[PATCH 1/5] drm/vmwgfx: unbind in vmw_ttm_unpopulate

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 10:11:04 UTC 2021



Am 26.08.21 um 10:49 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:15:20PM +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
>> On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 13:05 +0200, Christian König wrote:
>>> Adding Thomas on CC as well.
>>>
>>> Just a gentle ping. I think the patch set makes sense now.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>> Am 28.07.21 um 15:05 schrieb Christian König:
>>>> Doing this in vmw_ttm_destroy() is to late.
>>>>
>>>> It turned out that this is not a good idea at all because it leaves
>>>> pointers
>>>> to freed up system memory pages in the GART tables of the drivers.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ttm_buffer.c | 9 +++------
>>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>>
>> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
> For next time around I think recording a bit more of the discussions and
> git history in these would be really good. At least I'd like to get more
> people ramped up on ttm work, and for that to work out things need to be a
> bit more accessible ... The above commit message is pretty much useless if
> you ever hit it in a git blame, if you haven't been involved in any of
> these discussions.

I've pushed it with a link tag back to the patches in patchwork, but I 
should probably include a link tag to the older versions as well for 
completeness.

Christian.

> -Daniel



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