Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Fix the offset issue for the stolen GEM objects

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:58:35AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:45:21AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:00:17AM +0530, akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Akash Goel <akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > The 'offset' field of the 'scatterlist' structure was wrongly
> > > programmed with the offset value from the base of stolen area,
> > > whereas this field indicates the offset from where the interested
> > > data starts within the PAGE pointed to by the 'page-link' field.
> > > As a result when a new GEM object allocated from the stolen
> > > area is mapped to GTT, it could lead to an overwrite of GTT entries
> > > as the page count calculation will go wrong, refer the function
> > > 'sg_page_count'.
> > 
> > This statement is incorrect since my use of sg here predates
> > sg_page_iter.
> > 
> > The stolen sg has no page_link, the meaning of offset/length here are
> > relative to the base of the stolen area.
> > 
> > However, if you wish to rephrase the above...
> 
> Actually we add offset both to sg->offset and adjust the dma_bus_addr
> since this has been introduced in
> 
> commit 0104fdbb84d7adb0e377ed05bf75eba97b007544
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Nov 15 11:32:26 2012 +0000
> 
>     drm/i915: Introduce i915_gem_object_create_stolen()
> 
> But only Imre's conversion to the sg_page_iter started to pay any
> attention to sg->offset in
> 
> commit 6e995e231a90ce7c5ce2a9eae23c8e22f4388db1
> Author: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Feb 18 19:28:04 2013 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: use for_each_sg_page for setting up the gtt ptes
> 
> So with a bit of commit message rewording and these references and cc:
> stable this looks good.

And

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69104
Tested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Maybe a reviewed-by when I see a good comment/changelog.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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