From: Ben Widawsky Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 00:00:08 +0000 (-0700) Subject: drm/i915: Improve VMA comments X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b02e798ffec99b51f2fe931ceb61ca0d22d2a70;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git drm/i915: Improve VMA comments Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h index 290c12dd6e6b..4f93467fdfdd 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h @@ -545,7 +545,12 @@ struct i915_hw_ppgtt { int (*enable)(struct drm_device *dev); }; -/* To make things as simple as possible (ie. no refcounting), a VMA's lifetime +/** + * A VMA represents a GEM BO that is bound into an address space. Therefore, a + * VMA's presence cannot be guaranteed before binding, or after unbinding the + * object into/from the address space. + * + * To make things as simple as possible (ie. no refcounting), a VMA's lifetime * will always be <= an objects lifetime. So object refcounting should cover us. */ struct i915_vma {