On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 11:46:06AM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > Quoting Bjorn Helgaas (2020-11-04 19:35:56) > > [+cc Jani, Joonas, Rodrigo, David, Daniel] > > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:35:06PM +0530, Tejas Upadhyay wrote: > > > JSL re-uses the same stolen memory as ICL and EHL. > > > > > > Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Tejas Upadhyay <tejaskumarx.surendrakumar.upadhyay@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > I don't plan to do anything with this since previous similar patches > > have gone through some other tree, so this is just kibitzing. > > > > But the fact that we have this long list of Intel devices [1] that > > constantly needs updates [2] is a hint that something is wrong. > > We add an entry for every new integrated graphics platform. Once the > platform is added, there have not been changes lately. > > > IIUC the general idea is that we need to discover Intel gfx memory by > > looking at device-dependent config space and add it to the E820 map. > > Apparently the quirks discover this via PCI config registers like > > I830_ESMRAMC, I845_ESMRAMC, etc, and tell the driver about it via the > > global "intel_graphics_stolen_res"? > > We discover what is called the graphics data stolen memory. It is regular > system memory range that is not CPU accessible. It is accessible by the > integrated graphics only. > > See: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c?h=v5.10-rc2&id=814c5f1f52a4beb3710317022acd6ad34fc0b6b9 > > > That's not the way this should work. There should some generic, non > > device-dependent PCI or ACPI method to discover the memory used, or at > > least some way to do it in the driver instead of early arch code. > > It's used by the early BIOS/UEFI code to set up initial framebuffer. > Even if i915 driver is never loaded, the memory ranges still need to > be fixed. They source of the problem is that the OEM BIOS which are > not under our control get the programming wrong. > > We used to detect the memory region size again at i915 initialization > but wanted to eliminate the code duplication and resulting subtle bugs > that caused. Conclusion back then was that storing the struct resource > in memory is the best trade-off. > > > How is this *supposed* to work? Is there something we can do in E820 > > or other resource management that would make this easier? > > The code was added around Haswell (HSW) device generation to mitigate > bugs in BIOS. It is traditionally hard to get all OEMs to fix their > BIOS when things work for Windows. It's only later years when some > laptop models are intended to be sold with Linux. > > The alternative would be to get all the OEM to fix their BIOS for Linux, > but that is not very realistic given past experiences. So it seems > a better choice to to add new line per platform generation to make > sure the users can boot to Linux. How does Windows do this? Do they have to add similar code for each new platform? > > > --- > > > arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c | 1 + > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c > > > index a4b5af03dcc1..534cc3f78c6b 100644 > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c > > > @@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ static const struct pci_device_id intel_early_ids[] __initconst = { > > > INTEL_CNL_IDS(&gen9_early_ops), > > > INTEL_ICL_11_IDS(&gen11_early_ops), > > > INTEL_EHL_IDS(&gen11_early_ops), > > > + INTEL_JSL_IDS(&gen11_early_ops), > > > INTEL_TGL_12_IDS(&gen11_early_ops), > > > INTEL_RKL_IDS(&gen11_early_ops), > > > }; > > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c?h=v5.10-rc2#n518 > > > > [2] > > May 2020 efbee021ad02 ("x86/gpu: add RKL stolen memory support") > > Jul 2019 6b2436aeb945 ("x86/gpu: add TGL stolen memory support") > > Mar 2019 d53fef0be4a5 ("x86/gpu: add ElkhartLake to gen11 early quirks") > > May 2018 db0c8d8b031d ("x86/gpu: reserve ICL's graphics stolen memory") > > Dec 2017 33aa69ed8aac ("x86/gpu: add CFL to early quirks") > > Jul 2017 2e1e9d48939e ("x86/gpu: CNL uses the same GMS values as SKL") > > Jan 2017 bc384c77e3bb ("x86/gpu: GLK uses the same GMS values as SKL") > > Oct 2015 00ce5c8a66fb ("drm/i915/kbl: Kabylake uses the same GMS values as Skylake") > > Mar 2015 31d4dcf705c3 ("drm/i915/bxt: Broxton uses the same GMS values as Skylake") > > ...
