Re: [v4,1/3] drm/prime: use dma length macro when mapping sg

[Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>]

Hi Christian,

On 2020-03-27 09:11, Christian König wrote:
> Am 27.03.20 um 08:54 schrieb Marek Szyprowski:
>> On 2020-03-25 10:07, Shane Francis wrote:
>>> As dma_map_sg can reorganize scatter-gather lists in a
>>> way that can cause some later segments to be empty we should
>>> always use the sg_dma_len macro to fetch the actual length.
>>>
>>> This could now be 0 and not need to be mapped to a page or
>>> address array
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shane Francis <bigbeeshane@gmail.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
>> This patch landed in linux-next 20200326 and it causes a kernel panic on
>> various Exynos SoC based boards.
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 2 +-
>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>> index 86d9b0e45c8c..1de2cde2277c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>> @@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ int drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays(struct 
>>> sg_table *sgt, struct page **pages,
>>>           index = 0;
>>>        for_each_sg(sgt->sgl, sg, sgt->nents, count) {
>>> -        len = sg->length;
>>> +        len = sg_dma_len(sg);
>>>            page = sg_page(sg);
>>>            addr = sg_dma_address(sg);
>> Sorry, but this code is wrong :(
>
> Well it is at least better than before because it makes most drivers 
> work correctly again.

Well, I'm not sure that a half-broken fix should be considered as a fix ;)

Anyway, I just got the comment from Shane, that my patch is fixing the 
issues with amdgpu and radeon, while still working fine for exynos, so 
it is indeed a proper fix.

> See we only fill the pages array because some drivers (like Exynos) 
> are still buggy and require this.

Exynos driver use this pages array internally.

>
> Accessing the pages of an DMA-buf imported sg_table is illegal and 
> should be fixed in the drivers.

True, but in meantime we should avoid breaking stuff which worked fine 
for ages.

>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> I will send a patch in a few minutes with the above fixed code.
>
> That is certainly a good idea for now, but could we also put on 
> somebodies todo list an item to fix Exynos?

Yes, I can take a look into removing the use of the internal pages 
array. It is used mainly for implementing vmap for fbdev emulation, but 
this can be handled in a different way.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland