[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] [i915] Getting rid of GUP and use HMM for user ptr features.

jglisse at redhat.com jglisse at redhat.com
Mon Sep 10 00:57:34 UTC 2018


From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>

[This depends on some HMM patchset queued upstream see branch [1]]

This is simple change to switch to use HMM for user ptr buffer object
which conveniently avoid to pin pages. I have more things in the pipe
to make HMM more usefull for such cases (like sharing more resources
accross multiple mirror of a same process).

Beside avoiding pining, this is also an attempt to isolate core mm
from device drivers by having clearly define API and boundary where
we can set expection of everyone and thus having mm folks to have to
read and understand driver code and conversly having driver folks
understand mm maze.

This is also part of what i want to discuss during XDC2018.

Consider this as an RFC to start the discussion.

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-intel-v00

Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org

Jérôme Glisse (2):
  gpu/i915: use HMM mirror instead of mmu_notifier
  gpu/i915: use HMM mirror for userptr buffer object.

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig            |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c | 395 ++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)

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