linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/8] [Intel IOMMU] Graphics driver workarounds to provide unity map

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:40:21 +0800
From:	Wang Zhenyu <zhenyu.z.wang@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hch@...radead.org,
	ashok.raj@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, muli@...ibm.com, asit.k.mallick@...el.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, shaohua.li@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch 5/8] [Intel IOMMU] Graphics driver workarounds to provide unity map

On 2007.04.10 11:12:17 +0000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:57PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> > > > Most GFX drivers don't call standard PCI DMA APIs to allocate DMA buffer,
> > > > Such drivers will be broken with IOMMU enabled. To workaround this issue, 
> > > > we added two options.
> > > 
> > > All drm drivers do it.  If the usual out of tree crap vendors are too
> > > stupid for their own sake it's their fault.
> > > 
> > > So NACK to this patch.
> > 
> > That's my feeling as well, everything we care about should be using
> > the proper APIs or else what is the point of them...
> 
> They can't. There is no proper API to do IOMMU mappings from user space.
> And that is how Xorg on x86 works.
> 
> I had some hackish patches to enable mapping on /sys/bus/pci/.../coherent_mem, but
> you need ioctls to pass out the translated address and it wasn't
> exactly pretty. Still also not sure that's the right way.
> 

For agpgart based gfx driver, we need to enable dma mapping on agpgart module, 
which would work in the IOMMU case. I attach my current patches to do this.
Dave, how do you think about it?


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