Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: add gem ttm helpers

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:36 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > > > Same for this, you're just upcasting to ttm_bo and then downcasting to
> > > > gem_bo again ... I think just a series to roll out the existing gem
> > > > helpers everywhere should work?
> > >
> > > I don't think so.  drm_gem_dumb_map_offset() calls
> > > drm_gem_create_mmap_offset(), which I think is not correct for ttm
> > > objects because ttm_bo_init() handles vma_node initialization.
> >
> > More code to unify first? This should work exactly the same way for
> > all gem based drivers I think ... Only tricky bit is making sure
> > vmwgfx keeps working correctly.
>
> Yea.  Unifying on the gem way of doing things isn't going to work very
> well.  We would have to keep the current way of doing things in the ttm
> code, wrapped into "if (ttm_bo_uses_embedded_gem_object()) { ... }", to
> not break vmwgfx.
>
> So adding gem ttm helpers (where gem+ttm drivers can opt-in) looked like
> the better way of handling this to me ...

Ok I looked again, and your ttm version seems to exactly match
drm_gem_dumb_map_offset(), which we almost called
drm_gem_map_offset(). And could do that again by undoing that revert.
So I'm not seeing how a generic version for this stuff here wouldn't
also work for ttm ... Ofc if vmwgfx does something else they can keep
their own specific dumb map_offset implementation.

What am I missing?
-Daniel
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