The below is mainly an educated guess at what's going on, docs would
sure be handy... NVIDIA? :P
It appears it's possible for a ctxprog to run even while a GPU exception
is pending. The GF8 and up ctxprogs appear to have a small snippet of
code which detects this, and stalls the ctxprog until it's been handled,
which essentially looks like:
if (r2 & 0x00008000) {
r0 |= 0x80000000;
while (r0 & 0x80000000) {}
}
I don't know of any way that flag would get cleared unless the driver
intervenes (and indeed, in the cases I've seen the hang, nothing steps
in to automagically clear it for us). This patch causes the driver to
clear the flag during the PGRAPH IRQ handler.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
This adds a drm/kms staging non-API stable driver for GPUs from NVIDIA.
This driver is a KMS-based driver and requires a compatible nouveau
userspace libdrm and nouveau X.org driver.
This driver requires firmware files not available in this kernel tree,
interested parties can find them via the nouveau project git archive.
This driver is reverse engineered, and is in no way supported by nVidia.
Support for nearly the complete range of nvidia hw from nv04->g80 (nv50)
is available, and the kms driver should support driving nearly all
output types (displayport is under development still) along with supporting
suspend/resume.
This work is all from the upstream nouveau project found at
nouveau.freedesktop.org.
The original authors list from nouveau git tree is:
Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com>
Marcin Kościelnicki <koriakin@0x04.net>
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Matt Parnell <mparnell@gmail.com>
Patrice Mandin <patmandin@gmail.com>
Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
along with project founder Stephane Marchesin <marchesin@icps.u-strasbg.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
