Re: [PATCH 15/15] amdgpu: remove CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_USERPTR

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 02:58:58PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:51 PM Kuehling, Felix <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 2019-08-06 13:44, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:05:53PM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > >> The option is just used to select HMM mirror support and has a very
> > >> confusing help text.  Just pull in the HMM mirror code by default
> > >> instead.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig                 |  2 ++
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig      | 10 ----------
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c |  6 ------
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.h | 12 ------------
> > >>   4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> > > Felix, was this an effort to avoid the arch restriction on hmm or
> > > something? Also can't see why this was like this.
> >
> > This option predates KFD's support of userptrs, which in turn predates
> > HMM. Radeon has the same kind of option, though it doesn't affect HMM in
> > that case.
> >
> > Alex, Christian, can you think of a good reason to maintain userptr
> > support as an option in amdgpu? I suspect it was originally meant as a
> > way to allow kernels with amdgpu without MMU notifiers. Now it would
> > allow a kernel with amdgpu without HMM or MMU notifiers. I don't know if
> > this is a useful thing to have.
> 
> Right.  There were people that didn't have MMU notifiers that wanted
> support for the GPU.

?? Is that even a real thing? mmu_notifier does not have much kconfig
dependency.

Jason