On Tue,  4 Sep 2012 21:02:54 +0100
Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> We need to refcount our pages in order to prevent reaping them at
> inopportune times, such as when they currently vmapped or exported to
> another driver. However, we also wish to keep the lazy deallocation of
> our pages so we need to take a pin/unpinned approach rather than a
> simple refcount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> ---

Why do we need the pages pinned if the object is vmapped?  Shouldn't we
only pin if a vmapped object is currently being used by the GPU or
mapped through the GTT?  Or is that what you meant?

Assuming that's correct:
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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