From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1D46B004D for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:55:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-yw0-f54.google.com with SMTP id 17so1725773ywp.41 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:55:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1318325033-32688-1-git-send-email-sumit.semwal@ti.com> <1318325033-32688-2-git-send-email-sumit.semwal@ti.com> From: "Semwal, Sumit" Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:25:02 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC 1/2] dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rob Clark Cc: Daniel Vetter , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, arnd@arndb.de, jesse.barker@linaro.org Hi Dave, Daniel, Rob, > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Rob Clark wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 17:28, Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> I've rebuilt my PRIME interface on top of dmabuf to see how it would >> >> work, >> >> >> >> I've got primed gears running again on top, but I expect all my objec= t >> >> lifetime and memory ownership rules need fixing up (i.e. leaks like a >> >> sieve). >> >> >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=3Ddrm-prime-dmabuf >> >> >> >> has the i915/nouveau patches for the kernel to produce the prime >> >> interface. >> > >> > I've noticed that your implementations for get_scatterlist (at least >> > for the i915 driver) doesn't return the sg table mapped into the >> > device address space. I've checked and the documentation makes it >> > clear that this should be the case (and we really need this to support >> > certain insane hw), but the get/put_scatterlist names are a bit >> > misleading. Proposal: >> > >> > - use struct sg_table instead of scatterlist like you've already done >> > in you branch. Simply more consistent with the dma api. >> >> yup >> >> > - rename get/put_scatterlist into map/unmap for consistency with all >> > the map/unmap dma api functions. The attachement would then serve as >> > the abstract cookie to the backing storage, similar to how struct page >> > * works as an abstract cookie for dma_map/unmap_page. The only special >> > thing is that struct device * parameter because that's already part of >> > the attachment. >> >> yup >> >> > - add new wrapper functions dma_buf_map_attachment and >> > dma_buf_unmap_attachement to hide all the pointer/vtable-chasing that >> > we currently expose to users of this interface. >> >> I thought that was one of the earlier comments on the initial dmabuf >> patch, but either way: yup > Thanks for your comments; I will incorporate all of these in the next version I'll send out. >> >> >> BR, >> -R > BR, Sumit. >> >> >> > Comments? >> > >> > Cheers, Daniel >> > -- >> > Daniel Vetter >> > daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch - +41 (0) 79 364 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" >> > in >> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org