On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:35 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: 
> From: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>
> 
> On constrained r100 systems compiz would fail to start due to a lack
> of memory, we can just fallback place the objects rather than completely
> failing it works a lot better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>

This change seems to trigger or at least greatly expedite GPU lockups on
my PowerBook. With the change applied, my normal X session locked up the
GPU after just a few minutes several times. Now with it reverted it's
back to the previous stability.

I don't know why that is - maybe something doesn't properly deal with
BOs getting placed differently in some cases now - but anyway I suspect
the implications of this change haven't been fully thought through: The
log message sounds as though the change was mainly written with
radeon_bo_create() / radeon_bo_list_validate() in mind, but
radeon_ttm_placement_from_domain() is also called from other places:

      * radeon_bo_pin(): The change could lead to a BO being pinned to
        GTT instead of VRAM, which would probably be bad. 
      * radeon_evict_flags(): The change might have undesirable
        consequences here as well, not sure.

I don't think the way we currently use the same arrays for normal and
busy placement makes a lot of sense, but we probably need a better
mechanism to specify which placements are desirable / acceptable in each
case.


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