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Message-ID: <20090224035643.GA13066@hexapodia.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:56:43 -0800
From:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
To:	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	mjg@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rui.zhang@...el.com, airlied@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [Linux 2.6.29-rc6] [drm:i915_set_status_page] *ERROR* can not ioremap virtual address for G33 hw status page

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:40:36PM +0100, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>:
> > This is a serious regression on this particular hardware, though.
> > We need it fixed before 2.6.29-final, this way or another.
> 
> root@...m:/usr/src/git/linux-2.6# git bisect bad
> 6fb88588555a18792a27f483887fe1f2af5f9c9b is first bad commit
> commit 6fb88588555a18792a27f483887fe1f2af5f9c9b
> Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
> Date:   Mon Feb 23 10:08:21 2009 +1000
> 
>     drm/i915: fix WC mapping in non-GEM i915 code.
> 
>     [airlied - taken from mailing list posting]
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> 
> :040000 040000 94fbea685d2937dbe9f3ef861283724262d8443f
> 451872e14d914a3457adf9c144a705b646d887b4 M      drivers
> 
> Revert this commit helps, and Xwindow works, still (like in previous
> -rc*) I have this message:
> [   16.897361] mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old:
> write-back new: write-combining
> [   16.897369] [drm] MTRR allocation failed
> [   16.897371] .  Graphics performance may suffer.
> [   16.897401] pci 0000:00:02.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
> [   16.897432] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0
> [   16.931100] mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old:
> write-back new: write-combining
> [   17.397378] set status page addr 0x00043000
> 
> but I don't notice any problems.

Same here (Dell E6400).  Reverting 6fb885 gets X working again; I have
"MTRR allocation failed" in dmesg, but performance seems OK.

Oddly, though, 2.6.29-rc6 works just fine on Dell E4300 which appears to
have the same chipset, same PCI id, etc.  On E4300 with -rc6 I see

[    0.895956] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    0.896076] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
[    0.898082] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 32764K stolen memory
[    0.901880] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
[    0.902083] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    0.902247] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    0.902357] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    0.917157] mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
[    0.917327] [drm] MTRR allocation failed
[    0.917328] .  Graphics performance may suffer.
[    0.917551] pci 0000:00:02.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[    0.917564] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0

and X works just fine.

-andy
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