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Subject: Claude review: drm/nouveau/kms/nvd9-: Use contiguous memory for CRC notifier context
Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 09:05:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <review-patch1-20260501215856.840898-1-lyude@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501215856.840898-1-lyude@redhat.com>
Patch Review
**Correctness of the core fix:**
The old code called `nvif_mem_ctor_map()` which internally passes `NULL, 0` for the argv/argc parameters to `nvif_mem_ctor()`:
```c
// nvif/mem.c:31-32 (old path)
int ret = nvif_mem_ctor(mmu, name, mmu->mem, NVIF_MEM_MAPPABLE | type,
0, size, NULL, 0, mem);
```
The new code replaces this with a direct `nvif_mem_ctor()` call that passes a `gf100_mem_v0` struct with `.contig = true`:
```c
ret = nvif_mem_ctor(mmu, "kmsCrcNtfy", mmu->mem, NVIF_MEM_VRAM | NVIF_MEM_MAPPABLE, 0, len,
&(struct gf100_mem_v0) {
.contig = true,
}, sizeof(struct gf100_mem_v0), &ctx->mem);
```
This is correct. The compound literal zero-initializes `.version` to 0, matching the `v0` convention. The `gf100_mem_v0` data gets copied into `args->data[]` inside `nvif_mem_ctor_type()` (mem.c:70) and forwarded to the firmware/kernel memory handler, which will honor the contiguous flag.
The flags `NVIF_MEM_VRAM | NVIF_MEM_MAPPABLE` match exactly what `nvif_mem_ctor_map()` was computing internally (`NVIF_MEM_MAPPABLE | type` where `type` was `NVIF_MEM_VRAM`).
**Error handling:**
The separate `nvif_object_map()` call after `nvif_mem_ctor()` correctly jumps to `fail_fini` on failure, which calls `nvif_mem_dtor()` to clean up the allocation. This mirrors the cleanup that `nvif_mem_ctor_map()` did internally (mem.c:36).
**Minor style observation (non-blocking):**
The patch adds `struct drm_device *dev` as a new parameter to `nv50_crc_ctx_init()`, but `dev` is already reachable via the existing `head` parameter as `head->base.base.dev`. The parameter is only used once to replace that chain:
```c
- struct nv50_core *core = nv50_disp(head->base.base.dev)->core;
+ struct nv50_core *core = nv50_disp(dev)->core;
```
For a stable-targeted bug fix, keeping the change minimal by not adding the parameter would be slightly preferable — just use `head->base.base.dev` as before. That said, it's a trivial cleanup and not worth a respin.
**Reviewed-by worthy:** Yes. The fix is well-motivated, correct, and appropriately scoped.
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2026-05-01 21:58 [PATCH] drm/nouveau/kms/nvd9-: Use contiguous memory for CRC notifier context Lyude Paul
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