drm/vram: Support top-down placement flag
Pinning lots of small buffer objects, such as cursors or sprites, to video
memory can lead to fragmentation, which is a problem for devices with only
a small amount of memory. As a result, framebuffer images might not get
pinned, even though there's enough space available overall.
The flag DRM_GEM_VRAM_PL_FLAG_TOPDOWN marks buffer objects to be pinned at
the high end of video memory. This leaves contiguous space available at
the memory's low end.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190923172753.26593-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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