linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] misc: fastrpc: Define a new initmem size for user PD

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Message-ID: <2024072234-slug-payer-2dec@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:58:10 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Ekansh Gupta <quic_ekangupt@...cinc.com>
Cc: srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	quic_bkumar@...cinc.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	quic_chennak@...cinc.com, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	arnd@...db.de, stable <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] misc: fastrpc: Define a new initmem size for user
 PD

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:24:36AM +0530, Ekansh Gupta wrote:
> For user PD initialization, initmem is allocated and sent to DSP for
> initial memory requirements like shell loading. The size of this memory
> is decided based on the shell size that is passed by the user space.
> With the current implementation, a minimum of 2MB is always allocated
> for initmem even if the size passed by user is less than that. For this
> a MACRO is being used which is intended for shell size bound check.
> This minimum size of 2MB is not recommended as the PD will have very
> less memory for heap and will have to request HLOS again for memory.
> Define a new macro for initmem minimum length of 3MB.
> 
> Fixes: d73f71c7c6ee ("misc: fastrpc: Add support for create remote init process")
> Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ekansh Gupta <quic_ekangupt@...cinc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> index a7a2bcedb37e..a3a5b745936e 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #define FASTRPC_DSP_UTILITIES_HANDLE	2
>  #define FASTRPC_CTXID_MASK (0xFF0)
>  #define INIT_FILELEN_MAX (2 * 1024 * 1024)
> +#define FASTRPC_INITLEN_MIN (3 * 1024 * 1024)

Meta-comment, for a future change, why not tabs to line things up?

>  #define INIT_FILE_NAMELEN_MAX (128)
>  #define FASTRPC_DEVICE_NAME	"fastrpc"
>  
> @@ -1410,7 +1411,7 @@ static int fastrpc_init_create_process(struct fastrpc_user *fl,
>  			goto err;
>  	}
>  
> -	memlen = ALIGN(max(INIT_FILELEN_MAX, (int)init.filelen * 4),
> +	memlen = ALIGN(max(FASTRPC_INITLEN_MIN, (int)init.filelen * 4),

You are aligning it this way, but still checking the file size for
INIT_FILELEN_MAX, so that's not really going to change anything here.

How was this tested?

thanks,

greg k-h