[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch RFC] ttm: nouveau accelerated on Xen pv-ops kernel
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/18/2010 02:09:08 AM: > >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@xxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/16/2010 >> > 01:21:35 PM: >> > >> >> > > > And my X log ends abruptly after this line: >> >> > > > (II) NOUVEAU(0): Opened GPU Channel 1 >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Any ideas? >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > Well, this is generally the symptom that someone is confusing > mfns >> > and >> >> > > pfns, and therefore ends up incorrectly setting the _PAGE_IO flag > in >> > >> >> > > some pte. If you run it under strace, can you identify which >> > mapping >> >> > > the fault is happening in? >> >> > >> >> > I've attached the output of 'strace -o strace-Xorg Xorg'. Figuring >> > out >> >> > which mapping the fault is happening in is a little over my head, > I'm >> >> > afraid. If you need different arguments to strace, let me know and >> > I'll >> >> > do it again. >> >> >> >> So just to be sure, you took the 2.6.32 (xen/next or >> >> xen/stable-2.6.32.x), copied the include and nouveu directory from > ..? >> >> 2.6.33? and then ran this. >> > >> > I actually took a slightly more sadistic route than Arvind... ;-) A > while >> > back, I backported the important stuff from the Nouveau kernel git > tree >> > back to v2.6.31. Basically guessed at which commits were important, > wrote >> > a script to cherry pick each and every one, and spent an entire day >> > reading commit logs, resolving conflicts, and figuring out which other >> > non-drm commits I needed. Sounds retarded, I know, but it was a > pretty >> > interesting way to get myself up to speed with the code base. The >> > resulting 2.6.31-nouveau kernel runs like a champ on all my hardware. >> > >> > Then I merged that into my clone of Jeremy's xen/master which I use > with >> > Xen 3.4.2. >> > >> > Since then, I've been periodically cherry picking all new commits off > the >> > nouveau tree. Also had to rebuild Xorg 7.5 to use xorg-server 1.7.5, > new >> > libdrm, mesa, and xf86-video-nouveau all from their respective git > trees >> > as of yesterday. (drm and xf86-video-nouveau are on their master >> > branches, mesa is on the 7.8 branch) >> > >> > This all works great using xen/master bare metal. It used to work > fine on >> > my old GeForce2 MX based systems in Xen. Arvind's patch made it work > on >> > my nice new systems in Xen, but broke it on the old ones. Everything >> > still works fine bare metal. >> > >> >> Did you have to edit your xorg.conf file or >> >> it ran just fine? >> > >> > Well, I had to create an xorg.conf that looks like this: >> > >> > Section "Device" >> > Identifier "foo" >> > Driver "nouveau" >> > EndSection >> > >> > Otherwise it uses the 'nv' driver... and I haven't stumbled onto how > to >> > get nouveau to automatically get used (aside from uninstalling the nv >> > driver). >> > >> > >> >> Was this Fedora 13 or Fedora 12? >> > >> > This is all being done on a custom 32bit Linux distro that we use for > our >> > tightly configuration controlled system deliveries. It was fedora > based a >> > looooooooong time ago (FC5), but is completely unrecognizable now. >> > >> > >> >> Arvind explanation about the Nvidia driver pointed out that the > NVidia >> >> driver (drm/nouvue) can operate on different channels. Where channel > 1 >> >> is the framebuffer, and the other are for well, KMS, and other >> >> applications. >> >> >> >> I belive I was looking at the wrong section of the drivers (not the >> >> drivers/video/gpu ones)- this certainly looks to be the issues the >> >> Jeremy mentioned. >> >> >> >> Also I would suggest you load drm with the debug variable set to the > 255 >> >> to get most of what his happening. >> > >> > I'll try that. >> > >> > >> >> Based on your strace, the last call is: >> >> 4000) = 0x9324000 >> >> write(0, "(II) NOUVEAU(0): Opened GPU chan"..., 38) = 38 >> >> ioctl(11, 0xc0106445, 0x930a908) = 0 >> >> ioctl(11, 0x400c6444, 0xbfd2a210) = 0 >> >> +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ >> >> >> >> I cannot find what 0x45 is in the upstream Linux, so you must be > using a >> >> different nouv* driver than that. The 0x44 is: >> >> >> >> DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_NOUVEAU_GEM_INFO, nouveau_gem_ioctl_info, > DRM_AUTH), >> >> >> >> Which looks to be pretty harmless. I presume it is the next thing > (using >> >> the address returned) that the X driver tries to do that makes it go >> > boom. >> > >> I suspect that the ioctl is prior to a modeset operation. And the >> mode-setting is 'booming'. >> My kernel config has VGA console built-in fbcon as a module and I do >> a switch to >> nouveaufb at runlevel 2. Also note that the default modeset >> parameter is -1 and >> if VGA-CONSOLE is enabled, then modeset is set to 0 in the driver >> initialisation >> - which maybe the problem. Do you have modeset=1 as module parameter? > > I wasn't setting any module params for nouveau. Adding 'options nouveau > modeset=1' to modprobe.conf didn't seem to make any difference. > > I've got the following in my .config: > > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_FB=y > CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > CONFIG_FB_EFI=y > CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m > CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y > CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT=y > - EMBEDDED - this will enable VGA_CONSOLE selection. Set sub-menu choices as needed - VGA_CONSOLE builtin - FB as module - FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE as a module. Enables late loading of nouveau * Foll. required to avoid cfb_copyarea, cfb_fillrectangle, cfb_imageblit linking problems with out-of-tree nouveau builds - FB_VGA16 as module - supported by all nVidia cards. or - FB_NVIDIA as module - only works for older cards. For out-of-tree nouveau builds, DO NOT select ANY accelerated drivers - that would enable the old in-tree DRM. New TTM / DRM modulesare in the new driver/gpu tree. For in-tree builds, if nouveau is NOT in the initrd-image, system will boot on vga console > > How do you force the nouveaufb switch at runlevel 2? My screen obviously > switches into KMS mode while udev is starting up. You can switch to the accelerated framebuffer console by modprobe nouveau modprobe fbcon fbcon will take-over console from the built-in VGA. See Documenation/fb/fbcon.txt If multiple fb loaded, echo 0/1 to /sys/devices/virtual/vtconsole/vtconX/bind to unbind/bind fbs and switch - if it is possible (or leave you without a console) If the old nvidiafb is loaded, nouveau cannot install (and vice-versa) BTW, are you sure the older cards support accelerated modes? Channel 1 is the console channel and unaccelerated X uses only that. AIGLX will start up channel 2, and if X is gallium-enabled, channel 3 will start. libGL apps will start new channels (upto what the card supports - which varies). I assume the patch does NOT affect unaccelerated X on the older cards? Whats funny is that, in all my traces, X never opens channel 1 - it is already opened by the console and all X has to do (using ioctls) is to do is a kernel-modeset, if native console and X are in different modes (I've not been able to get the native console to a lower resolution (got very comfortable with the higher res. meanwhile!)). Xorg used to hang saying 'Opened Channel 2' and not 1. Late switching will maybe enable you to get traces _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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