[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 57/66] drm/i915: Disallow pin with full ppgtt

Ben Widawsky ben at bwidawsk.net
Mon Jul 1 20:27:54 CEST 2013


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 01:36:39PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > I respectfully disagree. The semantics of the pin ioctl remain useful
> > even with the ggtt/ppgtt split, and I think barring its use forever more
> > is unwise. Not that pinning is a good solution, just in some cases it
> > may be the only solution. (It has proven useful in the past, it is
> > likely to do so again.) All that we need to do is note that the offset
> > returned by pin is ggtt and the offsets used by execbuffer are ppgtt. So
> > keep pin-ioctl and fix the test not to assume that pin.offset is
> > meaningful with execbuffer after HAS_FULL_PPGTT.
> 
> I was eyeing for the most minimal fix, but this is ok with me, too.
> -Daniel
>
So, just fix the test?

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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