[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915/gtt: Add read only pages to gen8_pte_encode

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 10:19 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> From: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield at intel.com>
> 
> We can set a bit inside the ppGTT PTE to indicate a page is read-only;
> writes from the GPU will be discarded. We can use this to protect pages
> and in particular support read-only userptr mappings (necessary for
> importing PROT_READ vma).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Graphics Center
Intel Corporation