On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:29:25PM +0530, sourab.gupta@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Sourab Gupta <sourab.gupta@xxxxxxxxx> > > Adding the flag 'I915_CPU_MAP_NOT_NEEDED' to gem_create ioctl. > This is to indicate the driver that direct cpu access to this > buffer object is not needed and hence Driver can opt to use Stolen > area as a backing store for it. When this flag is set, try to > allocate the objects from Stolen area. Fallback to shmem in case > of allocation failure. Besides the issue of http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/11/botching-up-ioctls.html, this has an information leak that we are not clearing the stolen pages. Danny got extremely fussy over that when I sent this code almost 9 months ago. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
