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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Call page_address() on page acquired with
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To:     Sumitra Sharma <sumitraartsy@gmail.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
        intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
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Cc:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>, Fabio <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>,
        Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com>,
        Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
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From:   Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
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On 14/06/2023 13:35, Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> Pages allocated with GFP_KERNEL cannot come from Highmem.
> That is why there is no need to call kmap() on them.

Are you sure it is GFP_KERNEL backed and not tmpfs? I am not sure myself 
so let me copy Matt and Thomas if they happen to know off hand.

Regards,

Tvrtko

> Therefore, don't call kmap() on the page coming from
> vma_res->bi.pages using for_each_sgt_page() in
> i915_vma_coredump_create().
> 
> Use a plain page_address() to get the kernel address instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sumitra Sharma <sumitraartsy@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> index f020c0086fbc..6f51cb4fc55c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
> @@ -1164,9 +1164,8 @@ i915_vma_coredump_create(const struct intel_gt *gt,
>   
>   			drm_clflush_pages(&page, 1);
>   
> -			s = kmap(page);
> +			s = page_address(page);
>   			ret = compress_page(compress, s, dst, false);
> -			kunmap(page);
>   
>   			drm_clflush_pages(&page, 1);
>