drm/i915: Treat stolen memory as DMA addresses
The conversion of stolen to use phys_addr_t (from essentially u32) sparked an interesting discussion. We treat stolen memory as only accessible from the GPU (the DMA device) - an attempt to use it from the CPU will generate a MCE on gen6 onwards, although it is in theory a physical address that can be dereferenced from the CPU as demonstrated by earlier generations. As such, using phys_addr_t has the wrong connotations and as we pass the address into the DMA device via dma_addr_t (through the scatterlists used to program the GTT entries), we should treat it as dma_addr_t throughout. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170127165531.28135-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukReviewed-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
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