The previous allocation mechanism would get 2 contiguous allocations,
one for the page directories, and one for the page tables. As each page
table is 1 page, and there are 512 of these per page directory, this
goes to 2MB. An unfriendly request at best. Worse still, our HW now
supports 4 page directories, and a 2MB allocation is not allowed.
In order to fix this, this patch attempts to split up each page table
allocation into a single, discrete allocation. There is nothing really
fancy about the patch itself, it just has to manage an extra pointer
indirection, and have a fancier bit of logic to free up the pages.
To accommodate some of the added complexity, two new helpers are
introduced to allocate, and free the page table pages.
NOTE: I really wanted to split the way we do allocations, and the way in
which we identify the page table/page directory being used. I found
splitting this functionality up to be too unwieldy. I apologize in
advance to the reviewer. I'd recommend looking at the result, rather
than the diff.
v2/NOTE2: This patch predated commit:
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Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Tue Dec 31 15:50:31 2013 +0000
drm/i915: Avoid dereference past end of page arr
It fixed the same issue as that patch, but because of the limbo state of
PPGTT, Chris patch was merged instead. The excess churn is a result of
my using my original patch, which has my preferred naming. Primarily
act_* is changed to which_*, but it's mostly the same otherwise. I've
kept the convention Chris used for the pte wrap (I had something
slightly different, and broken - but fixable)
v3: Rename which_p[..]e to drop which_ (Chris)
Remove BUG_ON in inner loop (Chris)
Redo the pde/pdpe wrap logic (Chris)
v4: s/1MB/2MB in commit message (Imre)
Plug leaking gen8_pt_pages in both the error path, as well as general
free case (Imre)
v5: Rename leftover "which_" variables (Imre)
Add the pde = 0 wrap that was missed from v3 (Imre)
Reviewed-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
[danvet: Squash in fixup from Ben.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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