[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix early vram corruption originating from vgacon

[Marcin Kościelnicki]

On 04.10.2012 13:35, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:52:30AM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
>> There's a short window between module load and fbcon initalization when
>> it's possible for vgacon to write to VGA RAM. Nouveau uses this memory
>> for different purposes, so if we are unlucky, it causes mysterious memory
>> corruptions.
>>
>> For me, booting with nv_printk debug levels set to 5 was enough to trigger it.
>> It manifested as long stream of:
>> "trapped write at ... on channel 0x0001fea0 BAR/PFIFO_WRITE/IN reason:
>> DMAOBJ_LIMIT / PT_NOT_PRESENT / PAGE_SYSTEM_ONLY / PAGE_NOT_PRESENT"
>> which eventually lead to complete hang.
>>
>> Disabling access to VGA memory (through 0x54 PCI config space register) is
>> enough to fix it, but it breaks copying screen data between old and new
>> console (because old data is inaccessible). But blanking console (with
>> entering_gfx==1) is enough to move vgacon screen buffer from VRAM to RAM
>> and let handover to work correctly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
>> index 6826525..1641bd9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
>> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>>   #include <linux/console.h>
>>   #include <linux/module.h>
>>   #include <linux/pci.h>
>> +#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
>>
>>   #include <core/device.h>
>>   #include <core/client.h>
>> @@ -51,6 +52,8 @@
>>
>>   #include "nouveau_ttm.h"
>>
>> +#define NV_PCI_VGAMEM_ENABLE 0x54
>> +
>>   MODULE_PARM_DESC(config, "option string to pass to driver core");
>>   static char *nouveau_config;
>>   module_param_named(config, nouveau_config, charp, 0400);
>> @@ -247,9 +250,20 @@ nouveau_drm_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>>   	struct nouveau_drm *drm;
>>   	int ret;
>>
>> +	/* Blank initial console to prevent VRAM corruption while we initialize
>> +	 * the HW. For vgacon it will move console memory from VGA VRAM to RAM.
>> +	 */
>> +	console_lock();
>> +	do_blank_screen(1);
>> +	console_unlock();
>> +
>> +	/* Completely disable access to VGA IO/memory, just to be sure no one
>> +	 * will change it. */
>> +	pci_write_config_byte(pdev, NV_PCI_VGAMEM_ENABLE, 0);
>> +
>>   	ret = nouveau_cli_create(pdev, "DRM", sizeof(*drm), (void**)&drm);
>>   	if (ret)
>> -		return ret;
>> +		goto fail_cli;
>>
>>   	dev->dev_private = drm;
>>   	drm->dev = dev;
>> @@ -336,6 +350,11 @@ nouveau_drm_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>>
>>   	nouveau_accel_init(drm);
>>   	nouveau_fbcon_init(dev);
>> +
>> +	console_lock();
>> +	do_unblank_screen(1);
>> +	console_unlock();
>> +
>>   	return 0;
>>
>>   fail_dispinit:
>> @@ -351,12 +370,20 @@ fail_ttm:
>>   	nouveau_vga_fini(drm);
>>   fail_device:
>>   	nouveau_cli_destroy(&drm->client);
>> +fail_cli:
>> +	pci_write_config_byte(pdev, NV_PCI_VGAMEM_ENABLE, 1);

This (and corresponding unload line) is a bug: you should NOT blindly 
set this register to 1 on unload, use its previous value instead. 
Otherwise you can get into sticky situations involving two GPUs 
responding to VGA address space. Better yet, think up a proper solution 
involving vga arb.
>> +
>> +	console_lock();
>> +	do_unblank_screen(1);
>> +	console_unlock();
>> +
>>   	return ret;
>>   }
>>
>>   static int
>>   nouveau_drm_unload(struct drm_device *dev)
>>   {
>> +	struct pci_dev *pdev = dev->pdev;
>>   	struct nouveau_drm *drm = nouveau_drm(dev);
>>
>>   	nouveau_fbcon_fini(dev);
>> @@ -375,6 +402,8 @@ nouveau_drm_unload(struct drm_device *dev)
>>   	nouveau_vga_fini(drm);
>>
>>   	nouveau_cli_destroy(&drm->client);
>> +
>> +	pci_write_config_byte(pdev, NV_PCI_VGAMEM_ENABLE, 1);
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> --
>
> What's up with this patch?
>
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