[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Add kerneldoc to describe i915_gem_object.vma_list

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu May 25 20:48:18 UTC 2017


Add kerneldoc for the vma_list stored on the i915_gem_object, in
particular, documenting the expected ordering of elements -- i.e. that
we do expect GGTT VMA first followed by the ppGTT VMA.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h
index 35e1a27729dc..915057824284 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_object.h
@@ -68,8 +68,23 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object {
 
 	const struct drm_i915_gem_object_ops *ops;
 
-	/** List of VMAs backed by this object */
+	/**
+	 * @vma_list: List of VMAs backed by this object
+	 *
+	 * The VMA on this list are ordered by type, all GGTT vma are placed
+	 * at the head and all ppGTT vma are placed at the tail. The different
+	 * types of GGTT vma are unordered between themselves, use the
+	 * @vma_tree (which has a defined order between all VMA) to find an
+	 * exact match.
+	 */
 	struct list_head vma_list;
+	/**
+	 * @vma_tree: Ordered tree of VMAs backed by this object
+	 *
+	 * All VMA created for this object are placed in the @vma_tree for
+	 * fast retrieval via a binary search in i915_vma_instance().
+	 * They are also added to @vma_list for easy iteration.
+	 */
 	struct rb_root vma_tree;
 
 	/** Stolen memory for this object, instead of being backed by shmem. */
-- 
2.11.0



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