On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:13 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:21 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> >   
> >> Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 21:06 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Hi Thomas
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am getting massive error on x86_64, things like :
> >>>>> BUG: Bad page map in process gnome-session  pte:1f1d1d1d01000000
> >>>>> pmd:321a6067
> >>>>> keep filling the log until very bad things happen.
> >>>>> Do you have any idea what might cause that in ttm ?
> >>>>> My assumption is that ttm vm code is guilty their.
> >>>>> Note that on x86 exact same code seem to run fine.
> >>>>> All this with 2.6.29 final.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> Jerome Glisse
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Hi, Jerome!
> >>>>
> >>>> The TTM code may well be guilty here. I haven't tested x86-64 for a 
> >>>> while, but I can probably give it a try on openChrome next week.
> >>>>
> >>>> /Thomas
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Okay so i really narrowed it down to asking for WC memory, so my guess
> >>> is that either my CPU (AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e) have
> >>> PAT issue either TTM PAT/WC code is wrong somehow. I haven't time yet
> >>> to go deeper with this but i think it worked on an Intel Core2 CPU
> >>> with x86-64. Also it seems other people doesn't have the issue with
> >>> WC on x86-64.
> >>>
> >>> PS: Sorry for all the noise, the bug didn't always showed up quickly so
> >>> i had false feeling. I am yet unsure it's fully fixed but so far all my
> >>> test case which triggered it seems to work fine.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Jerome
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Jerome,
> >> I think I missed what the fix was?
> >>
> >> Anyway, for PAT-aware kernels the drm git TTM code is always assuming 
> >> PAT is enabled and working.
> >> For production kernels, the function
> >>  
> >> pgprot_ttm_x86_wc
> >>
> >> should be replaced by an exported version of x86 pgprot_writecombine.
> >>
> >> FWIW x86-64 seems to work fine here on a 2.6.27 kernel Athlon-64 
> >> single-core on openChrome.
> >>
> >> /Thomas
> >>     
> >
> >
> > Fix is to not ask for WC memory, i will look at this after i cleanup
> > all my hack to track down this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jerome
> >
> >   
> OK.
> 
> If there was an erratum causing PAT not to be enabled on your processor, 
> then definitely that
> may have cause strange inconsistencies.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas.

I think ttm_tt caching stuff does follow kernel policies outlined
in Documentation/x86/pat.txt well at least from understanding of
code i have right now through (call chains being sometimes hard
to fully follow). As also have another issue it seems that calling
set_memory_(uc|wc) while suspending lockup the cpu or at least doesn't
return, is this somethings i should expect ?

Cheers,
Jerome


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