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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)
commit0ae146842a72da1eefe5a0851c9b70edc2efa9d5
tree569e718282ede95838583f3e69f5eb070c9d4de5
parentafc49a1f1ced29ba677454dddddede03d0837075
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