On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 02:47:48PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:18:40PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > For stolen pages, since it is verboten to access them directly on many > > architectures, we have to read them through the GTT aperture. If they > > are not accessible through the aperture, then we have to abort. > > > > This was complicated by > > > > commit 8b6124a633d8095b0c8364f585edff9c59568a96 > > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Jan 30 14:38:16 2014 +0000 > > > > drm/i915: Don't access snooped pages through the GTT (even for error capture) > > > > and the desire to use stolen memory for ringbuffers, contexts and > > batches in the future. > > I am somewhat unclear as to whether we want to prefer the aperture for > reading back objects which may be mapped in multiple address spaces. Is there a polished version of this floating somewhere which I've missed? -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
