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authorGary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org>2016-01-20 15:36:59 -0600
committerGary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org>2016-01-20 15:36:59 -0600
commit370e05d463d66eaada3b4bb9266f019563920eb0 (patch)
tree348834a36436338eea1e9f17f1823cae213f92fc /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
parentf93328edc6d139b9b1b5ed6944f7b80b8699cdf7 (diff)
parent906d9eadd3b6698fa6ceb9bcdf41da6aa56d0a24 (diff)
Merge tag 'lsk-v4.1-15.12-rt' of http://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable into linux-linaro-lng-v4.1-rtlinux-lng-preempt-rt-4.1.14-2016.03linux-lng-preempt-rt-4.1.14-2016.02linux-lng-preempt-rt-4.1.14-2016.01linux-linaro-lng-v4.1-rt
LSK RT 15.12 v4.1 Conflicts: linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf linaro/configs/preempt-rt.conf linaro/configs/vexpress64.conf
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
index 1719078c763a..ce175d05260b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
@@ -776,7 +776,10 @@ static const struct drm_i915_gem_object_ops i915_gem_userptr_ops = {
* Also note, that the object created here is not currently a "first class"
* object, in that several ioctls are banned. These are the CPU access
* ioctls: mmap(), pwrite and pread. In practice, you are expected to use
- * direct access via your pointer rather than use those ioctls.
+ * direct access via your pointer rather than use those ioctls. Another
+ * restriction is that we do not allow userptr surfaces to be pinned to the
+ * hardware and so we reject any attempt to create a framebuffer out of a
+ * userptr.
*
* If you think this is a good interface to use to pass GPU memory between
* drivers, please use dma-buf instead. In fact, wherever possible use