On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 09:30:32AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Drivers should not have to care about internal locking of GEM VRAM objects > and their memory-mapping structures. This patch set removes both from the > GEM VRAM interface. > > This affects the ast and mgag200 drivers. In places where GEM objects are > being locked by the driver, the patch converts the lock operation to a pin > operation. The locking prevented the memory manager from moving the object, > so pinning is more appropriate. > > For the memory mappings, all book-keeping is done by the implementation > of GEM VRAM. Explicit kmap objects are removed from the module's public > interfaces. This change mostly affects the cursor handling in ast and > mgag200, which is being simplified by this patch set. > > Future directions: with these patches in place, more code in mode setting > and fbdev emulation can be shared between ast and mgag200. > > The patches have been tested on ast and mgag200 hardware. > > v3: > * document PRIME pin flags > * pin cursor BOs at current location > v2: > * support pinning BOs at current location > * pin PRIME buffers to current locationA
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