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On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Dennis Schridde <devurandom@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> I see sandbox violations similar to "ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/dri/ |
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> renderD128" pop up for more and more packages, probably since OpenCL becomes |
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> used more widely. Hence I would like to ask: Could we in Gentoo treat GPUs |
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> just like CPUs and allow any process to access render nodes (i.e. the GPUs |
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> compute capabilities via the specific interface the Linux kernel's DRM offers |
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> for that purpose) without sandbox restrictions? |
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> --Dennis |
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> See-Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/654216 |
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This seems like a bad idea. With CPUs we've had decades to work out |
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how to isolate processes and prevent them from taking down the system. |
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GPUs are not there yet. It's simple to trigger an unrecoverable GPU |
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hang and not much harder to turn it into a full system lock up. |
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This is not safe. |
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