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    drm/i915/gt: Keep a no-frills swappable copy of the default context state · be1cb55a
    Chris Wilson authored
    We need to keep the default context state around to instantiate new
    contexts (aka golden rendercontext), and we also keep it pinned while
    the engine is active so that we can quickly reset a hanging context.
    However, the default contexts are large enough to merit keeping in
    swappable memory as opposed to kernel memory, so we store them inside
    shmemfs. Currently, we use the normal GEM objects to create the default
    context image, but we can throw away all but the shmemfs file.
    
    This greatly simplifies the tricky power management code which wants to
    run underneath the normal GT locking, and we definitely do not want to
    use any high level objects that may appear to recurse back into the GT.
    Though perhaps the primary advantage of the complex GEM object is that
    we aggressively cache the mapping, but here we are recreating the
    vm_area everytime time we unpark. At the worst, we add a lightweight
    cache, but first find a microbenchmark that is impacted.
    
    Having started to create some utility functions to make working with
    shmemfs objects easier, we can start putting them to wider use, where
    GEM objects are overkill, such as storing persistent error state.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
    Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
    Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200429172429.6054-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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