On 23 August 2021 22:11:09 BST, Alyssa Rosenzweig alyssa@collabora.com wrote:
Mali virtual addresses are 48-bit. Use a u64 instead of size_t to ensure we can express the "lock everything" condition as ~0ULL without relying on platform-specific behaviour.
'platform-specific behaviour' makes it sound like this is something to do with a particular board. This is 32bit/64bit - it's going to be broken on 32bit: large lock regions are not going to work.
Oh, my. I used the term as a weasel word since the spec is loose on how big a size_t actually is. But if this is causing actual breakage on armv7 we're in trouble. I'll add a Cc stable tag on v2, unless the Fixes implies that?
The usual practice is to put CC: stable in the commit message or the fixes tag (no need to actually CC the stable email address). So just Fixes: should work
Thanks for pointing this out.
It's not actually quite so bad as it could be as >4GB regions are unlikely (especially on 32bit), but the GPU does of course support such a thing.
Thanks, Steve