Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2018-12-04 15:07:01)
> Chris Wilson <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Currently we allocate a scratch page for each engine, but since we only
> > ever write into it for post-sync operations, it is not exposed to
> > userspace nor do we care for coherency. As we then do not care about its
> > contents, we can use one page for all, reducing our allocations and
> > avoid complications by not assuming per-engine isolation.
> >
> > For later use, it simplifies engine initialisation (by removing the
> > allocation that required struct_mutex!) and means that we can always rely
> > on there being a scratch page.
> >
> > v2: Check that we allocated a large enough scratch for I830 w/a
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>

Plonked it in since it can serve for our need of a backport to fix
v4.18.20. Thanks,
-Chris
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