![]() On a Thinkpad x61s, I noticed some memory corruption when plugging/unplugging the external VGA connection. The symptoms are that 4 bytes at the beginning of a page get overwritten by zeroes. The address of the corruption varies when rebooting the machine, but stays constant while it's running (so it's possible to repeatedly write some data and then corrupt it again by plugging the cable). Further investigation revealed that the corrupted address is (dev_priv->status_page_dmah->busaddr & 0xffffffff), ie. the beginning of the hardware status page of the i965 graphics card, cut to 32 bits. So it seems that for some memory access, the hardware uses only 32 bit addressing. If the hardware status page is located >4GB, this corrupts unrelated memory. Signed-off-by: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org |
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drm_auth.c | ||
drm_buffer.c | ||
drm_bufs.c | ||
drm_cache.c | ||
drm_context.c | ||
drm_crtc.c | ||
drm_crtc_helper.c | ||
drm_debugfs.c | ||
drm_dma.c | ||
drm_dp_i2c_helper.c | ||
drm_drv.c | ||
drm_edid.c | ||
drm_edid_modes.h | ||
drm_encoder_slave.c | ||
drm_fb_helper.c | ||
drm_fops.c | ||
drm_gem.c | ||
drm_global.c | ||
drm_hashtab.c | ||
drm_info.c | ||
drm_ioc32.c | ||
drm_ioctl.c | ||
drm_irq.c | ||
drm_lock.c | ||
drm_memory.c | ||
drm_mm.c | ||
drm_modes.c | ||
drm_pci.c | ||
drm_platform.c | ||
drm_proc.c | ||
drm_scatter.c | ||
drm_sman.c | ||
drm_stub.c | ||
drm_sysfs.c | ||
drm_trace.h | ||
drm_trace_points.c | ||
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README.drm
************************************************************ * For the very latest on DRI development, please see: * * http://dri.freedesktop.org/ * ************************************************************ The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major ways: 1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via the use of an optimized two-tiered lock. 2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to restricted regions of memory. 3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context switch. 4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module. Documentation on the DRI is available from: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387 http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/ For specific information about kernel-level support, see: The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html