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  3. 03 Oct, 2018 1 commit
    • Neil Armstrong's avatar
      drm/fb_helper: Allow leaking fbdev smem_start · 4be9bd10
      Neil Armstrong authored
      Since "drm/fb: Stop leaking physical address", the default behaviour of
      the DRM fbdev emulation is to set the smem_base to 0 and pass the new
      FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START flag.
      
      The main reason is to avoid leaking physical addresse to user-space, and
      it follows a general move over the kernel code to avoid user-space to
      manipulate physical addresses and then use some other mechanisms like
      dma-buf to transfer physical buffer handles over multiple subsystems.
      
      But, a lot of devices depends on closed sources binaries to enable
      OpenGL hardware acceleration that uses this smem_start value to
      pass physical addresses to out-of-tree modules in order to render
      into these physical adresses. These should use dma-buf buffers allocated
      from the DRM display device instead and stop relying on fbdev overallocation
      to gather DMA memory (some HW vendors delivers GBM and Wayland capable
      binaries, but older unsupported devices won't have these new binaries
      and are doomed until an Open Source solution like Lima finalizes).
      
      Since these devices heavily depends on this kind of software and because
      the smem_start population was available for years, it's a breakage to
      stop leaking smem_start without any alternative solutions.
      
      This patch adds a Kconfig depending on the EXPERT config and an unsafe
      kernel module parameter tainting the kernel when enabled.
      
      A clear comment and Kconfig help text was added to clarify why and when
      this patch should be reverted, but in the meantime it's a necessary
      feature to keep.
      
      Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
      Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
      Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
      Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
      Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
      Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
      Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
      Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
      Acked-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
      Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1538136355-15383-1-git-send-email-narmstrong@baylibre.com
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  4. 02 Oct, 2018 14 commits