So in light of the radeon patch to add user ptr, i took a look at intel code and it is time to put an end to this non sense. It violate so many mm assumptions that it just not a doable options.
So Intel code only register a range_start callback that means that any gup or other i915 activities that happens just after this call back returns as no idea what so ever of it might get. It might get the old pages that are about to change or the new pages.
For the use case where the gpu is only reading thing from those buffer this is fine. But the use case where gpu gonna writte to them and then user space expect to be able to access what the gpu wrote through its userspace mapping it will be like any games in a casino. You will never ever win in the end. You are bound to loose. Just no way around that.
So let just stop that non sense. Wake up from our dream and move on.
I am not even talking about how invalidate_page is ignore and how well this will play with page write back.
Cheers, Jérôme The Grand Inquisitor