[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm/i915: vfuncs for gtt_clear_range/insert_entries

[Damien Lespiau]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:44:55PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> We have a few too many differences here, so finally take the prepared
> abstraction and run with it. A few smaller changes are required to get
> things into shape:
> 
> - move i915_cache_level up since we need it in the gt funcs
> - split up i915_ggtt_clear_range and move the two functions down to
>   where the relevant insert_entries functions are
> - adjustments to a few function parameter lists
> 
> Now we have 2 functions which deal with the gen6+ global gtt
> (gen6_ggtt_ prefix) and 2 functions which deal with the legacy gtt
> code in the intel-gtt.c fake agp driver (i915_ggtt_ prefix).
> 
> Init is still a bit a mess, but honestly I don't care about that.
> 
> One thing I've thought about while deciding on the exact interfaces is
> a flag parameter for ->clear_range: We could use that to decide
> between writing invalid pte entries or scratch pte entries. In case we
> ever get around to fixing all our bugs which currently prevent us from
> filling the gtt with empty ptes for the truly unused ranges ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> [bwidawsk: Moved functions to the gtt struct]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>

Reviewed-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau at intel.com>

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Damien