From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] drm/i915: Handle stolen objects for pread
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 01:03:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKMK7uEHzCcXjwSGqsxYeUnaemLhagV9rHBdYkmnXcRaCa_OLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <275ffc$7lerml@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com>
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:33:43 +0100, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:32:25AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>>
>> Tbh I don't see any reason for handling pwrite/pread support for stolen
>> mem backed objects. I'll leave these two patches here (plus the prep one
>> to differentiate between stolen and dma_bufs) for now until a user pops
>
> The problem is that constitutes a change in ABI, so I was trying to make
> sure stolen buffer objects were first class from day one. The only
> saving grace is that userspace can only access the stolen object for
> fbcon, but it is still available...
Hm, I've forgotten that userspace can get at the fbcon. Does it really
do that? The problem I see here is untested code and no sane way to
test it.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 11:32 Hopefully the last round of stolen work Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 01/16] drm: Introduce drm_mm_create_block() Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 02/16] drm: Introduce an iterator over holes in the drm_mm range manager Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 03/16] drm/i915: Fix detection of base of stolen memory Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 04/16] drm/i915: Avoid clearing preallocated regions from the GTT Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 05/16] drm/i915: Delay allocation of stolen space for FBC Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 06/16] drm/i915: Allow objects to be created with no backing pages, but stolen space Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 07/16] drm/i915: Differentiate between prime and stolen objects Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 08/16] drm/i915: Support readback of stolen objects upon error Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 09/16] drm/i915: Handle stolen objects in pwrite Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 10/16] drm/i915: Handle stolen objects for pread Chris Wilson
2012-11-30 22:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-11-30 23:46 ` Chris Wilson
2012-12-01 0:03 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2012-12-01 0:14 ` Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 11/16] drm/i915: Introduce i915_gem_object_create_stolen() Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 12/16] drm/i915: Allocate fbcon from stolen memory Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 13/16] drm/i915: Allocate ringbuffers " Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 14/16] drm/i915: Allocate overlay registers " Chris Wilson
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 15/16] drm/i915: Use a slab for object allocation Chris Wilson
2012-11-30 22:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-11-15 11:32 ` [PATCH 16/16] drm/i915: Introduce mapping of user pages into video memory (userptr) ioctl Chris Wilson
2012-11-30 23:06 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-11-30 23:57 ` Chris Wilson
2012-12-01 11:25 ` Chris Wilson
2012-12-01 11:35 ` Daniel Vetter
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