[Nouveau] [PATCH 0/2] drm/nouveau: Two more fixes

[Ben Skeggs]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 00:36, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> I messed up the ordering of patches in my tree a bit, so these two fixes
> got separated from the others. I don't consider these particularily
> urgent because the crash that the first one fixes only happens on gp10b
> which we don't enable by default yet and the second patch fixes a crash
> that only happens on module unload (or driver unbind, more accurately),
> which isn't a terribly common thing to do.
>
> I'll be sending out fixes shortly to make the GP10B work more properly
> on a wider range of Jetson TX2 devices and enable it by default.
>
> One thing to mention is that I'm not exactly sure if the first patch is
> the right thing to do. I haven't seen any issues after that change, but
> I'm also not exactly sure I understand what BAR2 is used for, so I don't
> know if I would've even covered those code paths (other than the one
> causing the crash at probe time) in my tests.
BAR2 on dGPUs is used to map kernel-level GPU objects in VRAM so they
can be accessed by the driver.  It's pretty much a smaller version of
BAR1, but intended for a different purpose.

On dGPUs, there's a couple of places (fault buffer address, and fault
method buffer on volta) where the GPU wants PRI regs to be poked with
an offset within BAR2 rather than an aperture+offset combination.  I'm
not 100% sure what Tegra parts do here, but presumably if it's working
for you, they're happy to just accept a system memory address instead.

I guess this would be the right thing to do here in that situation.
The more obvious (from a "reading the code" POV) thing to do would be
to write Tegra-specific versions of the functions that use
nvkm_memory_bar2() to perform this mapping, and use nvkm_memory_addr()
instead but I'm not sure if we need/want to go to that effort.  It's
conceivable it could be required at some point.

Ben.

>
> It'd be great to get Lyude's feedback on the second patch, since that
> call to pci_disable_device() was rather oddly placed and I'm not sure if
> that was essential for things to work or whether the slightly different
> point in time where it's called after this patch is also okay. It looks
> to me like it should work fine, but I don't currently have a way to test
> this on desktop GPUs.
>
> Thierry
>
> Thierry Reding (2):
>   drm/nouveau: tegra: Fix NULL pointer dereference
>   drm/nouveau: tegra: Do not try to disable PCI device
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c         |  3 +-
>  .../drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/instmem/gk20a.c   | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.23.0
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nouveau mailing list
> Nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau