I've spent hours chasing a memory corruption that was caused by
insertion of an extra field field before ->base. Let's document the
fact that base has to be the first field in panfrost_gem_object.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezil...@collabora.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
index e92ea67878ed..979dff1e7b07 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.h
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 struct panfrost_mmu;
 
 struct panfrost_gem_object {
+       /*
+        * Must be the first element because we're using some of the
+        * drm_gem_shmem helpers.
+        */
        struct drm_gem_shmem_object base;
        struct sg_table *sgts;
 
-- 
2.23.0

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