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Commit 8613385c authored by Daniel Vetter's avatar Daniel Vetter
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dma-fence: Document recoverable page fault implications

Recently there was a fairly long thread about recoreable hardware page
faults, how they can deadlock, and what to do about that.

While the discussion is still fresh I figured good time to try and
document the conclusions a bit. This documentation section explains
what's the potential problem, and the remedies we've discussed,
roughly ordered from best to worst.

v2: Linus -> Linux typoe (Dave)

v3:
- Make it clear drivers only need to implement one option (Christian)
- Make it clearer that implicit sync is out the window with exclusive
  fences (Christian)
- Add the fairly theoretical option of segementing the memory (either
  statically or through dynamic checks at runtime for which piece of
  memory is managed how) and explain why it's not a great idea (Felix)

References: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210107030127.20393-1-Felix.Kuehling@amd.com/


Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFelix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
c: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210203152921.2429937-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
parent 67cc24ac
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