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Commit ebdf5651 authored by Dave Airlie's avatar Dave Airlie
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drm/ttm: add multihop infrastrucutre (v3)



Currently drivers get called to move a buffer, but if they have to
move it temporarily through another space (SYSTEM->VRAM via TT)
then they can end up with a lot of ttm->driver->ttm call stacks,
if the temprorary space moves requires eviction.

Instead of letting the driver do all the placement/space for the
temporary, allow it to report back (-EMULTIHOP) and a placement (hop)
to the move code, which will then do the temporary move, and the
correct placement move afterwards.

This removes a lot of code from drivers, at the expense of
adding some midlayering. I've some further ideas on how to turn
it inside out, but I think this is a good solution to the call
stack problems.

v2: separate out the driver patches, add WARN for getting
MULTHOP in paths we shouldn't (Daniel)
v3: use memset (Christian)

Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: default avatarhristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201109005432.861936-2-airlied@gmail.com
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