[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 11/23] drm/i915/gem: Remove the call for no-evict i915_vma_pin

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2020-07-03 09:59:01)
> 
> On 02/07/2020 09:32, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Remove the stub i915_vma_pin() used for incrementally pining objects for
> > execbuf (under the severe restriction that they must not wait on a
> > resource as we may have already pinned it) and replace it with a
> > i915_vma_pin_inplace() that is only allowed to reclaim the currently
> > bound location for the vma (and will never wait for a pinned resource).
> 
> Hm I thought the point of the previous patch ("drm/i915/gem: Break apart 
> the early i915_vma_pin from execbuf object lookup") was to move the 
> pinning into a phase under the ww lock, where it will be allowed. I 
> misunderstood something?

Still different locks, and the vm->mutex is still being used for managing
the iova assignments.
-Chris