Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Don't pin LRC in GGTT when dumping in debugfs

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:16 AM
> To: Daniel, Thomas
> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; akash-goels@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  [PATCH] drm/i915: Don't pin LRC in GGTT when
> dumping in debugfs
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:12:05AM +0000, Thomas Daniel wrote:
> > LRC object does not need to be mapped into the GGTT when dumping. Just
> > use pin_pages. A side-effect of this patch is that a compiler warning
> > goes away (not checking return value of i915_gem_obj_ggtt_pin).
> 
> Please explain why you need to pin the pages.
I suppose I don't as this is protected by the struct mutex and unpin is called before returning.

Thomas.

> -Chris
> 
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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