Re: Why can't ttm_tt_swapout() handle uncached or WC BOs?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Am 17.09.20 um 16:44 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
On 2020-09-17 2:20 p.m., Christian König wrote:
Hi guys,

Michel once submitted a patch to fix triggering this BUG_ON in ttm_tt_swapout():

BUG_ON(ttm->caching_state != tt_cached);

Now my question is does anybody know why we have that in the first place?

The only problematic thing I can see is calling copy_highpage() and that one is just doing a kmap_atomic()/kunmap_atomic() on the source and destination.

I can't see why it should be problematic for this temporary mapping to be cached instead of uncached or WC?

Does anybody has any idea?

One thing is that AFAIK some (ARM?) CPUs can get very upset when there's both a cached and uncacheable mapping for the same physical page.

Good point, but I already considered this.

If there is another mapping for that page left we are completely busted anyway since we are currently changing the underlying storage.

In other words nobody else should have a mapping because we are about to copy and then free up the memory.

Any other idea? It is the only place where we actually have to change the caching attributes.

Christian.
_______________________________________________
dri-devel mailing list
dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel




[Index of Archives]     [Linux DRI Users]     [Linux Intel Graphics]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux