[Nouveau] [PATCH drm-next v5 03/14] drm: manager to keep track of GPUs VA mappings

[Christian König]

Hi Danilo,

sorry for the delayed reply. I've trying to dig myself out of a hole at 
the moment.

Am 20.06.23 um 02:42 schrieb Danilo Krummrich:
> [SNIP]
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gem.h b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> index bbc721870c13..5ec8148a30ee 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_gem.h
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
>   
>   #include <linux/kref.h>
>   #include <linux/dma-resv.h>
> +#include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
>   
>   #include <drm/drm_vma_manager.h>
>   
> @@ -379,6 +381,18 @@ struct drm_gem_object {
>   	 */
>   	struct dma_resv _resv;
>   
> +	/**
> +	 * @gpuva:
> +	 *
> +	 * Provides the list of GPU VAs attached to this GEM object.
> +	 *
> +	 * Drivers should lock list accesses with the GEMs &dma_resv lock
> +	 * (&drm_gem_object.resv).
> +	 */
> +	struct {
> +		struct list_head list;
> +	} gpuva;
> +
>   	/**
>   	 * @funcs:
>   	 *

I'm pretty sure that it's not a good idea to attach this directly to the 
GEM object.

As you wrote in the commit message it's highly driver specific what to 
map and where to map it.

Instead I suggest to have a separate structure for mappings in a VA 
space which driver can then add to their GEM objects or whatever they 
want to map into their VMs.

Regards,
Christian.