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From: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>,
	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
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC 1/2] dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:59:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF6AEGtgjjtVraeji09zKJSTmokmQqfk5S8LfHoMhHJY03dLkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uE14gOsTUYZknmSArkzG2zSSbpDeU0dxqAtLVUmvh-5bA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 17:28, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> 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 object
>> lifetime and memory ownership rules need fixing up (i.e. leaks like a
>> sieve).
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=drm-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

BR,
-R

> Comments?
>
> Cheers, Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-27  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-11  9:23 [RFC 0/2] " Sumit Semwal
2011-10-11  9:23 ` [RFC 1/2] dma-buf: " Sumit Semwal
2011-10-12 12:41   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Dave Airlie
2011-10-12 13:28     ` Rob Clark
2011-10-12 13:35       ` Dave Airlie
2011-10-12 13:50         ` Rob Clark
2011-10-12 14:01           ` Dave Airlie
2011-10-12 14:24             ` Rob Clark
2011-10-12 14:34               ` Dave Airlie
2011-10-12 14:49                 ` Daniel Vetter
2011-10-12 15:15                 ` Rob Clark
2011-10-14 10:00   ` Tomasz Stanislawski
2011-10-14 14:13     ` Sumit Semwal
2011-10-14 15:34     ` Rob Clark
2011-10-14 15:35     ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-03  8:04       ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-08 16:59         ` Clark, Rob
2011-11-08 17:42           ` [RFC 1/2] dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanismch Daniel Vetter
2011-11-08 17:55             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-08 18:43               ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-28  7:47                 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-28 10:34                   ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-25 14:13   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFC 1/2] dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism Dave Airlie
2011-11-25 16:02     ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-25 16:15   ` Dave Airlie
2011-11-25 16:28     ` Dave Airlie
2011-11-26 14:00       ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-27  6:59         ` Rob Clark [this message]
2011-12-01  5:51           ` Semwal, Sumit
2011-12-01  5:55             ` Semwal, Sumit
2011-10-11  9:23 ` [RFC 2/2] dma-buf: Documentation for buffer sharing framework Sumit Semwal
2011-10-12 22:30   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-13  4:48     ` Semwal, Sumit

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