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Commit e3793468 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Use the async worker to avoid reclaim tainting the ggtt->mutex

On Braswell and Broxton (also known as Valleyview and Apollolake), we
need to serialise updates of the GGTT using the big stop_machine()
hammer. This has the side effect of appearing to lockdep as a possible
reclaim (since it uses the cpuhp mutex and that is tainted by per-cpu
allocations). However, we want to use vm->mutex (including ggtt->mutex)
from within the shrinker and so must avoid such possible taints. For this
purpose, we introduced the asynchronous vma binding and we can apply it
to the PIN_GLOBAL so long as take care to add the necessary waits for
the worker afterwards.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/211


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200130181710.2030251-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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