From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Stéphane Marchesin" <marcheu@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keithp@keithp.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, seanpaul@chromium.org,
olofj@chromium.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Work around Intel SNB GTT bug with some physical pages.
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:57:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zk9jlf3e.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336432421-17972-1-git-send-email-marcheu@chromium.org> ("Stéphane Marchesin"'s message of "Mon, 7 May 2012 16:13:41 -0700")
Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@chromium.org> writes:
> While investing some Sandy Bridge rendering corruption, I found out
> that all physical memory pages below 1MiB were returning garbage when
> read through the GTT. This has been causing graphics corruption (when
> it's used for textures, render targets and pixmaps) and GPU hangups
> (when it's used for GPU batch buffers).
It would be possible to exlude GFP_DMA from the page allocator. That
covers the first 16MB. You just need a custom zone list with ZONE_DMA.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 23:13 [PATCH] mm: Work around Intel SNB GTT bug with some physical pages Stéphane Marchesin
2012-05-07 23:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-05-08 6:53 ` Dave Airlie
2012-05-08 7:21 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-08 15:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-08 17:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-08 18:03 ` Rob Clark
2012-05-08 21:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-09 8:56 ` Daniel Vetter
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