Restarting the thread with a different subject line: I haven't given up on this yet. I am still seeing the following failure: Additional debug messages I added: [ 15.287403] exynos_drm_gem_create_ioctl() 1 [ 15.287419] exynos_drm_gem_create() flags 1 [ 15.311511] [drm:exynos_drm_framebuffer_init] *ERROR* Non-contiguous GEM memory is not supported. Additional debug message I added: [ 15.318981] [drm:exynos_user_fb_create] *ERROR* failed to initialize framebuffer This is what happens: 1. exynos_drm_gem_create_ioctl() gets called with EXYNOS_BO_NONCONTIG request 2. exynos_drm_gem_create(0 goes ahead and creates the GEM buffers 3. exynos_user_fb_create() tries to associate GEM to fb and fails during check_fb_gem_memory_type() At this point, there is no recovery and lightdm fails xf86-video-armsoc/src/drmmode_exynos/drmmode_exynos.c assumes contiguous allocations are not supported in some exynos drm versions: The following commit introduced this change: https://git.linaro.org/arm/xorg/driver/xf86-video-armsoc.git/commitdiff/3be1f6273441fe95dd442f44064387322e16b7e9 excerpts from the diff:- if (create_gem->buf_type == ARMSOC_BO_SCANOUT) - create_exynos.flags = EXYNOS_BO_CONTIG; - else - create_exynos.flags = EXYNOS_BO_NONCONTIG; + + /* Contiguous allocations are not supported in some exynos drm versions. + * When they are supported all allocations are effectively contiguous + * anyway, so for simplicity we always request non contiguous buffers. + */ + create_exynos.flags = EXYNOS_BO_NONCONTIG; There might have been logic on exynos_drm that forced Contig when it coudn't support NONCONTIG. At least, that is what this comment suggests. This assumption doesn't appear to be a good one and not sure if this change was made to fix a bug. After the IOMMU support, this assumption is no longer true. Hence, with IOMMU support, latest kernels have a mismatch with the installed xf86-video-armsoc This is what I am running into. This leads to the following question: 1. How do we ensure exynos_drm kernel changes don't break user-space specifically xf86-video-armsoc 2. This seems to have gone undetected for a while. I see a change in exynos_drm_gem_dumb_create() that is probably addressing this type of breakage. Commit 122beea84bb90236b1ae545f08267af58591c21b adds handling for IOMMU NONCONTIG case. Anyway, I am interested in getting the exynos_drm kernel side code and xf86-video-armsoc in sync to resolve the issue. Could you recommend a going forward plan? I can submit a patch to xf86-video-armsoc. I am also looking ahead to see if we can avoid such breaks in the future by keeping kernel and xf86-video-armsoc in sync. thanks, -- Shuah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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