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SubjectRe: User switchable HW mappings & cie
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On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:36 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Monday, 9. October 2006 13:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > One problem that occurs is that the rule for ptes with non-backing
> > > struct pages
> > > Which I think was introduced in 2.6.16:
> > >
> > > pfn_of_page == vma->vm_pgoff + ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> > >
> > > cannot be honored, at least not with the DRM memory manager, since the
> > > graphics object will be associated with a vma and not the underlying
> > > physical address. User space will have vma->vm_pgoff as a handle to the
> > > object, which may move around in graphics memory.
> >
> > That's a problem with VM_PFNMAP set indeed. get_user_pages() is a
> > non-issue with VM_IO set too but I'm not sure about other code path that
> > might try to hit here... though I think we don't hit that if MAP_SHARED,
> > Nick ?
>
> Istn't this just a non-linear PFN mapping, you are describing here?
>
> Nick:
> Cant your new fault consolidation code handle that?
> AFAICS your new .fault handler just gets the
> vma and pgoff and install the matching PTE via install_THINGIE()
> or vm_insert_THINGIE()
>
> Or do I miss sth. here?

It is somewhat yes.

Ben.


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