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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2009-09-10 17:48:48 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-10-05 09:32:12 -0700
commit7abf3aa8294d95e3f0be375f30e8d933f874ada0 (patch)
tree7e80a110c328a13e6ec26f9cd54c93791fa1c814 /arch
parent522bb748440e5765e6f73b417544f821e27940a9 (diff)
agp/intel: Fix the pre-9xx chipset flush.
commit e517a5e97080bbe52857bd0d7df9b66602d53c4d upstream. Ever since we enabled GEM, the pre-9xx chipsets (particularly 865) have had serious stability issues. Back in May a wbinvd was added to the DRM to work around much of the problem. Some failure remained -- easily visible by dragging a window around on an X -retro desktop, or by looking at bugzilla. The chipset flush was on the right track -- hitting the right amount of memory, and it appears to be the only way to flush on these chipsets, but the flush page was mapped uncached. As a result, the writes trying to clear the writeback cache ended up bypassing the cache, and not flushing anything! The wbinvd would flush out other writeback data and often cause the data we wanted to get flushed, but not always. By removing the setting of the page to UC and instead just clflushing the data we write to try to flush it, we get the desired behavior with no wbinvd. This exports clflush_cache_range(), which was laying around and happened to basically match the code I was otherwise going to copy from the DRM. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index e245775ec856..fbb46d62ee5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ void clflush_cache_range(void *vaddr, unsigned int size)
mb();
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clflush_cache_range);
static void __cpa_flush_all(void *arg)
{