On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Shuah Khan <shuahk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> init:
>>
>> Does the attached patch stop them? It basically skips all initialization of
>> the DMA ring on your system. What I don't understand is why you still get
>> them with the previous patch, but not with
>> 909d9eb67f1e4e39f2ea88e96bde03d560cde3eb reverted.
>> 909d9eb67f1e4e39f2ea88e96bde03d560cde3eb only affects the use of the DMA
>> ring for buffer migration and the patch I previously attached disables the
>> use of the DMA ring for buffer migration. Does the latest batch of
>> drm-fixes from Dave that Linus just merged help?
>>
>> Alex
>
> Will try your latest patch. Will also try the latest git - I am
> currently on Jan 17th. However, in the meantime, I found that these
> messages might not be new and getting printed now with the
> eaaa6983ab2ccdf826c90838eb584211e0cadb76 [PATCH] drm/radeon: print dma
> status reg on lockup (v2) commit that introduced debug messages in
> r600_gpu_soft_reset(). I couldn't revert this commit, but doing a
> compile with these messages commented out. Will update you on the
> results and then test the new git
>
> -- Shuah
Here is what I tried:
1. Applied your latest disable_dma_ring_on_6xx-2.diff and still see messages.
2. Tried intel_iommu=igfx_off to see if that changes anything. The
reason for trying this option is, I noticed this message: (this is not
a new message, I see this all the time)
[ 1.337112] DMAR: Disabling IOMMU for graphics on this chipset
No change with or without option - still see the same messages.
Next steps:
1. One big difference between 3.7 and 3.8 is in the
r600_gpu_soft_reset() - I started with 3.7 to see the differences if
any of these differences is causing this to be logged. In 3.7
r600_gpu_soft_reset() is called with no reset_mask. I am going to
first verify if softreset happens on 3.7. Does this give you any ideas
of whether this could cause a problem?
2. Another angle I am looking at is the newly added
dev_info(rdev->dev, " R_00D034_DMA_STATUS_REG = 0x%08X\n",
RREG32(DMA_STATUS_REG));
messages in r600_gpu_soft_reset_dma().
Could it be that these newly added debug messages are now showing this
old condition that always existed on my test system. From what I have
observed so far, this is very likely.
Please let me know if you want to me try anything else or if you don't
think these steps won't help.
-- Shuah
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