[Filtered!] Re: [Xen-devel] xen and agpgart

[Gerald Britton <gbritton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 06:26:25AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> I'm really interested to know (a) if with the patch X works; (b) if
> not, why not [e.g., crash dump]; (c) if the patch works with Xen, does
> it also work with native Linux (i.e., have I broken the normal case!).

I needed to fix the asm-i386/agp.h wbinvd, as well as one in
arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c  After that, The module loaded, and I tried starting
X.  This resulted in my laptop rebooting (just as my test did).  I setup
netconsole to see if linux logged anything else before dieing:

netconsole: network logging started
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855PM Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 440M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0:
 << X starts here >>
ioperm not fully supported - set iopl to 3
ioperm not fully supported - ignore resource release
ioperm not fully supported - ignore resource release
 << logging to disk loses here >>
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode

So I didn't really learn much.

Ok.  I've mounted / sync in hopes of gaining more logs from X and I
think i've made a little progress (attached are the complete xorg logs from
a native run (with exec-shield disabled, i'm running fedora), and from
within xen.  The last few lines are probably the most interesting:

diff -u xorg.log.native.no-exec-shield xorg.log.xen.agp
 . . .
 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
-(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x42879000
-(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x42879000 to 0x59307000
+(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe10d4000
+(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe10d4000 to 0x44306000
 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe0000000
 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f000201 [AGP 0x8086/0x3340; Card 0x1002/0x4c66]
 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x00000001
 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring handle = 0xd0000000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring mapped at 0x59309000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring read ptr handle = 0xd0101000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring read ptr mapped at 0x5940a000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xd0102000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0x5940b000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART texture map handle = 0xd0302000
-(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART Texture map mapped at 0x5960b000

The +'s are Xen, the -'s are Native.  The line:

 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring handle = 0xd0000000

Is the last line printed in Xen's log.  Which may suggest where it died.
I also noticed the differences in the SAREA addresses.  I have just built
the same Xen kernel for native x86 and tested that.  This seemed to work
fine, X started and I had working 3d acceleration.  The SAREA address here
was a bit closer to what was there before:

2.6.8.1 native -> 2.6.8.1 xen
-(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf8834000
-(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf8834000 to 0x44306000
+(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe10d4000
+(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe10d4000 to 0x44306000

> Gerald: my patch has a better chance of working than yours as I also
> fixed the page-allocation call to definitely return a
> physically-contiguous extent of memory. If it doesn't then I gues
> we'll have to see whether anyone with a serial line can help.

I'll hopefully be able to do some testing on my workstation at work (which
has a serial port), but I might not be able to do that for a week or so as
we're moving offices this week.

                                -- Gerald

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