On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 15/07/2024 à 15:15, Ilia Mirkin a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 7:49 AM Markus Elfring <markus.elfr...@web.de> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> >> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:36:54 +0200
> >>
> >> Single characters should be put into a sequence.
> >> Thus use the corresponding function “seq_putc” for one selected call.
> >>
> >> This issue was transformed by using the Coccinelle software.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr>
> >> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c | 2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c 
> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
> >> index e83db051e851..931b62097366 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
> >> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ nouveau_debugfs_vbios_image(struct seq_file *m, void 
> >> *data)
> >>          int i;
> >>
> >>          for (i = 0; i < drm->vbios.length; i++)
> >> -               seq_printf(m, "%c", drm->vbios.data[i]);
> >> +               seq_putc(m, drm->vbios.data[i]);
> >
> > Is there some reason this whole thing isn't just
> >
> > seq_write(m, drm->vbios.data, drm->vbios.length)
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if my answer is relevant or not here but:
>         for () seq_putc();      ==> will fill 'm' with everything that fits in
> and
>         seq_write()             ==> is all or nothing. So if 'm' is too 
> small, then
> nothing will be appended.
>
> I've not looked at the calling tree, but I would expect 'm' to be able
> to have PAGE_SIZE chars, so most probably 4096.
>
> And having gpu + "vbios.rom", I would expect it to be bigger than 4096.
>
> If I'm correct, then changing for seq_write() would just show... nothing.
>
>
> I don't know if it can happen., but testing should be easy enough to
> figure it out.

The vbios can definitely be much much larger than 4k. But it does
currently work as-is, i.e. you don't just get the first 4k, you get
everything. So I think there's some internal resizing/extension/etc
going on.

But I totally agree -- testing required here. Not sure if the author
has done that.

Cheers,

  -ilia

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