Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/gem-vram: revert the 8-byte alignment constraint

From: Thomas Zimmermann
Date: Tue Dec 02 2025 - 12:09:57 EST


Hi

Am 26.11.25 um 15:44 schrieb Ludovic Desroches:
Using drm_mode_size_dumb() to compute the size of dumb buffers introduced
an 8-byte alignment constraint on the pitch that wasn’t present before.
Let’s remove this constraint, which isn’t necessarily required and may
cause buffers to be allocated larger than needed.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c
index f40f6e167f126681201b13d60be9c508f25d481f..3ab91965ec6f8fa275b9556079dfb335a02664bb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ int drm_gem_vram_driver_dumb_create(struct drm_file *file,
if (WARN_ONCE(!dev->vram_mm, "VRAM MM not initialized"))
return -EINVAL;
- ret = drm_mode_size_dumb(dev, args, SZ_8, 0);
+ ret = drm_mode_size_dumb(dev, args, 0, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;

This code has not been merged yet AFAICT. I'll add the fix to the patch's next update.

Best regards
Thomas



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