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The history of i915_vma_close() is confusing, as is its use. As the lifetime of the i915_vma is currently bounded by the object it is attached to, we needed a means of identify when a vma was no longer in use by userspace (via the user's fd). This is further complicated by that only ppgtt vma should be closed at the user's behest, as the ggtt were always shared. Now that we attach the vma to a lut on the user's context, the open count does indicate how many unique and open context/vm are referencing this vma from the user. As such, we can and should just use the open_count to track when the vma is still in use by userspace. It's a poor man's replacement for reference counting. Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/1193 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200422190558.30509-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.