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Memory management for graphics processors

Memory management for graphics processors

Posted Nov 9, 2007 8:59 UTC (Fri) by airlied (subscriber, #9104)
In reply to: Memory management for graphics processors by jwb
Parent article: Memory management for graphics processors

Later GPUs such as Intel 965 and up, and ATI r500, and Nvidia g80, have page table support
that can be leverage at a hw level...

However we can mostly protect things using the kernel with the TTM layer described above. It
won't let you access video ram directly everything must go through a buffer object which has
basic sharing permissions.

In the future we hope to implement better permission models and maybe even some sort of
SELinux integration.


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