NAK: vmwgfx hardware enablement patch

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 03/10/2014 11:44 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>> On 03/04/2014 11:58 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2014 12:57 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2014 08:53 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>>> On 03/04/2014 08:00 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This squashed patch series implements "guest backed surfaces" in the
>>>>>> VMware vmwgfx kernel driver. It is used along with changes in the
>>>>>> mesa source tree (which you guys have already have to my knowledge
>>>>>> picked up since it was in the 10.1 mesa release). We would like
>>>>>> to have this included in the trusty release, please.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The patch is backported from the 3.14 kernel and is rather large,
>>>>>> but mostly only touches the vmwgfx driver and some minor touches
>>>>>> on the generic ttm code. You can get it from here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> git://people.freedesktop.org/~wallbraker/linux for-unbuntu-vmwgfx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Comments please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers, Jakob.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: I'm sorry I don't know which tags to put in the subject,
>>>>>>      so I just left it as it
>>>>>>
>>>>> I prefer the individual commits, each of which must be clearly
>>>>> marked as
>>>>> a clean cherry-pick or a backport.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've reviewed the list of commits that went into the squash. With the
>>>>> exception of 05efb1abecce6e36457ae1a7be29ded7ac52292a "drm/ttm: ttm
>>>>> object security fixes for render nodes", all of the other commits only
>>>>> touch drm/vmwgfx. I'll assume y'all know what you're doing there.
>>>>>
>>>>> rtg
>>>> How about this:
>>>>
>>>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-trusty.git vmwgfx
>>>>
>>>> rtg
>>> Never mind. I just merged these patches. They'll show up in linux
>>> 3.13.0-16.36
>>>
>>> rtg
>> Tim,
>>  
>> Thanks for this. It occured to me that there is a fix for the TTM commit
>> in the squash patch. It's upstream  c66f85433, and I've attached it to
>> this email. I can include it in the squash and resend if you prefer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
>> From c66f854338253e603a4fb6817069ee23eacf0ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:49:45 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] drm/ttm: Fix TTM object open regression
>>
>> Commit drm/ttm: ttm object security fixes for render nodes introduced a
>> regression where, if a TTM object was opened multiple times from the same
>> open file, the caller would spin uninterruptibly in the kernel.
>>
>> Fix this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
> He pulled in the unsquashed patches so updating the squash will not
> help.  I have cherry-picked this into our tree as well.
>
> Has anyone been able to test this new combination at all?  (Prior to
> this fix.)
>
> -apw

Is it available in

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-trusty.git vmwgfx ?

Thomas