[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Kill DRI1 cliprects

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Oct 6 05:43:52 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 01:21:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:39:55AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Passing cliprects into the kernel for it to re-execute the batch buffer
> > with different CMD_DRAWRECT died out long ago. As DRI1 support has been
> > removed from the kernel, we can now simply reject any execbuf trying to
> > use this "feature".
> > 
> > To keep Daniel happy with the prospect of being able to reuse these
> > fields in the next decade, continue to ensure that current userspace is
> > not passing garbage in through the dead fields.
> > 
> > v2: Fix the cliprects_ptr check
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> igt subtest seems to be missing to ensure we enforce this. Yay otherwise!

Looking at gem_exec_params/cliprects-invalid, presumably all you want to
do is to remove the igt_require(). To be more precise you would need to
a flag to tell when the wicked witch is dead and you could expect the
execbuf to fail with any cliprect garbage.
-Chris
> -Da 

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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