Re: [PATCH 1/5] drm/i915/gtt: Add read only pages to gen8_pte_encode

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On 31 May 2018 at 12:35, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> We can set a bit inside the ppGTT PTE to indicate a page is read-only;
> writes from the GPU will be discarded. We can use this to protect pages
> and in particular support read-only userptr mappings (necessary for
> importing PROT_READ vma).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

fwiw I didn't see any surprises with ro 2M/64K PTEs when testing locally.

For the series:
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
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