Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf

From	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf
Date	2017-05-11 15:30 +0200
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  Hi,

> While read the framebuffer region we have to tell the vendor driver which framebuffer we want to read? There are two framebuffers now in KVMGT that is primary and cursor.
> There are two methods to implement this:
> 1) write the plane id first and then read the framebuffer.
> 2) create 2 vfio regions one for primary and one for cursor.

(3) Place information for both planes into one vfio region.
    Which allows to fetch both with a single read() syscall.

The question is how you'll get the file descriptor then.  If the ioctl
returns the dma-buf fd only you have a racy interface:  Things can
change between read(vfio-region) and ioctl(need-dmabuf-fd).

ioctl(need-dma-buf) could return both dmabuf fd and plane info to fix
the race, but then it is easier to go with ioctl only interface (simliar
to the orginal one from dec last year) I think.

cheers,
  Gerd

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[RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Xiaoguang Chen <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 11:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-02 12:00 +0200
    RE: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf "Chen, Xiaoguang" <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com> - 2017-05-03 03:50 +0200
      RE: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf "Chen, Xiaoguang" <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com> - 2017-05-04 05:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-05-04 18:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-05 09:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-05-05 17:20 +0200
              RE: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf "Chen, Xiaoguang" <xiaoguang.chen@intel.com> - 2017-05-11 10:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-11 15:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: support QEMU getting the dmabuf Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-05-11 17:50 +0200

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