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Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Fix Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland black screen issue" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

drm/vmwgfx: Fix Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland black screen issue

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
drm-vmwgfx-fix-ubuntu-17.10-wayland-black-screen-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From cef75036c40408ba3bc308bcb00a3d440da713fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Sinclair Yeh <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:47:05 -0700
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland black screen issue

From: Sinclair Yeh <[email protected]>

commit cef75036c40408ba3bc308bcb00a3d440da713fc upstream.

This is an extension of Commit 7c20d213dd3c ("drm/vmwgfx: Work around mode set failure in 2D VMs")

With Wayland desktop and atomic mode set, during the mode setting process there is a moment when two framebuffer sized surfaces are being pinned. This was not an issue with Xorg.

Since this only happens during a mode change, there should be no performance impact by increasing allowable mem_size.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c +1 -1
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static int vmw_driver_load(struct drm_de
 		 * allocation taken by fbdev
 		 */
 		if (!(dev_priv->capabilities & SVGA_CAP_3D))
-			mem_size *= 2;
+			mem_size *= 3;
 
 		dev_priv->max_mob_pages = mem_size * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE;
 		dev_priv->prim_bb_mem =

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.13/drm-vmwgfx-fix-ubuntu-17.10-wayland-black-screen-issue.patch