[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Sanitize the enable_ppgtt module option once

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:53:58AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> Otherwise we'll end up spamming dmesg on every context creation on snb
>> with vt-d enabled. This regression was introduced in
>> 
>> commit 246cbfb5fb9a1ca0997fbb135464c1ff5bb9c549
>> Author: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky at intel.com>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 6 14:11:14 2013 -0800
>> 
>>     drm/i915: Reorganize intel_enable_ppgtt
>> 
>> As the i915.enable_ppgtt is read-only it cannot be changed after the
>> module is loaded and so we can perform an early sanitization of the
>> values.
>> 
>> v2:
>> - Add comment and pimp commit message (Chris)
>> - Use the param consistently (Jani)
>> 
>> v3:
>> - Fix init sequence on pre-gen6 by moving the sanitize_ppgtt call to
>>   gtt_init. Fixes boot hangs on pre-gen6.
>> - Add a debug output for the sanitize ppgtt mode.
>> 
>> References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/17/599
>> Rererences: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77916
>> Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>
> I am pretty sure we only call i915_gem_gtt_init() once during driver
> load... So let's try that r-b again.
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

Pushed to -fixes, thanks for the patch and review.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center