[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Fix command parser to validate multiple register access with the same command.

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:19:47AM +0300, Francisco Jerez wrote:
> Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net> writes:
> 
> > Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:26:22PM +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:18:01PM +0300, Francisco Jerez wrote:
> >>> > Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> writes:
> >>> > 
> >>> > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 05:36:26PM +0800, Zhigang Gong wrote:
> >>> > >> The patchset LGTM and works well with beignet. The 80%+ performance regression issue in darktable also has been fixed
> >>> > >> after this patchset applied and enable the atomic in L3 at beignet side. So,
> >>> > >> 
> >>> > >> Reviewed-by: Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at linux.intel.com>
> >>> > >
> >>> > > All three merged.
> >>> > 
> >>> > Thanks Daniel.
> >>> > 
> >>> > > Aside: Dont we need an increment for the cmd parser version for
> >>> > > userspace to be able to detect this?
> >>> > >
> >>> > Yeah, that would be a good idea, patch attached.
> >>> 
> >>> The old version alloweed userspace to write basically any register, the
> >>> new version allows only the whitelisted registers. I don't see how a
> >>> version number bump would help anyone.
> >>
> >> Oops, totally missed the context of patch 1. Jani I think that one's for
> >> you too ...
> >>
> > IMHO the version bump is still useful for userspace to find out whether
> > it can use plain LRIs to write the L3 atomic chicken bits.  It's true
> > that as Ville said it would have been possible for userspace to write
> > the same bits before this series by building a batch specifically
> > crafted to cheat the command parser, but I don't think we want userspace
> > to rely on a command parser bug (e.g. because we may want to back-port
> > the fix to earlier kernel versions).
> >
> Ping.  I cannot use these registers from userspace until the command
> parser version number is bumped.

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel

> 
> >> Thanks for pointing this out.
> >> -Daniel
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> >> Daniel Vetter
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