linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] drm/gem-shmem: revert the 8-byte alignment constraint

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Message-ID: <20251126-lcd_pitch_alignment-v1-2-991610a1e369@microchip.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:44:45 +0100
From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
	<mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie
	<airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
CC: <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ludovic Desroches" <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] drm/gem-shmem: revert the 8-byte alignment constraint

Using drm_mode_size_dumb() to compute the size of dumb buffers introduced
an 8-byte alignment constraint on the pitch that wasn’t present before.
Let’s remove this constraint, which isn’t necessarily required and may
cause buffers to be allocated larger than needed.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
index dc94a27710e5f48839a5d2e9e9ea5152ff22e438..93b9cff89080f94e5d6e4663ef642b4c36e93c71 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ int drm_gem_shmem_dumb_create(struct drm_file *file, struct drm_device *dev,
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = drm_mode_size_dumb(dev, args, SZ_8, 0);
+	ret = drm_mode_size_dumb(dev, args, 0, 0);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 

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