[Intel-gfx] [CI 4/6] drm/i915: Always use the GTT for error capture

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Oct 13 15:08:25 UTC 2016


On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:02:50PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:05:20AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Since the GTT provides universal access to any GPU page, we can use it
> > to reduce our plethora of read methods to just one. It also has the
> > important characteristic of being exactly what the GPU sees - if there
> > are incoherency problems, seeing the batch as executed (rather than as
> > trapped inside the cpu cache) is important.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Meh, so much for me reading patches in order ;-)
> 
> Please reorder this one before the previous one and I'll be happy too.

Hmm, I actually thought this was. Shows what I remember about my
series.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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