Re: [PATCH 2/5] drm/virtio: add uapi for in and out explicit fences
From: Emil Velikov
Date: Tue Oct 30 2018 - 07:32:25 EST
HI Gerd,
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 06:11, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > The execbuffer IOCTL is now read-write to allow the userspace to read the
> > out-fence.
>
> > #define DRM_IOCTL_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER \
> > - DRM_IOW(DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER,\
> > + DRM_IOWR(DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER,\
> > struct drm_virtgpu_execbuffer)
>
> That changes the ioctl number and breaks the userspace api.
>
Have you looked at the drm_ioctl() implementation? AFAICT it
explicitly caters for this kind of changes.
-Emil