Re: 5.13 i915/PAT regression on Brasswell, adding nopat to the kernel commandline worksaround this

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:15:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> IIRC it's because of 74ffa5a3e685 ("mm: add remap_pfn_range_notrack"),
> which added a sanity check to make sure expectations were met. It turns
> out they were not.
> 
> The bug is not new, the warning is. AFAIK the i915 team is aware, but
> other than that I've not followed.


The actual culprit is b12d691ea5e0 ("i915: fix remap_io_sg to verify the
pgprot"), but otherwise agreed.  Someone the i915 maintainers all seem
to be on vacation as the previous report did not manage to trigger any
kind of reply.