[PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: rename GART to SYSVM

Christian König deathsimple at vodafone.de
Tue Jul 4 07:43:48 UTC 2017


> Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM.
That is essentially what I've did.

In recent discussion we a couple of times the problem that we need to 
distinguish between the system VM and the GART/GTT domain from TTM.

See starting with R6xx I think we used the system VM to implement the 
old GART functionality from AGP days.

The name stayed the same over the years, but we ran into the problem 
that we wanted to reduce the size of the system VM to save VRAM while 
still having a large GTT domain in TTM to map all system memory at the 
same time.

So that the TTM parts stay the same is intentional.

Regards,
Christian.

Am 04.07.2017 um 05:13 schrieb Zhou, David(ChunMing):
> Distinguishing system vm and general vm is a good idea, but I'm not sure about renaming GTT to sysvm part, especially TTM TT stays there. Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM.
>
> Regards,
> David Zhou
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Christian K?nig
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 5:45 PM
> To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: rename GART to SYSVM
>
> From: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>
> Just mass rename all names related to the hardware GART/GTT functions to SYSVM.
>
> The name of symbols related to the TTM TT domain stay the same.
>
> This should improve the distinction between the two.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
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