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    drm/i915: optionally disable shrinker lock stealing · 677feac2
    Daniel Vetter authored
    commit 5774506f
    Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Date:   Wed Nov 21 13:04:04 2012 +0000
    
        drm/i915: Borrow our struct_mutex for the direct reclaim
    
    added a nice trick to steal the struct_mutex lock in the shrinker if
    it's the current task holding it. But this also caused the requirement
    that every place which allocates memory needs to be careful about the
    gem state of objects, since the shrinker could have pulled the rug out
    from under it. We've usually solved this by carefully preallocating
    things or ensure that buffers are pinned already.
    
    But the shrinker also reaps mmap offset, so allocating those needs to
    be careful, too. Now that code has been factored out into some common
    helpers, so either we have fragile code depending upon the common
    helper not doing something we don't want it to do. Or we need to
    reimplement the mmap offset creation and so also leak implementation
    details into our code.
    
    Since this all results in leaky abstraction, cop out by disabling the
    lock borrowing trick while calling down into the helpers. That way our
    craziness is nicely confined to files in drm/i915.
    
    v2: Split out the change to create_mmap_offset as request by Chris Wilson.
    
    Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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