[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Don't access snooped pages through the GTT (even for error capture)
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Jan 30 15:44:41 CET 2014
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:38:16PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> We want to use the GTT for reading back objects upon an error so that we
> have exactly the information that the GPU saw. However, it is verboten
> to access snoopable pages through the GTT and causes my PineView GPU to
> throw a page fault instead.
>
> This has not been a problem in the past as we only dumped ringbuffers
> and batchbuffers, both of which must be uncached. However, the
s/uncached/not snooped/ to avoid confusion on SNB and friends.
-Chris
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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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