svga: Break uploads of big buffers into smaller pieces.

Fixes crash in Homeworld2 which tries to create a 14MB buffer, because we
now avoid creating GMR buffers larger than 8MB to ensure progress given
we have only a 16MB pool.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/svga/svga_screen_buffer.h b/src/gallium/drivers/svga/svga_screen_buffer.h
index 044fa0a465b..937cf30478d 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/svga/svga_screen_buffer.h
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/svga/svga_screen_buffer.h
@@ -201,6 +201,16 @@ svga_buffer_is_user_buffer( struct pipe_buffer *buffer )
 void
 svga_screen_init_buffer_functions(struct pipe_screen *screen);
 
+
+/**
+ * Get the host surface handle for this buffer.
+ *
+ * This will ensure the host surface is updated, issuing DMAs as needed.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This may insert new commands in the context, so it *must* be called
+ * before reserving command buffer space. And, in order to insert commands
+ * it may need to call svga_context_flush().
+ */
 struct svga_winsys_surface *
 svga_buffer_handle(struct svga_context *svga,
                    struct pipe_buffer *buf);