Re: [RFC] dma-buf: Implement test module

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Sat Dec 14 2013 - 07:37:20 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 12/12/2013 03:36 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>
> >> This is a simple test module that can be used to allocate, export and
> >> delete DMA-BUF objects. It can be used to test DMA-BUF sharing in
> >> systems that lack a real second driver.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Looks nice. I wonder whether this could be extended to create a "streaming"
> > dma-buf from a user space mapping. That could be used as a generic way to
> > implement streaming (user) buffer objects, rather than to add explicit
> > support for those in, for example, TTM.
>
> Atm there's no way to get gpus to unbind their dma-buf mappings, so
> their essentially pinned forever from first use on.

Shouldn't this work by simply calling the GEM_CLOSE IOCTL on the handle
returned by drmPrimeFDToHandle()? I mean that should drop the last
reference on the GEM object and cause it to be cleaned up (which should
include detaching the DMA-BUF).

Thierry

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