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From: "Loïc Molinari" <loic.molinari@collabora.com>
To: "Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	kernel@collabora.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 10/10] Documentation/gpu/drm-mm: Add THP paragraph to GEM mapping section
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 11:30:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251004093054.21388-11-loic.molinari@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251004093054.21388-1-loic.molinari@collabora.com>

Add a paragraph to the GEM objects mapping section explaining how
transparent huge pages are handled by GEM.

Signed-off-by: Loïc Molinari <loic.molinari@collabora.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
index d55751cad67c..0ce6e27f8463 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ made up of several fields, the more interesting ones being:
 		void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 		void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 		vm_fault_t (*fault)(struct vm_fault *vmf);
+		vm_fault_t (*huge_fault)(struct vm_fault *vmf,
+					 unsigned int order);
 	};
 
 
@@ -290,7 +292,7 @@ The open and close operations must update the GEM object reference
 count. Drivers can use the drm_gem_vm_open() and drm_gem_vm_close() helper
 functions directly as open and close handlers.
 
-The fault operation handler is responsible for mapping individual pages
+The fault operation handlers are responsible for mapping individual pages
 to userspace when a page fault occurs. Depending on the memory
 allocation scheme, drivers can allocate pages at fault time, or can
 decide to allocate memory for the GEM object at the time the object is
@@ -299,6 +301,19 @@ created.
 Drivers that want to map the GEM object upfront instead of handling page
 faults can implement their own mmap file operation handler.
 
+In order to reduce page table overhead, if the internal shmem mountpoint
+"shm_mnt" is configured to use transparent huge pages (for builds with
+CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled) and if the shmem backing store
+manages to allocate huge pages, faulty addresses within huge pages will
+be mapped into the tables using the huge page fault handler. In such
+cases, mmap() user address alignment for GEM objects is handled by
+providing a custom get_unmapped_area properly forwarding to the shmem
+backing store. For most drivers, which don't create a huge mountpoint by
+default or through a module parameter, transparent huge pages can be
+enabled by either setting the "transparent_hugepage_shmem" kernel
+parameter or the "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled"
+sysfs knob.
+
 For platforms without MMU the GEM core provides a helper method
 drm_gem_dma_get_unmapped_area(). The mmap() routines will call this to get a
 proposed address for the mapping.
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-10-04  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-04  9:30 [PATCH v3 00/10] drm: Reduce page tables overhead with THP Loïc Molinari
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] drm/shmem-helper: Add huge page fault handler Loïc Molinari
2025-10-04 22:53   ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-10-06  6:52   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-06 16:01   ` Andi Shyti
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] drm/gem: Introduce drm_gem_get_unmapped_area() fop Loïc Molinari
2025-10-10  7:48   ` kernel test robot
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] drm/gem: Add huge tmpfs mount point helper Loïc Molinari
2025-10-04 20:34   ` Al Viro
2025-10-06  6:58   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-06  7:02   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] drm/i915: Use " Loïc Molinari
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] drm/v3d: " Loïc Molinari
2025-10-06  7:07   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] drm/gem: Get rid of *_with_mnt helpers Loïc Molinari
2025-10-06  7:17   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] drm/panthor: Introduce huge tmpfs mount point option Loïc Molinari
2025-10-06  7:28   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-15 13:09     ` Loïc Molinari
2025-10-15 13:12       ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-06  7:34   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] drm/panthor: Improve IOMMU map/unmap debugging logs Loïc Molinari
2025-10-04  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] drm/panfrost: Introduce huge tmpfs mount point option Loïc Molinari
2025-10-06  7:33   ` Boris Brezillon
2025-10-04  9:30 ` Loïc Molinari [this message]
2025-10-04 22:40   ` [PATCH v3 10/10] Documentation/gpu/drm-mm: Add THP paragraph to GEM mapping section Bagas Sanjaya

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