Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drm/ttm: Only allocate huge pages with new flag TTM_PAGE_FLAG_TRANSHUGE

From: Michel DÃnzer
Date: Tue May 01 2018 - 09:59:14 EST


On 2018-05-01 01:15 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yes, I fixed the original false positive messages myself with the swiotlb
>> maintainer and I was CCed in fixing the recent fallout from Chris changes as
>> well.
>
> So do we have a good summary of where this at now?
>
> I'm getting reports on 4.16.4 still displaying these, what hammer do I
> need to hit things with to get 4.16.x+1 to not do this?
>
> Is there still outstanding issues upstream.

There are, https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/219765/ should
hopefully fix the last of it.


> [...] I've no idea if the swiotlb things people report are the false
> positive, or some new thing.

The issues I've seen reported with 4.16 are false positives from TTM's
perspective, which uses DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN to suppress these warnings, due
to multiple regressions introduced by commit
0176adb004065d6815a8e67946752df4cd947c5b "swiotlb: refactor
coherent buffer allocation" in 4.16-rc1.


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