfn(p) >= 0x00100000UL)); |
