Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/vgem: properly implement mmap

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On Thu,  9 Feb 2012 00:19:31 +0100, Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mostly copied from i915 gtt mmaps, this will properly fault in pages as
> the user tries to use them. The only thing of note are that no
> prefaulting occurs, so perhaps some kind of madvise will happen later if
> needed.
> 
> The only other thing missing right not is shrinker support, which will
> come next after I figure out if locking is actually required right now.
> Hmm, and now that I think about it, mremap, and munmap may not work
> either.

I still think the mmap ioctl should be fixed to just get the mmap
offset, and you use the normal mmap() syscall later.  The
do_mmap-in-the-ioctl in the original GEM implementation was a bad idea.

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