[Intel-gfx] [RFC 02/13] drm/i915/svm: Define SVM UAPI

[Niranjan Vishwanathapura]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 03:44:26PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
>Quoting Niranjana Vishwanathapura (2019-11-22 22:57:23)
>> Define UAPI for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) fucntionality including
>> SVM capability and configurability.
>> When there is no GPU page fault support available, add ioctls
>> to explicitly bind and migrate virtual address ranges.
>>
>> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield at intel.com>
>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
>> Cc: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Niranjana Vishwanathapura <niranjana.vishwanathapura at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Venkata Sandeep Dhanalakota <venkata.s.dhanalakota at intel.com>
>
>Having this as a separate commit ahead of the functionality breaks
>bisecting.
>
>The uAPI should be exposed in similar sized chunks as it's implemented.
>If it has to go in as single patch, that should be after all the
>plumbing is already in place.
>
>That also gives a clear indication to anybody backporting that you
>need to backport until the uAPI patch.
>

Ok, will include ioctls in the relavant patches instead of this separate patch.

Thanks,
Niranjana

>Regards, Joonas