Re: [PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: add dce6 drm_panic support

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On 2024-09-24 16:02, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:36 AM Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 17/09/2024 15:21, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 2:10 AM Lu Yao <yaolu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Add support for the drm_panic module, which displays a pretty user
>>>> friendly message on the screen when a Linux kernel panic occurs.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lu Yao <yaolu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Patch looks good to me.  Any chance you want to convert the other
>>> non-DC dce files (dce_v8_0.c, dce_v10_0.c, dce_v11_0.c) while you are
>>> at it?
>>
>> I've made a similar patch in amdgpu_dm_plane.c, and it works on a Radeon
>> pro w6400.
>> But it only works when I'm in a VT terminal (so the framebuffer is
>> linear and CPU accessible).
>> When under Gnome/Wayland, the flag AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_NO_CPU_ACCESS is
>> set, so that means I can't vmap it ?
> 
> It just means that the application does not need CPU access.  Whether
> or not the CPU can access the buffer or not depends on the size of the
> PCI BAR.  E.g., if the driver or bios has resized the PCI BAR, then
> the CPU can access the entire BAR, but if not you are generally
> limited to the first 256M of framebuffer.

FWIW, it's also possible to access all of VRAM via MMIO indirect registers. That'll be slower than a direct CPU map, it might be acceptable for drm_panic though, at least as a fallback.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer       \        GNOME / Xwayland / Mesa developer
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