Re: [PATCH] drm/fb_cma_helper: Implement fb_mmap callback

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Mar 16 2016 - 11:27:43 EST


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:57:49PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> In the absence of an fb_mmap callback, the fbdev code falls back to a
> naive implementation which relies upon the DMA address being the same
> as the physical address, and the buffer being physically contiguous
> from there. Whilst this often holds for standard CMA allocations via
> the platform's regular DMA ops, if the allocation is provided by an
> IOMMU then such assumptions can fall apart spectacularly.
>
> To resolve this, reroute the fb_mmap call to the appropriate DMA API
> implementation, as per the other cma_helper calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Hi dri-devel,
>
> This is an empirical fix for something I tickled via the newly-added
> ARM HDLCD driver on a Juno platform - I have no idea whatsoever about
> how "proper" it is in terms of the DRM infrastructure, so feel free to
> treat this as a bug report rather than an actual patch if appropriate ;)

I think the best case would be if we could have a generic fbdev helper
that remaps to dumb mmap support. But that's a bit tricky to pull of:
1. from fb_info we can get at the fbdev drm_framebuffer.
2. from a drm_framebuffer we can get at the underlying backing storage
object using fb->funcs->get_handle.
3. With that handle we could go into the dumb mmap support (using als the
vma) and create the mmap.

Except that ->get_handle needs a file_priv, and that just exist for the
fbdev emulation kms client. I guess we could fix that by creating a
minimal fake drm file_priv for the fbdev emulation (and treat it more like
any other kms client), but I think that's way too much work when this
simple patch here gets the job done.

Long story short, assuming this doesn't break other cma-helper using
drivers:

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c
> index bb88e3d..117d7ea 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
> #include <drm/drm_crtc_helper.h>
> #include <drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h>
> #include <drm/drm_fb_cma_helper.h>
> +#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
>
> struct drm_fb_cma {
> @@ -221,6 +222,12 @@ int drm_fb_cma_debugfs_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_fb_cma_debugfs_show);
> #endif
>
> +static int drm_fb_cma_mmap(struct fb_info *info, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + return dma_mmap_writecombine(info->device, vma, info->screen_base,
> + info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len);
> +}
> +
> static struct fb_ops drm_fbdev_cma_ops = {
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> .fb_fillrect = drm_fb_helper_sys_fillrect,
> @@ -231,6 +238,7 @@ static struct fb_ops drm_fbdev_cma_ops = {
> .fb_blank = drm_fb_helper_blank,
> .fb_pan_display = drm_fb_helper_pan_display,
> .fb_setcmap = drm_fb_helper_setcmap,
> + .fb_mmap = drm_fb_cma_mmap,
> };
>
> static int drm_fbdev_cma_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
> --
> 2.7.3.dirty
>
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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