On 11/5/18 3:13 AM, Kuo-Hsin Yang wrote: > -These are currently used in two places in the kernel: > +These are currently used in three places in the kernel: > > (1) By ramfs to mark the address spaces of its inodes when they are created, > and this mark remains for the life of the inode. > @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ These are currently used in two places in the kernel: > swapped out; the application must touch the pages manually if it wants > to > ensure they're in memory. > > + (3) By the i915 driver to mark pinned address space until it's unpinned.
At a minimum, I think we owe some documentation here of how to tell approximately how much memory i915 is consuming with this mechanism. The debugfs stuff sounds like a halfway reasonable way to approximate it, although it's imperfect. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
