[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 23/66] drm/i915: Move stolen stuff to i915_gtt

[Ben Widawsky]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:30:24PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > It doesn't apply to generic VMA, so it belongs with the gtt.
> > 
> > for file in `ls drivers/gpu/drm/i915/*.c` ; do
> > 	sed -i "s/mm.stolen_base/gtt.stolen_base/" $file;
> > done
> > 
> > for file in `ls drivers/gpu/drm/i915/*.c` ; do
> > 	sed -i "s/mm.stolen/gtt.stolen/" $file;
> > done
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> 
> Before I keep on merging I'd like to clarify the plan a bit: Afaics the
> goal is to extract useful stuff shared between global gtt and ppgtt into
> i915_address_space. But I'm a bit unclear what dev_priv->mm will hold in
> the end, so I'm not sure whether moving stolen around makes sense.
> 
> Can you please elaborate on your plan a bit on how dev_priv->gtt and
> dev_priv->mm will relate in the end?
> 
> Thanks, Daniel
>
This patch is leftover from when I completely removed mm. In the high
level abstraction, the stolen memory belongs to the GTT, so I decided to
keep it. There is no other reason for the patch. We can drop it of
nobody likes it.

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center