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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:16:04 +0000
From: "Zhang, Tina" <tina.zhang@...el.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v10] vfio: ABI for mdev display dma-buf operation
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerd Hoffmann [mailto:kraxel@...hat.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 7:03 PM
> To: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>; Zhang, Tina
> <tina.zhang@...el.com>; Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian@...el.com>; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org;
> alex.williamson@...hat.com; zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com; chris@...is-
> wilson.co.uk; Lv, Zhiyuan <zhiyuan.lv@...el.com>; intel-gvt-
> dev@...ts.freedesktop.org; Wang, Zhi A <zhi.a.wang@...el.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] vfio: ABI for mdev display dma-buf operation
>
> Hi,
>
> > No need of flag here. If vGPU driver is not loaded in the guest, there
> > is no surface being managed by vGPU, in that case this size will be
> > zero.
>
> Ok, we certainly have the same situation with intel. When the guest driver is not
> loaded (yet) there is no valid surface.
>
> We should cleanly define what the ioctl should do in that case, so all drivers
> behave the same way.
>
> I'd suggest that all fields defining the surface (drm_format, width, height, stride,
> size) should be set to zero in that case.
Yeah, it's reasonable. How about the return value? Currently, the ioctl also returns "-ENODEV" in that situation.
thanks,
Tina
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
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