Re: [PATCH v6 00/25] drm/dumb-buffers: Fix and improve buffer-size calculation

[Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>]

FYI, I significant number of these patches got a review already. I 
intent to merge these and then send out the others for each driver 
individually.

Am 21.08.25 um 10:17 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> Dumb-buffer pitch and size is specified by width, height, bits-per-pixel
> plus various hardware-specific alignments. The calculation of these
> values is inconsistent and duplicated among drivers. The results for
> formats with bpp < 8 are sometimes incorrect.
>
> This series fixes this for most drivers. Default scanline pitch and
> buffer size are now calculated with the existing 4CC helpers. There is
> a new helper drm_mode_size_dumb() that calculates scanline pitch and
> buffer size according to driver requirements.
>
> The series fixes the common GEM implementations for DMA, SHMEM and
> VRAM. It further changes most implementations of dumb_create to use
> the new helper. A small number of drivers has more complicated
> calculations and will be updated by a later patches.
>
> v6:
> - extend TODO item (Tomi)
> - fix typos in documentation (Tomi)
> v5:
> - use check_mul_overflow() for overflow test (Tomi)
> - imx: fix intermediate code (Tomi)
> - rz-du: include dumb-buffers header
> v4:
> - improve UAPI documentation
> - document bpp special cases
> - use drm_warn_once()
> - add TODO lists
> - armada: fix pitch alignment
> v3:
> - document UAPI semantics
> - fall back to bpp-based allocation for unknown color modes
> - cleanups
> v2:
> - rewrite series
> - convert many individual drivers besides the shared GEM helpers
>
> Thomas Zimmermann (25):
>    drm/dumb-buffers: Sanitize output on errors
>    drm/dumb-buffers: Provide helper to set pitch and size
>    drm/gem-dma: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/gem-shmem: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/gem-vram: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/armada: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/exynos: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/gma500: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/hibmc: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/imx/ipuv3: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/loongson: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/mediatek: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/msm: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/nouveau: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/omapdrm: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/qxl: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/renesas/rcar-du: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with
>      drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/renesas/rz-du: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/rockchip: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/tegra: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/virtio: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/vmwgfx: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/xe: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/xen: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>    drm/xlnx: Compute dumb-buffer sizes with drm_mode_size_dumb()
>
>   Documentation/gpu/todo.rst                    |  37 ++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_gem.c           |  16 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c            | 170 ++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c          |   7 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c        |  16 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.c         |  89 +++------
>   drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_gem.c       |   8 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/gem.c                  |  21 +--
>   .../gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_drm_drv.c   |  25 ++-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-drm-core.c      |  29 ++-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_gem.c           |  29 +--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_gem.c            |  13 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c                 |  27 ++-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c     |   7 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c            |  15 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_dumb.c                |  17 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_kms.c |   7 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rz-du/rzg2l_du_kms.c  |   8 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c   |  12 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c                   |   8 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_gem.c          |  11 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c       |  21 +--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c                    |   8 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c           |   7 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/xlnx/zynqmp_kms.c             |   7 +-
>   include/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.h                |  14 ++
>   include/drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h             |   6 -
>   include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h                   |  50 +++++-
>   28 files changed, 457 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 include/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.h
>

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