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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/Sandy Bridge: reserve pages when integrated graphics is present
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:19:05 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:31 +0000
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
>
> > SNB graphics devices have a bug that prevent them from accessing certain
> > memory ranges, namely anything below 1M and in the pages listed in the
> > table. So reserve those at boot if set detect a SNB gfx device on the
> > CPU to avoid GPU hangs.
>
> What happens if the other addresses map to an external memory object - eg
> a PCI device which is a legitimate DMA source for video overlay etc ?

Other addresses as in the 5 pages high in the address space? I'm not
sure how to do what I want with memblock, doesn't it just allocate RAM
not I/O space?... /me looks at the memblock API

Or do you mean if we map GTT pages to point at some non-RAM region will
SNB gfx be able to decode them? If that's the question, then I think
the answer is no, but I don't have enough detail on the hw bug to be
certain.

> I assume this is just for GPU fetches from main memory ?

AIUI, it's an address decoder bug, so it would affect any fetch by the
GPU through its memory interface glue.

--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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