[PATCH 2/2] drm/panthor: Implement evicted status for GEM objects

From: Nicolas Frattaroli

Date: Mon Apr 20 2026 - 12:39:45 EST


For fdinfo to be able to fill its evicted counter with data, panthor
needs to keep track of whether a GEM object has ever been reclaimed.
Just checking whether the pages are resident isn't enough, as newly
allocated objects also won't be resident.

Do this with a new atomic_t member on panthor_gem_object. It's increased
when an object gets evicted by the shrinker. While it's allowed to wrap
around to below zero and assume a value less than a previous observed
value, the reclaim counter will never return to 0 for any particular
object once it's been reclaimed at least once.

Use this new member to then set the appropriate DRM_GEM_OBJECT_EVICTED
status flag for fdinfo, and use it in the gems debugfs. It's possible to
distinguish evicted non-resident pages from newly allocated non-resident
pages by checking whether reclaimed_count is != 0.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c | 10 ++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c
index 69cef05b6ef7..4b761b39565d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c
@@ -687,6 +687,10 @@ static void panthor_gem_evict_locked(struct panthor_gem_object *bo)
if (drm_WARN_ON_ONCE(bo->base.dev, !bo->backing.pages))
return;

+ /* Don't ever wrap around as far as 0, jump from INT_MIN to 1 */
+ if (!atomic_inc_unless_negative(&bo->reclaimed_count))
+ atomic_set(&bo->reclaimed_count, 1);
+
panthor_gem_dev_map_cleanup_locked(bo);
panthor_gem_backing_cleanup_locked(bo);
panthor_gem_update_reclaim_state_locked(bo, NULL);
@@ -788,6 +792,8 @@ static enum drm_gem_object_status panthor_gem_status(struct drm_gem_object *obj)

if (drm_gem_is_imported(&bo->base) || bo->backing.pages)
res |= DRM_GEM_OBJECT_RESIDENT;
+ else if (atomic_read(&bo->reclaimed_count))
+ res |= DRM_GEM_OBJECT_EVICTED;

return res;
}
@@ -1595,6 +1601,7 @@ static void panthor_gem_debugfs_print_flag_names(struct seq_file *m)
static const char * const gem_state_flags_names[] = {
[PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_IMPORTED_BIT] = "imported",
[PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EXPORTED_BIT] = "exported",
+ [PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EVICTED_BIT] = "evicted",
};

static const char * const gem_usage_flags_names[] = {
@@ -1648,6 +1655,9 @@ static void panthor_gem_debugfs_bo_print(struct panthor_gem_object *bo,

if (drm_gem_is_imported(&bo->base))
gem_state_flags |= PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_IMPORTED;
+ else if (!resident_size && atomic_read(&bo->reclaimed_count))
+ gem_state_flags |= PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EVICTED;
+
if (bo->base.dma_buf)
gem_state_flags |= PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EXPORTED;

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h
index ae0491d0b121..1ab573f03330 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.h
@@ -19,12 +19,16 @@ struct panthor_vm;
enum panthor_debugfs_gem_state_flags {
PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_IMPORTED_BIT = 0,
PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EXPORTED_BIT = 1,
+ PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EVICTED_BIT = 2,

/** @PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_IMPORTED: GEM BO is PRIME imported. */
PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_IMPORTED = BIT(PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_IMPORTED_BIT),

/** @PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EXPORTED: GEM BO is PRIME exported. */
PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EXPORTED = BIT(PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EXPORTED_BIT),
+
+ /** @PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EVICTED: GEM BO is evicted to swap. */
+ PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_FLAG_EVICTED = BIT(PANTHOR_DEBUGFS_GEM_STATE_EVICTED_BIT),
};

enum panthor_debugfs_gem_usage_flags {
@@ -172,6 +176,13 @@ struct panthor_gem_object {
/** @reclaim_state: Cached reclaim state */
enum panthor_gem_reclaim_state reclaim_state;

+ /**
+ * @reclaimed_count: How many times object has been evicted to swap.
+ * Never returns to 0 once incremented even on wrap-around, but may
+ * become < 0 and < the previous value if wrap-around occurs.
+ */
+ atomic_t reclaimed_count;
+
/**
* @exclusive_vm_root_gem: Root GEM of the exclusive VM this GEM object
* is attached to.

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