On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 19:38, Christian König <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 06.02.19 um 18:23 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel: > > 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? > > My bad, only pushed this to our internal branch, but forgot out > drm-misc-next. > > Fixed now, thanks for the reminder. >
Thanks, Does anyone mind if I propose this patch for backporting to v4.19 or earlier once it gets merged for v5.1? _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
