Re: [PATCH] drm: i915: ensure objects are allocated below 4GB onPAE

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 14:35 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 21:17 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:27 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > > From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Ensure we allocate GEM objects below 4GB on PAE machines, otherwise
> > > misery ensues. This patch is based on a patch found on dri-devel by
> > > Shaohua Li, but Keith P. expressed reticence that the changes unfairly
> > > penalized other hardware.
> > > 
> > > (The mm/shmem.c hunk is necessary to ensure the DMA32 flag isn't used
> > >  by the slab allocator via radix_tree_preload, which will hit a
> > >  WARN_ON.)
> > 
> > Why is this, is the gart not PAE friendly?
> > 
> > Seems to me its a grand way of promoting 64bit hard/soft-ware.
> 
> No, the GART's fine.  But the APIs required to make the AGP code
> PAE-friendly got deprecated, so the patches to fix the AGP code got
> NAKed, and Venkatesh  never sent out his patches to undeprecate the APIs
> and use them.
> 
> It's been like 6 months now, and it's absurd.  I'd like to see this
> patch go in so people's graphics can start working again and stop
> corrupting system memory.

For .30 yes, for .31 we need to resolve that AGP issue, 6 months does
seem excessive to get something like that sorted.

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