Am 31.01.24 um 11:20 schrieb Zhang, Julia:
On 2024/1/30 22:23, Christian König wrote:
Am 30.01.24 um 12:16 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:10:31PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
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Hi Sima, Christian,
Yeah, that is really just speculative. All importers need to set the peer2peer
flag just in case.
I see, I will modify this.
What happens under the hood is that IOMMU redirects the "VRAM" memory access to
whatever address the DMA-buf on the host is pointing to (system, VRAM, doorbell, IOMMU,
whatever).
I'm also not 100% sure if all the cache snooping is done correctly in all
cases, but for now it seems to work.
Frankly the more I look at the original patch that added vram export
support the more this just looks like a "pls revert, this is just too
broken".
The commit I mean is this one: ea5ea3d8a117 ("drm/virtio: support mapping
exported vram"). The commit message definitely needs to cite that one, and
also needs a cc: stable because not rejecting invalid imports is a pretty
big deal.
Yeah, I've pointed out that commit in an internal discussion as well. I was
just not aware that it's that severely broken.
Yeah we have mentioned this patch before, but I don't totally understand why
this is too broken. Without exporting vram objects, dGPU prime feature would
not be realized.
Would you mind to explain more about it. Thanks!
One reason is that using sg tables without struct pages is actually a
hack we came up with because we couldn't hope to clean up the sg table
structure any time soon to not include struct page pointers.
Another reason is that using this with devices which don't expect a DMA
address pointing into a virtual PCI BAR. So doing this without checking
the peer2peer flag can most likely cause quite a bit of trouble.
Regards,
Christian.
Best regards,
Julia
Regards,
Christian.