On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:36 PM Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:54 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:25:19PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > The buffer object must be reserved before calling
> > > > ttm_bo_validate for pinning/unpinning.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > Seems a bit a bisect fumble in your series here: legacy kms code reserved
> > > the ttm bo before calling boch_bo_pin/unpin, your atomic code doesn't. I
> > > think pushing this into bochs_bo_pin/unpin makes sense for atomic, but to
> > > avoid bisect fail I think you need to have these temporarily in your
> > > cleanup/prepare_plane functions too.
> >
> > I think I've sorted that.  Have some other changes too, will probably
> > send v3 tomorrow.
> >
> > > Looked through the entire series, this here is the only issue I think
> > > should be fixed before merging (making atomic_enable optional can be done
> > > as a follow-up if you feel like it). With that addressed on the series:
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > While being at it:  I'm also looking at dma-buf export and import
> > support for the qemu drivers.
> >
> > Right now both qxl and virtio have gem_prime_get_sg_table and
> > gem_prime_import_sg_table handlers which throw a WARN_ONCE() and return
> > an error.
> >
> > If I understand things correctly it is valid to set all import/export
> > callbacks (prime_handle_to_fd, prime_fd_to_handle,
> > gem_prime_get_sg_table, gem_prime_import_sg_table) to NULL when not
> > supporting dma-buf import/export and still advertise DRIVER_PRIME to
> > indicate the other prime callbacks are supported (so generic fbdev
> > emulation can use gem_prime_vmap etc).  Is that correct?
>
> I'm not sure how much that's a good idea ... Never thought about it
> tbh. All the fbdev/dma-buf stuff has plenty of hacks and
> inconsistencies still, so I guess we can't make it much worse really.
>
> > On exporting:
> >
> > TTM_PL_TT should be easy, just pin the buffer, grab the pages list and
> > feed that into drm_prime_pages_to_sg.  Didn't try yet though.  Is that
> > approach correct?
> >
> > Is it possible to export TTM_PL_VRAM objects (with backing storage being
> > a pci memory bar)?  If so, how?
>
> Not really in general. amdgpu upcasts to amdgpu_bo (if it's amgpu BO)
> and then knows the internals so it can do a proper pci peer2peer
> mapping. Or at least there's been lots of patches floating around to
> make that happen.

Here's Christian's WIP stuff for adding device memory support to dma-buf:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~deathsimple/linux/log/?h=p2p

Alex

>
> I think other drivers migrate the bo out of VRAM.
>
> > On importing:
> >
> > Importing into TTM_PL_TT object looks easy again, at least when the
> > object is actually stored in RAM.  What if not?
>
> They are all supposed to be stored in RAM. Note that all current ttm
> importers totally break the abstraction, by taking the sg list,
> throwing the dma mapping away and assuming there's a struct page
> backing it. Would be good if we could stop spreading that abuse - the
> dma-buf interfaces have been modelled after the ttm bo interfaces, so
> shouldn't be too hard to wire this up correctly.
>
> > Importing into TTM_PL_VRAM:  Impossible I think, without copying over
> > the data.  Should that be done?  If so, how?  Or is it better to just
> > not support import then?
>
> Hm, since you ask about TTM concepts and not what this means in terms
> of dma-buf: As long as you upcast to the ttm_bo you can do whatever
> you want to really. But with plain dma-buf this doesn't work right now
> (least because ttm assumes it gets system RAM on import, in theory you
> could put the peer2peer dma mapping into the sg list and it should
> work).
> -Daniel
>
> >
> > thanks,
> >   Gerd
> >
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