Re: [BUG] [PATCH] drm/rockchip: use generic fbdev setup

[John Keeping]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Johan Jonker wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/17/22 13:29, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2022, 12:05:16 CEST schrieb John Keeping:
> >> Hi Johan,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:11:32AM +0200, Johan Jonker wrote:
> >>> Your patch contribution causes a kernel panic on MK808 with Rockchip rk3066a SoC.
> >>> Would you like to contribute to fix this issue?
> >>> The assumtion that drm_fbdev_generic_setup() does what rockchip_drm_fbdev_init did is not true!
> >>> A revert makes it work again.
> >>
> 
> >> It looks like there are 3 different ways to end up with -ENOMEM here,
> >> can you track down whether you're hitting one of the cases in
> >> rockchip_gem_prime_vmap() or if it's the iosys_map_is_null case in
> >> drm_gem_vmap()?
> 
> It looks like it comes from rockchip_gem_prime_vmap() second return (2).
> 
> 
> 	if (rk_obj->dma_attrs & DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING) {
> 
> ////////////////
> 
> 		printk("FBDEV rockchip_gem_prime_vmap 2");
> 
> ////////////////
> 		return -ENOMEM;
> 	}

Ah-ha, Heiko was right that this is because the no-iommu path is broken
as a result of switching to the generic fbdev code.

This patch should fix it, but I wonder if Thomas has any ideas about a
better way to handle this since it feels a bit hacky to special-case the
fb_helper inside the GEM code:

-- >8 --
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c
index 614e97aaac80..da8a69953706 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c
@@ -364,9 +364,12 @@ rockchip_gem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file_priv,
 {
 	struct rockchip_gem_object *rk_obj;
 	struct drm_gem_object *obj;
+	bool is_framebuffer;
 	int ret;
 
-	rk_obj = rockchip_gem_create_object(drm, size, false);
+	is_framebuffer = drm->fb_helper && file_priv == drm->fb_helper->client.file;
+
+	rk_obj = rockchip_gem_create_object(drm, size, is_framebuffer);
 	if (IS_ERR(rk_obj))
 		return ERR_CAST(rk_obj);
-- 8< --