linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:30:27 +0100 (IST)
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
To:	Thomas Hellström <thomas@...pmail.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

> >   
> There is a ttm_fbdev_mmap() function in TTM that may help in this situation.
> As with the standard ttm mmap it's using fault() which means it's possible to
> move out the backing buffer object if you first reserve it and then call
> unmap_mapping_range() on the relevant fbdev address space to kill existing
> user-space mappings.

Yup I've looked at this from the fbdev pov, however I hit the same problem
with the fbcon writes happening pretty much whenever they wanted to.

It might be possible to move the fbcon around by updating screen_base, but 
you'd need to have some sort of lock around the read/write functions, I 
think locking on each individual read/write might be a lot of overhead.

Ideallly something analogous to the X server Prepare/Finish access hooks.

Dave.

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