[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: Allocate context objects from stolen"
Ville Syrjälä
ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Tue Jun 30 03:07:43 PDT 2015
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:44:15AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:31:54AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > Stolen gets trashed during hibernation, so storing contexts there
> > > is not a very good idea. On my IVB machines this leads to a totally
> > > dead GPU on resume. A reboot is required to resurrect it. So let's
> > > not store contexts where they will get trampled.
> > >
> > > This reverts commit 149c86e74fe44dcbac5e9f8d145c5fbc5dc21261.
> >
> > Looks like a *partial* revert of
> >
> > commit 149c86e74fe44dcbac5e9f8d145c5fbc5dc21261
> > Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Date: Tue Apr 7 16:21:11 2015 +0100
> >
> > drm/i915: Allocate context objects from stolen
> >
> > and the not reverted hunk has been touched since in
> >
> > commit 3126a660f352b3fe48125a8a0b4fdbf85935d8bf
> > Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> > Date: Thu Apr 30 17:30:50 2015 +0300
> >
> > drm/i915: checking IS_ERR() instead of NULL
> >
> > The commit message should say it's a partial revert and not claim
> > otherwise, and document why not everything was reverted.
> >
> > The above commits are in Linus' tree.
>
> The fixes I have planned to migrate context objects on hibernation are
> not of the simple variety! Revert now, fix later.
>
> Given Ville's discovery, it also makes
>
> commit 8040513870399f1cb032cb8bc805df5042fedcdf
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date: Thu Nov 15 11:32:29 2012 +0000
>
> drm/i915: Allocate overlay registers from stolen memory
>
> suspect.
Hmm. It does look like it might not reinitialize the entire register
block on suspend.
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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