From 6927faf30920b8c03dfa007e732642a1f1f20089 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Niehusmann Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:24:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: fix memory corruption with GM965 and >4GB RAM On a Thinkpad x61s, I noticed some memory corruption when plugging/unplugging the external VGA connection. The symptoms are that 4 bytes at the beginning of a page get overwritten by zeroes. The address of the corruption varies when rebooting the machine, but stays constant while it's running (so it's possible to repeatedly write some data and then corrupt it again by plugging the cable). Further investigation revealed that the corrupted address is (dev_priv->status_page_dmah->busaddr & 0xffffffff), ie. the beginning of the hardware status page of the i965 graphics card, cut to 32 bits. So it seems that for some memory access, the hardware uses only 32 bit addressing. If the hardware status page is located >4GB, this corrupts unrelated memory. Signed-off-by: Jan Niehusmann Acked-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson Cc: stable@kernel.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c index 17bd766..e33d9be 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c @@ -1895,6 +1895,17 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags) if (IS_GEN2(dev)) dma_set_coherent_mask(&dev->pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(30)); + /* 965GM sometimes incorrectly writes to hardware status page (HWS) + * using 32bit addressing, overwriting memory if HWS is located + * above 4GB. + * + * The documentation also mentions an issue with undefined + * behaviour if any general state is accessed within a page above 4GB, + * which also needs to be handled carefully. + */ + if (IS_BROADWATER(dev) || IS_CRESTLINE(dev)) + dma_set_coherent_mask(&dev->pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32)); + mmio_bar = IS_GEN2(dev) ? 1 : 0; dev_priv->regs = pci_iomap(dev->pdev, mmio_bar, 0); if (!dev_priv->regs) { -- 2.7.4