linux-stable.git/drivers/gpu/tests/gpu_buddy_test.c, branch linux-6.18.y Linux kernel stable tree gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two) 2026-08-03T09:22:09+00:00 Joel Fernandes joelagnelf@nvidia.com 2026-07-23T14:19:29+00:00 65677f7a20c48cf9ed02c56db389cc327d2b61b2 [ Upstream commit ba110db8e1bc206c13fd7d985e79b033f53bfdea ] Move the DRM buddy allocator one level up so that it can be used by GPU drivers (example, nova-core) that have usecases other than DRM (such as VFIO vGPU support). Modify the API, structures and Kconfigs to use "gpu_buddy" terminology. Adapt the drivers and tests to use the new API. The commit cannot be split due to bisectability, however no functional change is intended. Verified by running K-UNIT tests and build tested various configurations. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> [airlied: I've split this into two so git can find copies easier. I've also just nuked drm_random library, that stuff needs to be done elsewhere and only the buddy tests seem to be using it]. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Stable-dep-of: 56bc6384314f ("gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit ba110db8e1bc206c13fd7d985e79b033f53bfdea ]

Move the DRM buddy allocator one level up so that it can be used by GPU
drivers (example, nova-core) that have usecases other than DRM (such as
VFIO vGPU support). Modify the API, structures and Kconfigs to use
"gpu_buddy" terminology. Adapt the drivers and tests to use the new API.

The commit cannot be split due to bisectability, however no functional
change is intended. Verified by running K-UNIT tests and build tested
various configurations.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
[airlied: I've split this into two so git can find copies easier.
I've also just nuked drm_random library, that stuff needs to be done
elsewhere and only the buddy tests seem to be using it].
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Stable-dep-of: 56bc6384314f ("gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>