Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Avoid writing relocs with addresses in non-canonical form

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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:41:11PM +0000, Winiarski, Michal wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 17:18 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 04:20:43PM +0100, Michał Winiarski wrote:
> > > According to bspec, some parts of HW expect the addresses to be in
> > > a canonical form, where bits [63:48] == [47]. Let's convert
> > > addresses to
> > > canonical form prior to relocating and return converted offsets to
> > > userspace.
> > > 
> > > v2: Whitespace fixup, gen8_canonical_addr description (Chris,
> > > Ville)
> > > 
> > > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Can we igt this? Maybe with softpin or whatever ... For cpu address
> > space
> > negative addresses are for the kernel, but I think on the gpu we can
> > do
> > them.
> 
> Yup - would definitely be useful, I can add something to one of the
> existing reloc tests, but without softpin it's tricky to cover this in
> a reliable way (not to mention corner cases).

Oh without softpin it's going to be impossible I think ;-)
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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