From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: boris.brezillon@collabora.com, loic.molinari@collabora.com,
willy@infradead.org, frank.binns@imgtec.com,
matt.coster@imgtec.com, maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com,
mripard@kernel.org, airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/6] drm/gem-shmem: Track folio accessed/dirty status in mmap
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:27:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260209133241.238813-6-tzimmermann@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260209133241.238813-1-tzimmermann@suse.de>
Invoke folio_mark_accessed() in mmap page faults to add the folio to
the memory manager's LRU list. Userspace invokes mmap to get the memory
for software rendering. Compositors do the same when creating the final
on-screen image, so keeping the pages in LRU makes sense. Avoids paging
out graphics buffers when under memory pressure.
In pfn_mkwrite, further invoke the folio_mark_dirty() to add the folio
for writeback should the underlying file be paged out from system memory.
This rarely happens in practice, yet it would corrupt the buffer content.
This has little effect on a system's hardware-accelerated rendering, which
only mmaps for an initial setup of textures, meshes, shaders, etc.
v3:
- rewrite for VM_PFNMAP
v2:
- adapt to changes in drm_gem_shmem_try_mmap_pmd()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
index c3a054899ba3..0c86ad40a049 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
@@ -598,6 +598,9 @@ static vm_fault_t drm_gem_shmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (ret != VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)
ret = vmf_insert_pfn(vma, vmf->address, pfn);
+ if (likely(!(ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)))
+ folio_mark_accessed(folio);
+
out:
dma_resv_unlock(obj->resv);
@@ -638,10 +641,27 @@ static void drm_gem_shmem_vm_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
drm_gem_vm_close(vma);
}
+static vm_fault_t drm_gem_shmem_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+ struct drm_gem_object *obj = vma->vm_private_data;
+ struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem = to_drm_gem_shmem_obj(obj);
+ pgoff_t page_offset = vmf->pgoff - vma->vm_pgoff; /* page offset within VMA */
+ struct page *page = shmem->pages[page_offset];
+ struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
+
+ file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
+
+ folio_mark_dirty(folio);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
const struct vm_operations_struct drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops = {
.fault = drm_gem_shmem_fault,
.open = drm_gem_shmem_vm_open,
.close = drm_gem_shmem_vm_close,
+ .pfn_mkwrite = drm_gem_shmem_pfn_mkwrite,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-09 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-09 13:27 [PATCH v3 0/6] drm/gem-shmem: Track page accessed/dirty status Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] drm/gem-shmem: Use obj directly where appropriate in fault handler Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-09 14:10 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] drm/gem-shmem: Test for existence of page in mmap " Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-09 14:10 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] drm/gem-shmem: Return vm_fault_t from drm_gem_shmem_try_map_pmd() Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] drm/gem-shmem: Refactor drm_gem_shmem_try_map_pmd() Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-09 14:25 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-09 13:27 ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
2026-02-09 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] drm/gem-shmem: Track folio accessed/dirty status in mmap Boris Brezillon
2026-02-09 14:46 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-09 15:01 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] drm/gem-shmem: Track folio accessed/dirty status in vmap Thomas Zimmermann
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-11 7:04 ` Claude review: drm/gem-shmem: Track page accessed/dirty status Claude Code Review Bot
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