On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 at 17:45, Christian König <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/25/25 00:44, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > Move the DRM buddy allocator one level up so that it can be used by GPU > > drivers (example, nova-core) that have usecases other than DRM (such as > > VFIO vGPU support). Modify the API, structures and Kconfigs to use > > "gpu_buddy" terminology. Adapt the drivers and tests to use the new API. > > > > The commit cannot be split due to bissectability, however no functional > > change is intended. Verified by running K-UNIT tests and build tested > > various configurations. > > Well such a change needs to be part of the patch set which actually starts to > use it outside of drivers/gpu/drm.
I'm not sure it really makes sense yet to force that for this, since the next patch would be just adding rust bindings to it, then a patch to nova-core would be needed to use it, I'd rather not merge something like this via the rust or nova trees as it breaks the principle of least surprise. Maybe this + rust bindings might be enough to justify it, but it should be reviewable as a standalone idea. Dave.
