On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 11:35, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 12:30, Christian König > <ckoenig.leichtzumer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Am 25.01.19 um 09:43 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel: > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:01, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ard Biesheuvel > > >> <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > > >>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:31, Koenig, Christian > > >>> <christian.koe...@amd.com> 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 <christian.koe...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: David Zhou <david1.z...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.hu...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Junwei Zhang <jerry.zh...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Michel Daenzer <michel.daen...@amd.com> > > >>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> > > >>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> > > >>>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@bootlin.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Sean Paul <s...@poorly.run> > > >>>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > > >>>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > > >>>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > > >>>>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> > > >>>>> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.mur...@arm.com> > > >>>>> Cc: amd-gfx list <amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org> > > >>>>> Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> > > >>>>> Reported-by: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitz...@arm.com> > > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > > >>>> The subject line should probably read "disable uncached...". > > >>>> > > >>> Ugh, of course ... > > >>> > > >>>> With that fixed the patch is Reviewed-by: Christian König > > >>>> <christian.koe...@amd.com>. > > >>>> > > >> Same: > > >> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> > > >> > > > 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. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
