[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: don't allocate the ring in stolen if we lack aperture

Daniele Ceraolo Spurio daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com
Tue Oct 29 21:59:27 UTC 2019



On 10/29/19 2:51 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Daniele Ceraolo Spurio (2019-10-29 21:46:46)
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/19 2:58 AM, Matthew Auld wrote:
>>> Since we have no way access it from the CPU. For such cases just
>>> fallback to internal objects.
>>>
>>
>> Since the problem is not limited to rings but it applies to all stolen
>> objects, wouldn't it be better to just skip the stolen initialization or
>> return an error from i915_gem_object_create_stolen()?
> 
> Not all stolen objects are accessed on the CPU, the problem expressed
> here is not universal.
> -Chris
> 

ok, please ignore my comment then.

Daniele


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