[PATCH v2 11/17] drm/panthor: Don't pre-allocate VMAs or page tables when preparing a full VM unmap

From: Boris Brezillon

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 06:23:34 EST


In the cleanup path, we unmap the full VA range to make sure things are
clean before the VM is released. I'd rather not fail on memory
allocation in that path, so let's make sure
panthor_vm_pgtable_prepare_unmap_op_ctx() doesn't allocate VMAs or
page tables when the unmap range matches the VM virtual address range.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
index a48466788f4d..acdc0dd04f8b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c
@@ -1466,6 +1466,10 @@ static int panthor_as_prepare_unmap_op_ctx(struct panthor_as_op_ctx *op_ctx,
op_ctx->va.addr = va;
op_ctx->flags = DRM_PANTHOR_VM_BIND_OP_TYPE_UNMAP;

+ /* Unmap on the whole VM range don't need new VMAs or page tables. */
+ if (va == as->base.mm_start && size == as->base.mm_range)
+ return 0;
+
/* Pre-allocate L3 page tables to account for the split-2M-block
* situation on unmap.
*/

--
2.55.0