Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH] drm/xen-front: Fix mmap attributes for display buffers

[Julien Grall]

Hi Oleksandr,

On 1/29/19 3:04 PM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> When GEM backing storage is allocated those are normal pages,
> so there is no point using pgprot_writecombine while mmaping.
> This fixes mismatch of buffer pages' memory attributes between
> the frontend and backend which may cause screen artifacts.
>
> Fixes: c575b7eeb89f ("drm/xen-front: Add support for Xen PV display frontend")
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c
> index d303a2e17f5e..9d5c03d7668d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c
> @@ -235,8 +235,7 @@ static int gem_mmap_obj(struct xen_gem_object *xen_obj,
>   	vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_PFNMAP;
>   	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
>   	vma->vm_pgoff = 0;
> -	vma->vm_page_prot =
> -			pgprot_writecombine(vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags));
> +	vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);

The patch looks good to me. It would be worth expanding the comment a 
bit before to explain that we overwrite vm_page_prot to use cacheable 
attribute as required by the Xen ABI.

With the comment updated:

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall