[PATCH 1/3] drm/radeon: GPU virtual memory support v22

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:11 AM,  <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jerome Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
>
> Virtual address space are per drm client (opener of /dev/drm).
> Client are in charge of virtual address space, they need to
> map bo into it by calling DRM_RADEON_GEM_VA ioctl.
>
> First 16M of virtual address space is reserved by the kernel.
>
> Once using 2 level page table we should be able to have a small
> vram memory footprint for each pt (there would be one pt for all
> gart, one for all vram and then one first level for each virtual
> address space).
>
> Plan include using the sub allocator for a common vm page table
> area and using memcpy to copy vm page table in & out. Or use
> a gart object and copy things in & out using dma.

Pushed all 3.

What happens if someone calls the VA ioctl on a non-VM system btw?

If thats an issue, please provide a follow up patch.

Dave.