On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 06:03:12PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > 3.16.7-ckt4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > Hi Daniel and Chris, Thomas Voegtle (on Cc:) reported a regression in 3.16.7-ckt4, and he traced the issue to this commit. You can see the whole thread in the 3.16.7-ckt4 stable review email, or here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/119818/focus=120043 Any suggestions/ideas before I drop this patch? It seems odd to me that this patch causes a memory leak, but I don't really know the code. Cheers, -- Luís > ------------------ > > From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > > commit d472fcc8379c062bd56a3876fc6ef22258f14a91 upstream. > > The problem here is that SNA pins batchbuffers to etch out a bit more > performance. Iirc it started out as a w/a for i830M (which we've > implemented in the kernel since a long time already). The problem is > that the pin ioctl wasn't added in > > commit d23db88c3ab233daed18709e3a24d6c95344117f > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri May 23 08:48:08 2014 +0200 > > drm/i915: Prevent negative relocation deltas from wrapping > > Fix this by simply disallowing pinning from userspace so that the > kernel is in full control of batch placement again. Especially since > distros are moving towards running X as non-root, so most users won't > even be able to see any benefits. > > UMS support is dead now, but we need this minimal patch for > backporting. Follow-up patch will remove the pin ioctl code > completely. > > Note to backporters: You must have both > > commit b45305fce5bb1abec263fcff9d81ebecd6306ede > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Dec 17 16:21:27 2012 +0100 > > drm/i915: Implement workaround for broken CS tlb on i830/845 > > which laned in 3.8 and > > commit c4d69da167fa967749aeb70bc0e94a457e5d00c1 > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Sep 8 14:25:41 2014 +0100 > > drm/i915: Evict CS TLBs between batches > > which is also marked cc: stable. Otherwise this could introduce a > regression by disabling the userspace w/a without the kernel w/a being > fully functional on i830/45. > > References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554#c116 > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c > index ef3b4798da02..05cf35a972e5 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c > @@ -4129,7 +4129,7 @@ i915_gem_pin_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, > struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj; > int ret; > > - if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen >= 6) > + if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) > return -ENODEV; > > ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev); > @@ -4222,6 +4222,9 @@ i915_gem_busy_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, > struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj; > int ret; > > + if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) > + return -ENODEV; > + > ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev); > if (ret) > return ret; > -- > 2.1.4 > -- 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