Re: [PATCH 0/7] Consider G2D hardware restrictions.

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, YoungJun Cho <yj44.cho@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mar 19, 2013 9:55 AM, "Rob Clark" <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:00 PM, YoungJun Cho <yj44.cho@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mar 19, 2013 3:01 AM, "Rob Clark" <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Btw, what is the hw response to invalid input (ie. bottom>top, invalid
>> >> size, etc)?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Unfortunately the IOMMU page fault is happened. So we need some codes
>> > for
>> > protecting kernel.
>>
>> hmm, a page fault is not necessarily a problem.. do you have some way
>> to know which userspace client the the fault is associated with (I
>> assume so, unless you have some way to have multiple contexts active
>> at one time), and some sane way to recover?
>>
>
> When IOMMU page fault is occured, kernel oops is generated now because it is
> unrecoverable.

oh, ouch.. maybe there is someway to reset the 2d core, and move on?
If no, then I guess cmdstream checking is required.  If there is some
way to recover, that seems like a generally good thing to implement..

BR,
-R


>> I only ask this because, for an xorg/exa perspective, you can have a
>> large # of blits that effect a small # of pixels, so minimizing
>> per-blit overhead can be important for performance.  (otoh, if you
>> already have to do some cmdstream checking in the kernel to ensure
>> security, maybe it doesn't add much overhead for a few extra checks.
>> Depends on whether it can all be done in one pass and without
>> additional load (LDR) instructions from the cmdstream buffer (which is
>> presumably not in a cached buffer)
>>
>
> Right, performance is important.
> We already have checked all command lists for buffer addresses security and
> it is done in one pass.
> And this patch gathers additional data for HW restriction during previous
> checking routine.
>
> Thank you
> Best regards YJ
>
>> BR,
>> -R
>>
>> > Thank you~
>> > Best regards YJ
>> >
>> >> Ie. if it will just ignore the blit or raise an error irq which can be
>> >> handled sanely, it could be ok to avoid the overhead of the cmdstream
>> >> checking in the kernel.  The kernel part really just needs to ensure
>> >> that userspace can't cause security problems (read/write access to
>> >> non-gfx-buffers, or lock up the system, that sort of thing).  It
>> >> doesn't need to guarantee that the results are sensible.
>> >>
>> >> BR,
>> >> -R
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > This patch set checks the contents of g2d command list from user
>> >> > is valid or not according to G2D hardware restrictions. For now,
>> >> > G2D driver wasn't considered for them properly.
>> >> >
>> >> > For this, this patch set includes relevant code cleaups, fixups
>> >> > and adds a new function to get buffer size to the gem to be
>> >> > accessed by G2D dma.
>> >> >
>> >> > Inki Dae (1):
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Add a new function to get gem buffer size
>> >> >
>> >> > YoungJun Cho (6):
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Fix error routine to getting dma addr.
>> >> >   drm/exynos: clear node object type at gem unmap
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Fix G2D core mulfunctioning issue
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Clean up some G2D codes for readability
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Deal with g2d buffer info more efficiently
>> >> >   drm/exynos: Check g2d cmd list for g2d restrictions
>> >> >
>> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_g2d.c |  381
>> >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_gem.c |   21 ++
>> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_gem.h |    5 +
>> >> >  3 files changed, 349 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > 1.7.4.1
>> >> >
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