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    Merge branch 'vmwgfx-coherent' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-next · 0a6cad5d
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    Graphics APIs like OpenGL 4.4 and Vulkan require the graphics driver
    to provide coherent graphics memory, meaning that the GPU sees any
    content written to the coherent memory on the next GPU operation that
    touches that memory, and the CPU sees any content written by the GPU
    to that memory immediately after any fence object trailing the GPU
    operation is signaled.
    
    Paravirtual drivers that otherwise require explicit synchronization
    needs to do this by hooking up dirty tracking to pagefault handlers
    and buffer object validation.
    
    Provide mm helpers needed for this and that also allow for huge pmd-
    and pud entries (patch 1-3), and the associated vmwgfx code (patch 4-7).
    
    The code has been tested and exercised by a tailored version of mesa
    where we disable all explicit synchronization and assume graphics memory
    is coherent. The performance loss varies of course; a typical number is
    around 5%.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
    From: Thomas Hellstrom <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191113131639.4653-1-thomas_os@shipmail.org
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