Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/selftests: scrub 64K

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On 10 May 2018 at 20:56, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Auld (2018-05-10 20:00:06)
>> We write out all PTEs when operating in 64K mode, which is acceptable
>> given the assertion that the hw only cares about every 16th PTE and so
>> will ignore everything else.  However this may hide potential issues,
>> for example the hw could be sneakily operating in 4K mode and we would
>> be none the wiser, so make sure this doesn't escape us in the selftests.
>
> For selftesting, don't you want to do the opposite and set the ignored
> addresses to something that will explode, and not something safe?

The tests will fail, when we do write_huge some of our writes will
land in scratch, and cpu_check will throw a fit.

> -Chris
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