FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/i915: A hotfix for making aliasing PPGTT work for GVT-g" failed to apply to 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.10-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 <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

>From 3e52d71ede206df75b56208e7c7a277ef157bb71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 21:03:33 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: A hotfix for making aliasing PPGTT work for GVT-g

This patch makes PPGTT page table non-shrinkable when using aliasing PPGTT
mode. It's just a temporary solution for making GVT-g work.

Fixes: 2ce5179fe826 ("drm/i915/gtt: Free unused lower-level page tables")
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhiyuan Lv <zhiyuan.lv@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1486559013-25251-2-git-send-email-zhi.a.wang@intel.com
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.10
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
(cherry picked from commit e81ecb5e31db6c2a259d694738cf620d9fa70861)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
index 30d8dbd04f0b..2801a4d56324 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -755,9 +755,10 @@ static bool gen8_ppgtt_clear_pt(struct i915_address_space *vm,
 	GEM_BUG_ON(pte_end > GEN8_PTES);
 
 	bitmap_clear(pt->used_ptes, pte, num_entries);
-
-	if (bitmap_empty(pt->used_ptes, GEN8_PTES))
-		return true;
+	if (USES_FULL_PPGTT(vm->i915)) {
+		if (bitmap_empty(pt->used_ptes, GEN8_PTES))
+			return true;
+	}
 
 	pt_vaddr = kmap_px(pt);