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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2017-02-27 12:11:43 -0800
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2017-02-28 12:51:49 -0800
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drm/vc4: Extend and edit documentation for output from the RST
I had written most of my comments as if I was describing the individual code files the way I used to for doxygen, while for RST we want to describe things in a more chapter/section way where there's no obvious relation to .c files. Additionally, several of the files had stub descriptions that I've taken this opportunity to extend. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170227201144.10970-4-eric@anholt.net
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c
index 5dba13dd1e9b..0b2df5c6efb4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c
@@ -24,16 +24,21 @@
/**
* DOC: Shader validator for VC4.
*
- * The VC4 has no IOMMU between it and system memory, so a user with
- * access to execute shaders could escalate privilege by overwriting
- * system memory (using the VPM write address register in the
- * general-purpose DMA mode) or reading system memory it shouldn't
- * (reading it as a texture, or uniform data, or vertex data).
+ * Since the VC4 has no IOMMU between it and system memory, a user
+ * with access to execute shaders could escalate privilege by
+ * overwriting system memory (using the VPM write address register in
+ * the general-purpose DMA mode) or reading system memory it shouldn't
+ * (reading it as a texture, uniform data, or direct-addressed TMU
+ * lookup).
*
- * This walks over a shader BO, ensuring that its accesses are
- * appropriately bounded, and recording how many texture accesses are
- * made and where so that we can do relocations for them in the
+ * The shader validator walks over a shader's BO, ensuring that its
+ * accesses are appropriately bounded, and recording where texture
+ * accesses are made so that we can do relocations for them in the
* uniform stream.
+ *
+ * Shader BO are immutable for their lifetimes (enforced by not
+ * allowing mmaps, GEM prime export, or rendering to from a CL), so
+ * this validation is only performed at BO creation time.
*/
#include "vc4_drv.h"