linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/ingenic: Use the highest possible DMA burst size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <IN0GER.UCST485AI2YD1@crapouillou.net>
Date:   Sun, 03 Jul 2022 12:45:18 +0100
From:   Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
To:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, list@...ndingux.net,
        Christophe Branchereau <cbranchereau@...il.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/ingenic: Use the highest possible DMA burst size

Hi Sam,

Le dim., juil. 3 2022 at 08:43:37 +0200, Sam Ravnborg 
<sam@...nborg.org> a écrit :
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 12:07:27AM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>  Until now, when running at the maximum resolution of 1280x720 at 
>> 32bpp
>>  on the JZ4770 SoC the output was garbled, the X/Y position of the
>>  top-left corner of the framebuffer warping to a random position with
>>  the whole image being offset accordingly, every time a new frame was
>>  being submitted.
>> 
>>  This problem can be eliminated by using a bigger burst size for the 
>> DMA.
> 
> Are there any alignment constraints of the framebuffer that depends on
> the burst size? I am hit by this with some atmel IP - which is why I
> ask.

I would think that the framebuffer needs to be aligned with the burst 
size, indeed. Here, our buffers are always page-aligned so that's not a 
problem.

> Patch looks good and is a-b.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-Paul

>> 
>>  Set in each soc_info structure the maximum burst size supported by 
>> the
>>  corresponding SoC, and use it in the driver.
>> 
>>  Set the new value using regmap_update_bits() instead of
>>  regmap_set_bits(), since we do want to override the old value of the
>>  burst size. (Note that regmap_set_bits() wasn't really valid before 
>> for
>>  the same reason, but it never seemed to be a problem).
>> 
>>  Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
>>  Fixes: 90b86fcc47b4 ("DRM: Add KMS driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx 
>> SoCs")
>>  Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>