RAM is not, in fact, cheap. Especially on embedded systems with a low amount of memory, but known and well-defined userspace, more explicit resource management can lead to better utilisation patterns. As an example, a resource manager process on a purpose-built device may wish to launch, and then explicitly swap out, memory of processes that are kept "warm", to improve perceived startup latency of individual full-screen applications without making the kernel figure out the usage pattern from observation alone in order to swap out the right pages.
To allow for this explicit control in the context of panthor's GPU memory, add two new sysfs knobs. The first, mem_reclaim, runs an explicit priv BO reclaim cycle on the TGID written to it.
The second, mem_claim, does the opposite: it swaps BOs back into active memory.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com --- Nicolas Frattaroli (4): drm/panthor: Add freed_sz parameter to reclaim_priv_bos MAINTAINERS: Add sysfs ABI docs to list of panthor files drm/panthor: Add explicit memory reclaim sysfs knob drm/panthor: Add explicit memory claim sysfs knob
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-panthor-mem | 34 ++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 70 +++++++++++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h | 4 + 7 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 2c4b906cd135bbb44855287d0d0eff0ee0b47afe change-id: 20260506-panthor-explicit-reclaim-3dffed028d8c
Best regards, -- Nicolas Frattaroli nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com