On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:00:17AM +0530, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Akash Goel <[email protected]>
> 
> The 'offset' field of the 'scatterlist' structure was wrongly
> programmed with the offset value from the base of stolen area,
> whereas this field indicates the offset from where the interested
> data starts within the PAGE pointed to by the 'page-link' field.
> As a result when a new GEM object allocated from the stolen
> area is mapped to GTT, it could lead to an overwrite of GTT entries
> as the page count calculation will go wrong, refer the function
> 'sg_page_count'.

This statement is incorrect since my use of sg here predates
sg_page_iter.

The stolen sg has no page_link, the meaning of offset/length here are
relative to the base of the stolen area.

However, if you wish to rephrase the above...
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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