I've spent hours chasing a memory corruption that was caused by
insertion of an extra field field before ->base. Let's document the
fact that base has to be the first field in panfrost_gem_object.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
* Use the proper prefix in the subject line
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
index b3517ff9630c..d480261fc177 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
struct panfrost_mmu;
struct panfrost_gem_object {
+ /*
+ * Must be the first element because we're using some of the
+ * drm_gem_shmem helpers.
+ */
struct drm_gem_shmem_object base;
struct sg_table *sgts;
--
2.23.0
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