[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v13 6/7] drm/i915: Introduce GEM proxy

[Zhang, Tina]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dri-devel [mailto:dri-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
> Joonas Lahtinen
> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 4:24 PM
> To: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang at intel.com>; intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org; intel-
> gvt-dev at lists.freedesktop.org; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org;
> ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com; zhenyuw at linux.intel.com; Lv, Zhiyuan
> <zhiyuan.lv at intel.com>; Wang, Zhi A <zhi.a.wang at intel.com>;
> alex.williamson at redhat.com; kraxel at redhat.com; chris at chris-wilson.co.uk;
> daniel at ffwll.ch; kwankhede at nvidia.com; Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v13 6/7] drm/i915: Introduce GEM proxy
> 
> On ti, 2017-07-25 at 17:28 +0800, Tina Zhang wrote:
> > GEM proxy is a kind of GEM, whose backing physical memory is pinned
> > and produced by guest VM and is used by host as read only. With GEM
> > proxy, host is able to access guest physical memory through GEM object
> > interface. As GEM proxy is such a special kind of GEM, a new flag
> > I915_GEM_OBJECT_IS_PROXY is introduced to ban host from changing the
> > backing storage of GEM proxy.
> >
> 
> It is a good idea to add a changelog here to indicate what was changed since the
> last patch revision. It'll be easier for the reviewer to spot the differences.
> 
> It's also a good idea to add Cc: line for somebody who provided previous review,
> this will, too, allow spotting the patch quicker.
Indeed. Thanks.

Tina
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Tina Zhang <tina.zhang at intel.com>
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > @@ -1730,7 +1744,7 @@ i915_gem_mmap_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
> void *data,
> >  	 */
> >  	if (!obj->base.filp) {
> >  		i915_gem_object_put(obj);
> > -		return -EINVAL;
> > +		return -EPERM;
> >  	}
> 
> This hunk should be separate bugfix patch, but other than that the patch looks
> OK to me.
Thanks. I will send this patch separately.

Tina
> 
> I'll let Chris comment if he feels previous comments were adequately addressed.
> 
> Regards, Joonas
> --
> Joonas Lahtinen
> Open Source Technology Center
> Intel Corporation
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