On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:14:15 +0200 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Adding relevant mailing lists. > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: > > I'm just about to create a patch for full PAT support in the Linux > > kernel, including Xen. For this purpose I introduce a translation > > between cache modes and pte bits. > > > > Scanning the kernel sources for usage of the cache mode bits in the > > pte I discovered drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h is using > > _PAGE_PCD, _PAGE_PWT and _PAGE_PAT. I think those defines are used > > to create ptes not for usage by the main processor, but for the > > graphics processor. Is this true? In this case I'd suggest to define > > i915-specific macros instead of using the x86 ones. > > Yeah, those are gpu specific PAT tables, but the hw engineers > specifically designed this to match, and we've tried to follow the cpu > side to match it. Especially in the future that will be somewhat > important, since we want to fully share the entire address space > between cpu and gpu on the next platform. Jesse is working on that. Right, we have an x86 compatible MMU in the GPU itself, so re-using the defines makes sense. I suppose with your work you'll move them and make them a bit more opaque? If so, we'll still want a way to get at them directly, or access your mapping functions for generating PTE bits for the GPU MMU. Thanks, -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
