On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:52:54 -0800
Ben Widawsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> This bug was introduced by me:
> commit e76e9aebcdbfebae8f4cd147e3c0f800d36e97f3
> Author: Ben Widawsky <[email protected]>
> Date:   Sun Nov 4 09:21:27 2012 -0800
> 
>     drm/i915: Stop using AGP layer for GEN6+
> 
> The existing code uses memset_io which follows memset semantics in only
> guaranteeing a write of individual bytes. Since a PTE entry is 4 bytes,
> this can only be correct if the scratch page address is 0.
> 
> This caused unsightly errors when we clear the range at load time,
> though I'm not really sure what the heck is referencing that memory
> anyway. I caught this is because I believe we have some other bug where
> the display is doing reads of memory we feel should be cleared (or we
> are relying on scratch pages to be a specific value).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> index 51f79bb..f7ac61e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> @@ -367,8 +367,9 @@ static void i915_ggtt_clear_range(struct drm_device *dev,
>  {
>       struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
>       gtt_pte_t scratch_pte;
> -     volatile void __iomem *gtt_base = dev_priv->mm.gtt->gtt + first_entry;
> +     gtt_pte_t __iomem *gtt_base = dev_priv->mm.gtt->gtt + first_entry;
>       const int max_entries = dev_priv->mm.gtt->gtt_total_entries - 
> first_entry;
> +     int i;
>  
>       if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen < 6) {
>               intel_gtt_clear_range(first_entry, num_entries);
> @@ -381,7 +382,8 @@ static void i915_ggtt_clear_range(struct drm_device *dev,
>               num_entries = max_entries;
>  
>       scratch_pte = pte_encode(dev, dev_priv->mm.gtt->scratch_page_dma, 
> I915_CACHE_LLC);
> -     memset_io(gtt_base, scratch_pte, num_entries * sizeof(scratch_pte));
> +     for (i = 0; i < num_entries; i++)
> +             iowrite32(scratch_pte, &gtt_base[i]);
>       readl(gtt_base);
>  }
>  

"This has been slurped into -queued. Thanks for the patch" - or
something like that.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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