Re: [PATCH] drm/exynos/fbdev: set smem_len for fbdev

[Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> wrote:
>> Commit [0] stopped setting fix.smem_start and fix.smem_len when creating
>> the fbdev.
>>
>> [0] 2f1eab8d8ab59e799f7d51d62410b398607a7bc3
>>   drm/exynos/fbdev: don't set fix.smem/mmio_{start,len}
>>
>> However, smem_len is used by some userland applications to calculate the
>> size for mmap.  In particular, it is used by xf86-video-fbdev:
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c?id=xorg-server-1.15.99.903#n571
>>
>> So, let's restore setting the smem_len to unbreak things for these users.
>>
>> Note: we are still leaving smem_start set to 0.
>
> Doesn't this cause a system crash when userspace (e.g. fbtest) writes into
> the mmap()ed /dev/fb*, as the wrong MMIO region is mapped?

Do you see a crash during testing, or is your question hypothetical?

I don't think there will be one.  exynos's fbev defines its own
fb_ops.fb_mmap, which uses dma_mmap_attrs() to mmap the fb's gem
buffer, which was allocated by dma_alloc_attrs().  This bypasses the
code in drivers/video/fbmem.c:fb_mmap() that references
fix.smem_start.

But, perhaps I am missing something?

-Dan

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