Re: [PATCH] gpu/drm: Remove TTM_PL_FLAG_WC of VRAM to fix writecombine issue for Loongson64

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2020-08-09 2:13 p.m., Christian König wrote:
> Am 08.08.20 um 15:50 schrieb Jiaxun Yang:
>> 在 2020/8/8 下午9:41, Thomas Bogendoerfer 写道:
>>> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 03:25:02PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
>>>> Loongson processors have a writecombine issue that maybe failed to
>>>> write back framebuffer used with ATI Radeon or AMD GPU at times,
>>>> after commit 8a08e50cee66 ("drm: Permit video-buffers writecombine
>>>> mapping for MIPS"), there exists some errors such as blurred screen
>>>> and lockup, and so on.
>>>>
>>>> Remove the flag TTM_PL_FLAG_WC of VRAM to fix writecombine issue for
>>>> Loongson64 to work well with ATI Radeon or AMD GPU, and it has no any
>>>> influence on the other platforms.
>>> well it's not my call to take or reject this patch, but I already
>>> indicated it might be better to disable writecombine on the CPU
>>> detection side (or do you have other devices where writecombining
>>> works ?). Something like below will disbale it for all loongson64 CPUs.
>>> If you now find out where it works and where it doesn't, you can even
>>> reduce it to the required minium of affected CPUs.
>> Hi Tiezhu, Thomas,
>>
>> Yes, writecombine works well on LS7A's internal GPU....
>> And even works well with some AMD GPUs (in my case, RX550).
> 
> In this case the patch is a clear NAK since you haven't root caused the
> issue and are just working around it in a very questionable manner.

To be fair though, amdgpu & radeon are already disabling write-combining
for system memory pages in 32-bit x86 kernels for similar reasons.


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