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Message-ID: <4DA68FBB.4030807@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:10:03 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3
On 04/13/2011 07:07 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>> Okay, staring at this, it definitely seems toxic to overlay the GART
>> over memory areas reserved by the BIOS. If I were to guess, I would say
>> that the problem here seems to be that the kernel thinks it is
>> overlaying 64 MiB of memory, but the actual GART is in fact 512 MiB in
>> size -- 131072 CPU pages -- which now overlaps the BIOS reserved areas.
>>
>> Alex D., could you comment on the "num cpu pages" bit?
>
> These are not CPU addresses. I think we've stated that already. Not the
> droids.
>
> the num cpu pages is how many CPU pages would be needed to fill the GPU
> GTT, for those crazy cases where CPU pagesize != GPU pagesize.
>
OK, well, something is still weird.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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