[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] don't enable kernel execbuf fencing w/EXA

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Apr 7 20:27:17 CEST 2009


If we enable kernel execbuf fence register management, it's best if the
kernel manages all fence registers.  This works fine if the accel
method is managing pixmaps or doesn't use offscreen pixmaps.  However
with EXA, pixmap accesses are done relative to the framebuffer BAR
mapping (pI830->FbBase) and the Screen pixmap address.  So if we try to
set the screen pixmap to point at a GTT mapped (and therefore properly
fenced) address, later calls to intel_get_pixmap_offset() will call
into EXA, which will use the pseudo-random pixmap addr and the EXA
offscreen base addr (which is really just FbBase) to calculate the
offset.  This will fail.  So disable kernel fence reg management in the
EXA case (this is easier than adding proper EXA pixmap management to
xf86-video-intel, and makes more sense since we'll be removing EXA soon
anyway).

Fixes FDO #21027.

Comments?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

diff --git a/src/i830_memory.c b/src/i830_memory.c
index e3314c5..0f8d90d 100644
--- a/src/i830_memory.c
+++ b/src/i830_memory.c
@@ -533,14 +533,15 @@ i830_allocator_init(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size)
 		struct drm_i915_gem_init init;
 		int ret;
 
-		sp.param = I915_SETPARAM_NUM_USED_FENCES;
-		sp.value = 0; /* kernel gets them all */
-
-		ret = drmCommandWrite(pI830->drmSubFD, DRM_I915_SETPARAM, &sp,
-				      sizeof(sp));
-		if (ret == 0)
-		    pI830->kernel_exec_fencing = TRUE;
-
+		if (pI830->accel == ACCEL_UXA) {
+		    sp.param = I915_SETPARAM_NUM_USED_FENCES;
+		    sp.value = 0; /* kernel gets them all */
+
+		    ret = drmCommandWrite(pI830->drmSubFD, DRM_I915_SETPARAM,
+					  &sp, sizeof(sp));
+		    if (ret == 0)
+			pI830->kernel_exec_fencing = TRUE;
+		}
 		init.gtt_start = pI830->memory_manager->offset;
 		init.gtt_end = pI830->memory_manager->offset +
 		    pI830->memory_manager->size;



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