On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:31, Koenig, Christian
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am 24.01.19 um 13:06 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> > The DRM driver stack is designed to work with cache coherent devices
> > only, but permits an optimization to be enabled in some cases, where
> > for some buffers, both the CPU and the GPU use uncached mappings,
> > removing the need for DMA snooping and allocation in the CPU caches.
> >
> > The use of uncached GPU mappings relies on the correct implementation
> > of the PCIe NoSnoop TLP attribute by the platform, otherwise the GPU
> > will use cached mappings nonetheless. On x86 platforms, this does not
> > seem to matter, as uncached CPU mappings will snoop the caches in any
> > case. However, on ARM and arm64, enabling this optimization on a
> > platform where NoSnoop is ignored results in loss of coherency, which
> > breaks correct operation of the device. Since we have no way of
> > detecting whether NoSnoop works or not, just disable this
> > optimization entirely for ARM and arm64.
> >
> > Cc: Christian Koenig <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Zhou <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Huang Rui <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Junwei Zhang <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Michel Daenzer <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
> > Cc: amd-gfx list <[email protected]>
> > Cc: dri-devel <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
>
> The subject line should probably read "disable uncached...".
>

Ugh, of course ...

> With that fixed the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König
> <[email protected]>.
>

Thanks.
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