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drm/i915: Prefer to report ENOMEM rather than incur the oom for gfx allocations
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:05:21 +0000 (11:05 +0000)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:26:46 +0000 (19:26 +0000)
commit24f8e00a8a2eae92491f8668939dbfdc123d6e75
tree569e718282ede95838583f3e69f5eb070c9d4de5
parent396a1200d8202f7cd154e26dcc47438e28ef6c70
drm/i915: Prefer to report ENOMEM rather than incur the oom for gfx allocations

Since gfx allocations tend to be large, unmovable and disposable, report
the allocation failure back to userspace as an ENOMEM rather than incur
the oomkiller. We have already tried to make room by purging our own
cached gfx objects, and the oomkiller doesn't attribute ownership of gfx
objects so will likely pick the wrong candidate. Instead, let userspace
see the ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170322110521.29930-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c