On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:35:35AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:

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However if we don't set a dma mask on the usb device, the mapping ends up using swiotlb on machines that have it enabled, which is less than desireable.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com

Fyi for everyone else who was not on irc when Dave&I discussed this: This really shouldn't be required and I think the real issue is that udl creates a dma_buf attachement (which is needed for device dma only), but only really wants to do cpu access through vmap/kmap. So not attached the device should be good enough. Cc'ing a few more lists for better fyi ;-)

Though I've looked at this a bit more, and since I want to be able to expose shared objects as proper GEM objects from the import side I really need that list of pages.

Hm, what does "proper GEM object" mean in the context of udl? -Daniel

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Dave Airlie airlied@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Daniel Vetter daniel@ffwll.ch wrote:

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On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:35:35AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:

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However if we don't set a dma mask on the usb device, the mapping ends up using swiotlb on machines that have it enabled, which is less than desireable.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com

Fyi for everyone else who was not on irc when Dave&I discussed this: This really shouldn't be required and I think the real issue is that udl creates a dma_buf attachement (which is needed for device dma only), but only really wants to do cpu access through vmap/kmap. So not attached the device should be good enough. Cc'ing a few more lists for better fyi ;-)

Though I've looked at this a bit more, and since I want to be able to expose shared objects as proper GEM objects from the import side I really need that list of pages.

Hm, what does "proper GEM object" mean in the context of udl?

One that appears the same as a GEM object created by userspace. i.e. mmap works.

Oh, we have an mmap interface in the dma_buf thing for that, and iirc Rob Clark even bothered to implement the gem->dma_buf mmap forwarding somewhere. And iirc android's ion-on-dma_buf stuff is even using the mmap interface stuff.

Now for prime "let's just ship this, dammit" prevailed for now. But I still think that hiding the backing storage a bit better (with the eventual goal of supporting eviction with Maarten's fence/ww_mutex madness) feels like a worthy long-term goal.

Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

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One that appears the same as a GEM object created by userspace. i.e. mmap works.

Oh, we have an mmap interface in the dma_buf thing for that, and iirc Rob Clark even bothered to implement the gem->dma_buf mmap forwarding somewhere. And iirc android's ion-on-dma_buf stuff is even using the mmap interface stuff.

fwiw, what I did was dma_buf -> gem mmap fwding, ie. implement mmap for the dmabuf object by fwd'ing it to my normal gem mmap code. Might be the opposite of what you are looking for here. Although I suppose the reverse could work to, I hadn't really thought about it yet.

Yeah thats the opposite, I want to implement my GEM mmap ioctls using dma-buf mmaps :)

Dave.