Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] drm/fourcc: Add modifier definitions for describing Amlogic Video Framebuffer Compression

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:23:11AM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Thursday, July 2, 2020 9:47 AM, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Finally is also adds the Scatter Memory layout, meaning the header contains IOMMU
> > references to the compressed frames content to optimize memory access
> > and layout.
> >
> > In this mode, only the header memory address is needed, thus the content
> > memory organization is tied to the current producer execution and cannot
> > be saved/dumped neither transferrable between Amlogic SoCs supporting this
> > modifier.
> 
> Still not sure how to handle this one, since this breaks fundamental
> assumptions about modifiers.

I wonder whether we should require special allocations for these, and then
just outright reject mmap on these buffers. mmap on dma-buf isn't a
required feature.

That would make sure that userspace cannot look at them.

Also I'm kinda suspecting that there's not unlimited amounts of this magic
invisible storage available anyway.
-Daniel
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