This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/radeon: stop poisoning the GART TLB to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-radeon-stop-poisoning-the-gart-tlb.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0986c1a55ca64b44ee126a2f719a6e9f28cbe0ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?= <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:29:56 +0200 Subject: drm/radeon: stop poisoning the GART TLB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> commit 0986c1a55ca64b44ee126a2f719a6e9f28cbe0ed upstream. When we set the valid bit on invalid GART entries they are loaded into the TLB when an adjacent entry is loaded. This poisons the TLB with invalid entries which are sometimes not correctly removed on TLB flush. For stable inclusion the patch probably needs to be modified a bit. Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs600.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs600.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rs600.c @@ -539,8 +539,10 @@ int rs600_gart_set_page(struct radeon_de return -EINVAL; } addr = addr & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF000ULL; - addr |= R600_PTE_VALID | R600_PTE_SYSTEM | R600_PTE_SNOOPED; - addr |= R600_PTE_READABLE | R600_PTE_WRITEABLE; + if (addr != rdev->dummy_page.addr) + addr |= R600_PTE_VALID | R600_PTE_READABLE | + R600_PTE_WRITEABLE; + addr |= R600_PTE_SYSTEM | R600_PTE_SNOOPED; writeq(addr, ptr + (i * 8)); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christian.koenig@xxxxxxx are queue-3.4/drm-radeon-stop-poisoning-the-gart-tlb.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html