On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:18:08PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On 17-02-27 17:12:07, Rodrigo Vivi wrote: > >Many screen corruptions and hangs in the past were somehow > >related to the caches. In many situations forcing the uncached > >was useful at least to narrow down the issue by confirming it > >was cache related. > > > >Instead of having to hardcode it everytime that we suspect on > >this table let's provide a mechanism to disable these > >cache leves on this private table (PPAT). > > > >Cc: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widaw...@intel.com> > >Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospu...@intel.com> > >Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.v...@intel.com> > > I think this is a cool idea, it could equally be achieved by modifying the PTE > encoding function. In my head, modifying the pte encode makes more sense since > it applies to all legacy context, advanced context, and ggtt entries.
Changing the mocs table is not the same as changing the PTE. Both are useful for different types of bugs. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
