[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/8] drm/i915: Add bind/unbind object functions to VM

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Sep 3 16:48:21 CEST 2013


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:40:36PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 01:12:55AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:43:59PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > > From: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> > > 
> > > As we plumb the code with more VM information, it has become more
> > > obvious that the easiest way to deal with bind and unbind is to simply
> > > put the function pointers in the vm, and let those choose the correct
> > > way to handle the page table updates. This change allows many places in
> > > the code to simply be vm->bind, and not have to worry about
> > > distinguishing PPGTT vs GGTT.
> > > 
> > > Notice that this patch has no impact on functionality. I've decided to
> > > save the actual change until the next patch because I think it's easier
> > > to review that way. I'm happy to squash the two, or let Daniel do it on
> > > merge.
> > > 
> > > v2:
> > > Make ggtt handle the quirky aliasing ppgtt
> > > Add flags to bind object to support above
> > > Don't ever call bind/unbind directly for PPGTT until we have real, full
> > > PPGTT (use NULLs to assert this)
> > > Make sure we rebind the ggtt if there already is a ggtt binding. This
> > > happens on set cache levels
> > > Use VMA for bind/unbind (Daniel, Ben)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> > 
> > You like pokkadot paint for its inconsistency? Other than interesting
> > alternation of styles, I see nothing wrong with the logic.
> > -Chris
> > 
> 
> To what are you referring? I'm probably more than willing to change
> whatever displeases you.

You were alternating between using temporary variables like

  const unsigned long entry = vma->node.start >> PAGE_SHIFT;

and doing the computation inline, with no consistency as far as I could
see. It was so very minor, but it looks like cut'n'paste code from
multiple sources.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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