On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:57:08AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:17:57AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Ben Widawsky <b...@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:28:24PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:21:10PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > >> > DRM gets very mad when you request an object which occupies a partial
> > >> > page. As a DRM driver, i915 never really wants to anger DRM, and would
> > >> > always just want the rounding done for us.
> > >> >
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <b...@bwidawsk.net>
> > >> > ---
> > >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 ++
> > >> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >> >
> > >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c 
> > >> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > >> > index 024e454..8cd1134 100644
> > >> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > >> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > >> > @@ -4168,6 +4168,8 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object 
> > >> > *i915_gem_alloc_object(struct drm_device *dev,
> > >> >     struct address_space *mapping;
> > >> >     gfp_t mask;
> > >> >
> > >> > +   size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE);
> > >> > +
> > >>
> > >> Nope, if there's some code that doesn't do page-aligend bo allocations it
> > >> needs to be fixed there. If you want throw a WARN_ON and early return in
> > >> here.
> > >> -Daniel
> > >
> > > Why?
> > 
> > Because allocating a non-page aligned gem bo is a bug. All current
> > in-kernel allocations are already aligned. I've thought that we also
> > reject unaligned request from userspace but apparently we help out
> > since forever (i.e. gem was merged). Might be worth a shot to turn
> > that into an -EINVAL if libdrm does the right rounding ...
> 
> We already have an -EINVAL guard on our create ioctl(s).

Only for size == 0, not for non-aligned size, at least afaics (no coffee
yet ...).
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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