Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: don't allocate the ring in stolen if we lack aperture

2019-10-29 Thread Daniele Ceraolo Spurio



On 10/29/19 2:51 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:

Quoting Daniele Ceraolo Spurio (2019-10-29 21:46:46)



On 10/29/19 2:58 AM, Matthew Auld wrote:

Since we have no way access it from the CPU. For such cases just
fallback to internal objects.



Since the problem is not limited to rings but it applies to all stolen
objects, wouldn't it be better to just skip the stolen initialization or
return an error from i915_gem_object_create_stolen()?


Not all stolen objects are accessed on the CPU, the problem expressed
here is not universal.
-Chris



ok, please ignore my comment then.

Daniele
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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: don't allocate the ring in stolen if we lack aperture

2019-10-29 Thread Chris Wilson
Quoting Daniele Ceraolo Spurio (2019-10-29 21:46:46)
> 
> 
> On 10/29/19 2:58 AM, Matthew Auld wrote:
> > Since we have no way access it from the CPU. For such cases just
> > fallback to internal objects.
> > 
> 
> Since the problem is not limited to rings but it applies to all stolen 
> objects, wouldn't it be better to just skip the stolen initialization or 
> return an error from i915_gem_object_create_stolen()?

Not all stolen objects are accessed on the CPU, the problem expressed
here is not universal.
-Chris
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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: don't allocate the ring in stolen if we lack aperture

2019-10-29 Thread Daniele Ceraolo Spurio



On 10/29/19 2:58 AM, Matthew Auld wrote:

Since we have no way access it from the CPU. For such cases just
fallback to internal objects.



Since the problem is not limited to rings but it applies to all stolen 
objects, wouldn't it be better to just skip the stolen initialization or 
return an error from i915_gem_object_create_stolen()?


Daniele


Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld 
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
index fa01c1407760..ece20504d240 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.c
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ static struct i915_vma *create_ring_vma(struct i915_ggtt 
*ggtt, int size)
struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
struct i915_vma *vma;
  
-	obj = i915_gem_object_create_stolen(i915, size);

+   obj = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+   if (i915_ggtt_has_aperture(ggtt))
+   obj = i915_gem_object_create_stolen(i915, size);
if (IS_ERR(obj))
obj = i915_gem_object_create_internal(i915, size);
if (IS_ERR(obj))


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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/7] drm/i915: don't allocate the ring in stolen if we lack aperture

2019-10-29 Thread Chris Wilson
Quoting Matthew Auld (2019-10-29 09:58:55)
> Since we have no way access it from the CPU. For such cases just
> fallback to internal objects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld 
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson 
-Chris
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