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Commit c8847387 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Treat stolen memory as DMA addresses



The conversion of stolen to use phys_addr_t (from essentially u32)
sparked an interesting discussion. We treat stolen memory as only
accessible from the GPU (the DMA device) - an attempt to use it from the
CPU will generate a MCE on gen6 onwards, although it is in theory a
physical address that can be dereferenced from the CPU as demonstrated
by earlier generations. As such, using phys_addr_t has the wrong
connotations and as we pass the address into the DMA device via
dma_addr_t (through the scatterlists used to program the GTT entries),
we should treat it as dma_addr_t throughout.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170127165531.28135-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
parent 4703b047
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