Messages in this thread | | | From | Brian Starkey <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] staging: android: ion: Allocate from heap ID directly without mask | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:26:57 +0000 |
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:01:59AM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:51 AM Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Hi John, > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:38:29AM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Some thoughts, as this ABI break has the potential to be pretty painful. > > > > > > 1) Unfortunately, this ABI is exposed *through* libion via > > > ion_alloc/ion_alloc_fd out to gralloc implementations. Which means it > > > will have a wider impact to vendor userland code. > > > > I figured libion could fairly easily loop through all the set bits in > > heap_mask and call the ioctl for each until it succeeds. That > > preserves the old behaviour from the libion clients' perspective. > > Potentially, though that implicitly still caps the heaps to 32. So > I'm not sure what the net benefit would be. >
It's purely a transitionary compatibility measure. Users of the old API inherit the old limitation - they shouldn't care about that.
Alongside it, we'd want to add new function(s) exposing whatever the new API is.
Cheers, -Brian
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