From: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@collabora.com>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Morgan <macromorgan@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/panfrost: Use u64 for size in lock_region
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:11:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSQO7exgqnk0ZLJT@maud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71392001-a5a9-fee2-79a5-91df55ba3081@arm.com>
> > Mali virtual addresses are 48-bit. Use a u64 instead of size_t to ensure
> > we can express the "lock everything" condition as ~0ULL without relying
> > on platform-specific behaviour.
>
> 'platform-specific behaviour' makes it sound like this is something to
> do with a particular board. This is 32bit/64bit - it's going to be
> broken on 32bit: large lock regions are not going to work.
Oh, my. I used the term as a weasel word since the spec is loose on how
big a size_t actually is. But if this is causing actual breakage on
armv7 we're in trouble. I'll add a Cc stable tag on v2, unless the Fixes
implies that?
Thanks for pointing this out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-23 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-20 21:31 [PATCH 0/3] drm/panfrost: Bug fixes for lock_region Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-20 21:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm/panfrost: Simplify lock_region calculation Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-23 9:40 ` Steven Price
2021-08-23 21:09 ` Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-23 21:54 ` Steven Price
2021-08-20 21:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/panfrost: Use u64 for size in lock_region Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-23 9:40 ` Steven Price
2021-08-23 21:11 ` Alyssa Rosenzweig [this message]
2021-08-23 21:57 ` Steven Price
2021-08-20 21:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/panfrost: Clamp lock region to Bifrost minimum Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-23 9:40 ` Steven Price
2021-08-23 21:13 ` Alyssa Rosenzweig
2021-08-23 22:02 ` Steven Price
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