Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Request PIN_GLOBAL when pinning a vma for GTT relocations

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:21:36AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 08:49:08PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:20:58PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:53:53PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > Always require PIN_GLOBAL when we want a mappable offset (PIN_MAPPABLE).
> > > > This causes the pin to fixup the global binding in cases were the vma
> > > > was already bound (and due to the proceeding bug, we considered it to be
> > > > already mappable).
> > > > 
> > > > References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85671
> > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c            | 2 +-
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 +-
> > > >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > > index fe6c602a2a00..0c82a4d2cd0c 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > > > @@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ search_free:
> > > >  
> > > >  	trace_i915_vma_bind(vma, flags);
> > > >  	vma->bind_vma(vma, obj->cache_level,
> > > > -		      flags & (PIN_MAPPABLE | PIN_GLOBAL) ? GLOBAL_BIND : 0);
> > > > +		      flags & PIN_GLOBAL ? GLOBAL_BIND : 0);
> > > 
> > > Hm, why this? If we want to reduce the interface complexity maybe we
> > > should throw in a WARN_ON if PIN_MAPPABLE is set, but PIN_GLOBAL isnt?
> > > Just removing this safeguard make me a bit uneasy ...
> > 
> > Just review all the users, takes less than 2 minutes ;)
> > It's a wart in the interface, which should do as I say, not guess, and
> > PIN_MAPPABLE doesn't translate well to GLOBAL_BIND imo.
> 
> I don't object to the functional change, it makes sense. But I think
> throwing in the safeguard WARN_ON would be useful.

Done as per our irc discussion and merged them all.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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