Re: [2.6.25-git18 => 2.6.26-rc1-git1] Xorg crash with xf86MapVidMem error

From: Venki Pallipadi
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 22:09:22 EST


On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:49:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Which seems to be mapping framebuffer successfully.
> >
> > Can you please try the patch below and capture the dmesg after you get
> > the above xf86MapVidMem error and send it. That should give us more
> > information on the failure.
>
> > +#define DEBUG
>
> btw., could we turn this into a /debug or sysctl flag thing, to make it
> easier for people to get these debug messages?
>

Below is the patch to enable debug messages by a boot option "debugpat".

We are also planning to a /proc or /debug entry to dump the memtype
list at runtime rather than depending on full dmesg. Will send the patch soon.

Thanks,
Venki



Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/pat.c 2008-05-05 18:27:30.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c 2008-05-05 18:28:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -38,6 +38,19 @@ static int nopat(char *str)
}
early_param("nopat", nopat);

+
+static int debug_enable;
+static int __init pat_debug_setup(char *str)
+{
+ debug_enable = 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+__setup("debugpat", pat_debug_setup);
+
+#define PAT_PRINTK(fmt, arg...) \
+ do { if (debug_enable) printk(KERN_INFO fmt, ##arg); } while (0)
+
+
static int pat_known_cpu(void)
{
if (!pat_wc_enabled)
@@ -285,7 +298,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
struct memtype *saved_ptr;

if (parse->start >= end) {
- pr_debug("New Entry\n");
+ PAT_PRINTK("New Entry\n");
list_add(&new_entry->nd, parse->nd.prev);
new_entry = NULL;
break;
@@ -335,7 +348,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
break;
}

- pr_debug("Overlap at 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n",
+ PAT_PRINTK("Overlap at 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n",
saved_ptr->start, saved_ptr->end);
/* No conflict. Go ahead and add this new entry */
list_add(&new_entry->nd, saved_ptr->nd.prev);
@@ -387,7 +400,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
break;
}

- pr_debug(KERN_INFO "Overlap at 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n",
+ PAT_PRINTK("Overlap at 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n",
saved_ptr->start, saved_ptr->end);
/* No conflict. Go ahead and add this new entry */
list_add(&new_entry->nd, &saved_ptr->nd);
@@ -409,16 +422,16 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
if (new_entry) {
/* No conflict. Not yet added to the list. Add to the tail */
list_add_tail(&new_entry->nd, &memtype_list);
- pr_debug("New Entry\n");
+ PAT_PRINTK("New Entry\n");
}

if (ret_type) {
- pr_debug(
+ PAT_PRINTK(
"reserve_memtype added 0x%Lx-0x%Lx, track %s, req %s, ret %s\n",
start, end, cattr_name(actual_type),
cattr_name(req_type), cattr_name(*ret_type));
} else {
- pr_debug(
+ PAT_PRINTK(
"reserve_memtype added 0x%Lx-0x%Lx, track %s, req %s\n",
start, end, cattr_name(actual_type),
cattr_name(req_type));
@@ -459,7 +472,7 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end)
current->comm, current->pid, start, end);
}

- pr_debug("free_memtype request 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n", start, end);
+ PAT_PRINTK("free_memtype request 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n", start, end);
return err;
}

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