Re: [RFC] drm/nouveau: disable caching for VRAM BOs on ARM

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Am Montag, den 19.05.2014, 18:46 +0900 schrieb Alexandre Courbot:
> This patch is not meant to be merged, but rather to try and understand
> why this is needed and what a more suitable solution could be.
> 
> Allowing BOs to be write-cached results in the following happening when
> trying to run any program on Tegra/GK20A:
> 
> Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1008) at 0xf0036010
> ...
> (nouveau_bo_rd32) from [<c0357d00>] (nouveau_fence_update+0x5c/0x80)
> (nouveau_fence_update) from [<c0357d40>] (nouveau_fence_done+0x1c/0x38)
> (nouveau_fence_done) from [<c02c3d00>] (ttm_bo_wait+0xec/0x168)
> (ttm_bo_wait) from [<c035e334>] (nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep+0x44/0x100)
> (nouveau_gem_ioctl_cpu_prep) from [<c02aaa84>] (drm_ioctl+0x1d8/0x4f4)
> (drm_ioctl) from [<c0355394>] (nouveau_drm_ioctl+0x54/0x80)
> (nouveau_drm_ioctl) from [<c00ee7b0>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x3dc/0x5a0)
> (do_vfs_ioctl) from [<c00ee9a8>] (SyS_ioctl+0x34/0x5c)
> (SyS_ioctl) from [<c000e6e0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30
> 
> The offending nouveau_bo_rd32 is done over an IO-mapped BO, e.g. a BO
> mapped through the BAR.
> 
Um wait, this memory is behind an already mapped bar? I think ioremap on
ARM defaults to uncached mappings, so if you want to access the memory
behind this bar as WC you need to map the BAR as a whole as WC by using
ioremap_wc.

Regards,
Lucas

> Any idea about the origin of this behavior? Does ARM forbid cached
> mappings over IO regions?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> index 8db54a217232..9cfb8e61f5c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
> @@ -552,7 +552,11 @@ nouveau_bo_init_mem_type(struct ttm_bo_device *bdev, uint32_t type,
>  			     TTM_MEMTYPE_FLAG_MAPPABLE;
>  		man->available_caching = TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED |
>  					 TTM_PL_FLAG_WC;
> +#if defined(__arm__)
> +		man->default_caching = TTM_PL_FLAG_UNCACHED;
> +#else
>  		man->default_caching = TTM_PL_FLAG_WC;
> +#endif
>  		break;
>  	case TTM_PL_TT:
>  		if (nv_device(drm->device)->card_type >= NV_50)

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.             | Lucas Stach                 |
Industrial Linux Solutions   | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

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