[Linaro-mm-sig] Re: [PATCH 1/4] drm/panthor: Add freed_sz parameter to reclaim_priv_bos

On Wednesday, 6 May 2026 17:06:57 Central European Summer Time Steven Price wrote:

On 06/05/2026 11:45, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:

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panthor_mmu_reclaim_priv_bos returns the number of freed pages. However, how many bytes of freed memory this translates to can't generally be deduced from the number of pages, as the page size is a per-VM property.

It may be useful to know the exact number of bytes that have been freed

The "useful" aspect seems to just be a drm_dbg() message from what I can see with this series?

Correct.

Am I missing something or is it not actually that useful?

I wanted to know how much memory I'm actually reclaiming without making any assumptions about page sizes, and figured the change is innocent enough. If it's deemed too pointless, then I'll just drop the size in bytes from the debug message.

Kind regards, Nicolas Frattaroli

Thanks, Steve

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for observability and debugging purposes. To that end, add a new parameter "freed_sz", which is a pointer to a size_t where this information will be stored. It may be NULL, in which case the information isn't stored at all.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com

drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c | 3 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 12 ++++++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c index 13295d7a593d..80e82238f3c5 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c @@ -1511,7 +1511,8 @@ panthor_gem_shrinker_scan(struct shrinker *shrinker, struct shrink_control *sc) goto out; freed += panthor_mmu_reclaim_priv_bos(ptdev, sc->nr_to_scan - freed,

• 			      &remaining, panthor_gem_try_evict);
  

• 			      &remaining, NULL,
  

• 			      panthor_gem_try_evict);
  

  if (freed >= sc->nr_to_scan) goto out;

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c index a7ee14986849..b81388b35a58 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c @@ -3127,13 +3127,18 @@ int panthor_vm_prepare_mapped_bos_resvs(struct drm_exec *exec, struct panthor_vm unsigned long panthor_mmu_reclaim_priv_bos(struct panthor_device *ptdev, unsigned int nr_to_scan, unsigned long *remaining,

• 	     size_t *freed_sz,
       bool (*shrink)(struct drm_gem_object *,
  		    struct ww_acquire_ctx *))
  

{

• unsigned long newly_freed; unsigned long freed = 0; LIST_HEAD(remaining_vms); LIST_HEAD(vms);

• if (freed_sz)

• *freed_sz = 0;
  

• mutex_lock(&ptdev->reclaim.lock); list_splice_init(&ptdev->reclaim.vms, &vms);

@@ -3152,8 +3157,11 @@ panthor_mmu_reclaim_priv_bos(struct panthor_device *ptdev, mutex_unlock(&ptdev->reclaim.lock);

• freed += drm_gem_lru_scan(&vm->reclaim.lru, nr_to_scan - freed,
  

• 			  remaining, shrink, NULL);
  

• newly_freed = drm_gem_lru_scan(&vm->reclaim.lru, nr_to_scan - freed,
  

• 			       remaining, shrink, NULL);
  

• if (freed_sz)
  

• 	*freed_sz += panthor_vm_page_size(vm) * newly_freed;
  

• freed += newly_freed;
  

mutex_lock(&ptdev->reclaim.lock); diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h index 3522fbbce369..12b18b5f90e1 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.h @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ int panthor_vm_evict_bo_mappings_locked(struct panthor_gem_object *bo); unsigned long panthor_mmu_reclaim_priv_bos(struct panthor_device *ptdev, unsigned int nr_to_scan, unsigned long *remaining,

• 	     size_t *freed_sz,
       bool (*shrink)(struct drm_gem_object *,
  		    struct ww_acquire_ctx *));
  

int panthor_vm_prepare_mapped_bos_resvs(struct drm_exec *exec,