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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@amd.com>
Cc: "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@amd.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] drm/ttm: drop VM_DONTDUMP
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:40:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190917114041.6oaukfnsai5rmf54@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c29222f7-2737-2416-62c9-eafd4d608ded@amd.com>

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:22:35AM +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> Am 17.09.19 um 11:24 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> > Not obvious why this is needed.  According to Deniel Vetter this is most
> > likely a historic artefact dating back to the days where drm drivers
> > exposed hardware registers as mmap'able gem objects, to avoid dumping
> > touching those registers.
> 
> Clearly a NAK.
> 
> We still have that and really don't want to try dumping any CPU 
> inaccessible VRAM content even if it is mapped into the address space 
> somewhere.

Thanks for the clarification, I'll drop the patch.

cheers,
  Gerd


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-17 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190917092404.9982-1-kraxel@redhat.com>
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] drm: add mmap() to drm_gem_object_funcs Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] drm/shmem: switch shmem helper to &drm_gem_object_funcs.mmap Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-23 13:29   ` Steven Price
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] drm/shmem: drop VM_DONTDUMP Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-23 13:32   ` Steven Price
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] drm/shmem: drop VM_IO Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-23 13:32   ` Steven Price
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] drm/shmem: drop DEFINE_DRM_GEM_SHMEM_FOPS Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] drm/ttm: factor out ttm_bo_mmap_vma_setup Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] drm/ttm: drop VM_DONTDUMP Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17 11:22   ` Koenig, Christian
2019-09-17 11:40     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2019-09-17  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] drm/ttm: add drm_gem_ttm_mmap() Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] drm/vram: switch vram helper to &drm_gem_object_funcs.mmap() Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] drm/vram: drop verify_access Gerd Hoffmann
2019-09-17  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] drm/vram: drop DRM_VRAM_MM_FILE_OPERATIONS Gerd Hoffmann

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