[PATCH v2 1/2] drm/shmem: add support for per object caching attributes

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 11.12.19 um 13:36 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> 
> The udl use-case should be covered already, simply set the flag correctly
> at create/import time? It's per-object ...

The original udl gem code did this. It was additional state for
something that was detectable from the value of import_attach. So udl
now overrides vmap and mmap.


> btw on why udl does this: Imported bo are usually rendered by real hw, and
> reading it uncached/wc is the more defensive setting. It would be kinda
> nice if dma-buf would expose this, but I fear dma-api maintainers would
> murder us if we even just propose that ... so it's a mess right now.

Yeah, in some way it's a variation of the discussion around fbdev memory
access that we had before.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> btw the issue extends to dma access by devices too, e.g. both i915 and
> amdgpu can select the coherency mode at runtime (using e.g. the pcie
> no-snoop transaction mode), and we have similar uncoordinated hacks in
> there too, like in udl.
> -Daniel
> 
>>
>> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>
>> if you prefer to merge v1.
>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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>> Thomas Zimmermann
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Thomas Zimmermann
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