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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/gpusvm: Add timeslicing support to GPU SVM" failed to apply to 6.16-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 6.16-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.16.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 8dc1812b5b3a42311d28eb385eed88e2053ad3cb
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025082118-unhook-drinking-9926@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.16.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 8dc1812b5b3a42311d28eb385eed88e2053ad3cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Brost <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 06:54:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] drm/gpusvm: Add timeslicing support to GPU SVM

Add timeslicing support to GPU SVM which will guarantee the GPU a minimum execution time on piece of physical memory before migration back to CPU. Intended to implement strict migration policies which require memory to be in a certain placement for correct execution.

Required for shared CPU and GPU atomics on certain devices.

Fixes 99624bdff867 ("drm/gpusvm: Add support for GPU Shared Virtual Memory")
Cc [email protected]
Signed-off-by Matthew Brost <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by Himal Prasad Ghimiray <[email protected]>
Link https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c +9 -0
index 41f6616bcf76..4b2f32889f00 100644
@@ -1783,6 +1783,8 @@ int drm_gpusvm_migrate_to_devmem(struct drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,
 		goto err_finalize;
 
 	/* Upon success bind devmem allocation to range and zdd */
+	devmem_allocation->timeslice_expiration = get_jiffies_64() +
+		msecs_to_jiffies(ctx->timeslice_ms);
 	zdd->devmem_allocation = devmem_allocation;	/* Owns ref */
 
 err_finalize:

@@ -2003,6 +2005,13 @@ static int __drm_gpusvm_migrate_to_ram(struct vm_area_struct *vas,
 	void *buf;
 	int i, err = 0;
 
+	if (page) {
+		zdd = page->zone_device_data;
+		if (time_before64(get_jiffies_64(),
+				  zdd->devmem_allocation->timeslice_expiration))
+			return 0;
+	}
+
 	start = ALIGN_DOWN(fault_addr, size);
 	end = ALIGN(fault_addr + 1, size);
include/drm/drm_gpusvm.h +5 -0
index 653d48dbe1c1..eaf704d3d05e 100644
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ struct drm_gpusvm_devmem_ops {
  * @ops: Pointer to the operations structure for GPU SVM device memory
  * @dpagemap: The struct drm_pagemap of the pages this allocation belongs to.
  * @size: Size of device memory allocation
+ * @timeslice_expiration: Timeslice expiration in jiffies
  */
 struct drm_gpusvm_devmem {
 	struct device *dev;

@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ struct drm_gpusvm_devmem {
 	const struct drm_gpusvm_devmem_ops *ops;
 	struct drm_pagemap *dpagemap;
 	size_t size;
+	u64 timeslice_expiration;
 };
 
 /**

@@ -295,6 +297,8 @@ struct drm_gpusvm {
  * @check_pages_threshold: Check CPU pages for present if chunk is less than or
  *                         equal to threshold. If not present, reduce chunk
  *                         size.
+ * @timeslice_ms: The timeslice MS which in minimum time a piece of memory
+ *		  remains with either exclusive GPU or CPU access.
  * @in_notifier: entering from a MMU notifier
  * @read_only: operating on read-only memory
  * @devmem_possible: possible to use device memory

@@ -304,6 +308,7 @@ struct drm_gpusvm {
  */
 struct drm_gpusvm_ctx {
 	unsigned long check_pages_threshold;
+	unsigned long timeslice_ms;
 	unsigned int in_notifier :1;
 	unsigned int read_only :1;
 	unsigned int devmem_possible :1;