[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Allow full PPGTT with param override

[Ben Widawsky]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:46:12AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 06:06:00PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > When PPGTT was disabled by default, the patch also prevented the user
> > from overriding this behavior via module parameter. Being able to test
> > this on arbitrary kernels is extremely beneficial to track down the
> > remaining bugs. The patch that prevented this was:
> > 
> > commit 93a25a9e2d67765c3092bfaac9b855d95e39df97
> > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Date:   Thu Mar 6 09:40:43 2014 +0100
> > 
> >     drm/i915: Disable full ppgtt by default
> > 
> > By default PPGTT is set to -1. 0 means off, 1 means aliasing only, 2
> > means full, all other values are reserved.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
> 
> My apologies for breaking this a bit harder than intended, and thanks for
> fixing it up. Patch merged to dinq.
> -Daniel
> 

No harm, no foul. FWIW QA had been reported 0 PPGTT regressions for the
last week or so. Score one for their consistency.

> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > index bbc9420..9068628 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ bool intel_enable_ppgtt(struct drm_device *dev, bool full)
> >  
> >  	/* Full ppgtt disabled by default for now due to issues. */
> >  	if (full)
> > -		return false; /* HAS_PPGTT(dev) */
> > +		return HAS_PPGTT(dev) && (i915.enable_ppgtt == 2);
> >  	else
> >  		return HAS_ALIASING_PPGTT(dev);
> >  }
> > -- 
> > 1.9.1
> > 
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> Daniel Vetter
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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center