[Bug 90537] radeonsi bo/va conflict on RADEON_GEM_VA (rscreen->ws->buffer_from_handle returns NULL)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90537

--- Comment #24 from Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> ---
(In reply to Christian König from comment #23)
> > How would it break backwards compatibility?
> 
> You would need to allow multiple mappings into the same address space per BO.
> 
> Which is exactly what I've did for amdgpu, but IIRC that would break the
> userspace interface because you won't return the mapped address any more
> when you try to map it multiple times....

What would that break? It could result in the same BO having several
representations in userspace, but (why) is that a problem?


> > I'm not sure how not tracking the VA ranges per GEM handle could ever work
> > as expected with several GEM handles referencing the same BO.
> 
> Actually it can indeed never work correctly. What we just do all the time is
> trying to avoid the case that several GEM handles reference the same BO very
> hard.

I'm afraid we can't always avoid that though, e.g. when sharing BOs between
glamor and the Xorg driver.

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