drm/i915/gtt: Add read only pages to gen8_pte_encode
We can set a bit inside the ppGTT PTE to indicate a page is read-only; writes from the GPU will be discarded. We can use this to protect pages and in particular support read-only userptr mappings (necessary for importing PROT_READ vma). Signed-off-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180712185315.3288-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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