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mm: shmem: fix the shmem large folio allocation for the i915 driver
authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:53:43 +0000 (09:53 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 2 Aug 2025 19:05:51 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
commit8d58d65621118fdca3ed6a0b3d658ba7e0e5153c
treebf478d492d36ed7049e07fca82f469ebd4c9e2f8
parent5c241ed8d031693dadf33dd98ed2e7cc363e9b66
mm: shmem: fix the shmem large folio allocation for the i915 driver

After commit acd7ccb284b8 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for
tmpfs"), we extend the 'huge=' option to allow any sized large folios for
tmpfs, which means tmpfs will allow getting a highest order hint based on
the size of write() and fallocate() paths, and then will try each
allowable large order.

However, when the i915 driver allocates shmem memory, it doesn't provide
hint information about the size of the large folio to be allocated,
resulting in the inability to allocate PMD-sized shmem, which in turn
affects GPU performance.

Patryk added:

: In my tests, the performance drop ranges from a few percent up to 13%
: in Unigine Superposition under heavy memory usage on the CPU Core Ultra
: 155H with the Xe 128 EU GPU.  Other users have reported performance
: impact up to 30% on certain workloads.  Please find more in the
: regressions reports:
: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14645
: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/13845
:
: I believe the change should be backported to all active kernel branches
: after version 6.12.

To fix this issue, we can use the inode's size as a write size hint in
shmem_read_folio_gfp() to help allocate PMD-sized large folios.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7e64e99a3a87a8144cc6b2f1dddf7a89c12ce44.1753926601.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: acd7ccb284b8 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for tmpfs")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Patryk Kowalczyk <patryk@kowalczyk.ws>
Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Patryk Kowalczyk <patryk@kowalczyk.ws>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c