On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 11:35, Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 12:30, Christian König
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Am 25.01.19 um 09:43 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:01, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ard Biesheuvel
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>> 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]>.
> > >>>>
> > >> Same:
> > >> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > >>
> > > Thanks all
> > >
> > > Should I resend the patch with the subject corrected?
> >
> > I will update the subject line and push it upstream through
> > drm-misc-next if nobody objects.
> >
>
> Wonderful, thanks.

Hi Christian,

Are you still planning to merge this for v5.1?

Thanks,
Ard.
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