[PATCH v2 1/8] drm: Add dummy page per device or GEM object

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:35:01 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 02:03:01AM -0400, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> > Will be used to reroute CPU mapped BO's page faults once
> > device is removed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky at amd.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c  |  8 ++++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >  include/drm/drm_file.h      |  2 ++
> >  include/drm/drm_gem.h       |  2 ++
> >  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

...

> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gem.h b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> > index 0b37506..47460d1 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> > @@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ struct drm_gem_object {
> >  	 *
> >  	 */
> >  	const struct drm_gem_object_funcs *funcs;
> > +
> > +	struct page *dummy_page;
> >  };  
> 
> I think amdgpu doesn't care, but everyone else still might care somewhat
> about flink. That also shares buffers, so also needs to allocate the
> per-bo dummy page.

Do you really care about making flink not explode on device
hot-unplug? Why not just leave flink users die in a fire?
It's not a regression.


Thanks,
pq
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