Re: [PATCH v2 13/15] drm/ttm: Add BO and offset arguments for vm_access and vm_fault ttm handlers.

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On 5/18/21 5:29 PM, Christian König wrote:


Am 18.05.21 um 17:25 schrieb Thomas Hellström:

On 5/18/21 5:17 PM, Christian König wrote:


Am 18.05.21 um 17:11 schrieb Thomas Hellström:

On 5/18/21 5:07 PM, Christian König wrote:
Am 18.05.21 um 16:55 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This allows other drivers that may not setup the vma in the same way
to use the ttm bo helpers.

Uff can you please explain why exactly you need that?

Providing the BO is not much of a problem, but having the BO at different VMA offsets is really a no-go with TTM.

Christian.

The current i915 uapi is using different offsets for different caching :/. We're currently working around that by using ttm_bo_type_kernel (no TTM vma offset at all) and i915's offset.

Can you instead adjust the offset in the mmap callback like we do for dma-buf?
Will have to take a look.

That's really a no-go what you describe here because it will mess up reverse mapping lockup for buffer movement.

You mean the unmap_mapping_range() stuff? That's not a problem since it's a NOP for kernel ttm buffers, and the i915 move() / swap_notify() takes care of killing the ptes.

That design is a certain NAK from my side for upstreaming this.

PTE handling is the domain of TTM, drivers should never mess with that directly.

Hmm. May I humbly suggest a different view on this:

I agree fully for ttm_bo_type_device bos but for ttm_bo_type_kernel, TTM has no business whatsoever with user-space PTEs. That's really why that bo type exists in the first place. But otoh one can of course argue that then i915 has no business calling the TTM fault helper for these bos.

So for discrete we can probably do the right thing with ttm_bo_type_device. What worries me a bit is when we get to older hardware support because whatever we do is by definition going to be ugly. At best we might be able to split the address space between i915's mmos, and hand the rest to TTM, modifying offsets as you suggest. That way a TTM call to unmap_mapping_range() would do the right thing, I think.

/Thomas


Christian.


While we're in the process of killing that offset flexibility for discrete, we can't do so for older hardware unfortunately.

/Thomas



Christian.





/Thomas






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