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@ 2013-07-10 23:45 David Herrmann
  2013-07-10 23:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations David Herrmann
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From: David Herrmann @ 2013-07-10 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: dri-devel, Alexander Viro, Dave Airlie, linux-fsdevel,
	Andrew Morton, Daniel Vetter, David Herrmann

Hi

This implements anon_inodes_new() to create anonymous inodes. Patch #1
describes the changes to anon_inodes.c and why DRM could make great use of this.
Patch #2 converts DRM core to use anon_inodes_new() instead of delayed
dev_mapping initialization (but kept simple, TTM can be converted later).

The idea is to get an anonymous backing inode for DRM devices without waiting
for the first char-dev inode. We use it to unmap userspace mappings via
unmap_mapping_range() if we have to evict buffers if GTT runs short or if the FW
framebuffers are destroyed.
We need the inode only once the first user-space mapping was created, but the
delayed initialization causes an ugly code base and keeps inodes of char-devs
around just to preserve the address_space.

We actually only need the address_space, but mm core requires an corresponding
file* and FS core requires mapping->host to be set (although I am not sure
whether we can hit those paths with char-devs). So I went with the whole
anonymous inode approach.

If anyone has an idea how to use an embedded "struct address_space" inside of
"drm_device" and set "dev_mapping->host" to the shared anon_inode_inode, I'd be
happy to implement it. However, I didn't succeed and I am actually not sure that
separate "struct address_space" are actually supported. For instance, DRM core
uses code like:
  container_of(dev_mapping, struct inode, i_data)
So I didn't spent much time on that approach.

Cheers
David

David Herrmann (2):
  anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations
  DRM: use anon_inode instead of delayed inode init

 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c              |  1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c             | 24 +++--------------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c             | 12 +++++++++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c        |  4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c     |  7 ++++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_object.c       |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_ttm.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c    |  2 +-
 fs/anon_inodes.c                       | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/drm/drmP.h                     |  2 +-
 include/linux/anon_inodes.h            |  1 +
 14 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.3.2

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2013-07-11  6:29   ` Daniel Vetter
2013-07-24  9:45   ` David Herrmann
2013-07-10 23:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] DRM: use anon_inode instead of delayed inode init David Herrmann
2013-07-11  6:57   ` Daniel Vetter
2013-08-13 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Anonymous Inode Allocations David Herrmann
2013-08-13 17:42   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations David Herrmann
2013-08-13 17:42   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] DRM: use anon_inode instead of delayed inode init David Herrmann
2013-08-13 17:42   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] drm: init TTM dev_mapping in ttm_bo_device_init() David Herrmann
2013-08-13 17:42   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] drm/omap: remove useless if() in evict_entry() David Herrmann

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