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    drm/ttm: rework ttm_tt page limit v4 · d4bd7776
    Christian König authored
    TTM implements a rather extensive accounting of allocated memory.
    
    There are two reasons for this:
    1. It tries to block userspace allocating a huge number of very small
       BOs without accounting for the kmalloced memory.
    
    2. Make sure we don't over allocate and run into an OOM situation
       during swapout while trying to handle the memory shortage.
    
    This is only partially a good idea. First of all it is perfectly
    valid for an application to use all of system memory, limiting it to
    50% is not really acceptable.
    
    What we need to take care of is that the application is held
    accountable for the memory it allocated. This is what control
    mechanisms like memcg and the normal Linux page accounting already do.
    
    Making sure that we don't run into an OOM situation while trying to
    cope with a memory shortage is still a good idea, but this is also
    not very well implemented since it means another opportunity of
    recursion from the driver back into TTM.
    
    So start to rework all of this by implementing a shrinker callback which
    allows for TT object to be swapped out if necessary.
    
    v2: Switch from limit to shrinker callback.
    v3: fix gfp mask handling, use atomic for swapable_pages, add debugfs
    v4: drop the extra gfp_mask checks
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210208133226.36955-1-christian.koenig@amd.com
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