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drm/i915: Dynamic Parity Detection handling
On IVB hardware we are given an interrupt whenever a L3 parity error occurs in the L3 cache. The L3 cache is used by internal GPU clients only. This is a very rare occurrence (in fact to test this I need to use specially instrumented silicon). When a row in the L3 cache detects a parity error the HW generates an interrupt. The interrupt is masked in GTIMR until we get a chance to read some registers and alert userspace via a uevent. With this information userspace can use a sysfs interface (follow-up patch) to remap those rows. Way above my level of understanding, but if a given row fails, it is statistically more likely to fail again than a row which has not failed. Therefore it is desirable for an operating system to maintain a lifelong list of failing rows and always remap any bad rows on driver load. Hardware limits the number of rows that are remappable per bank/subbank, and should more than that many rows detect parity errors, software should maintain a list of the most frequent errors, and remap those rows. V2: Drop WARN_ON(IS_GEN6) (Jesse) DRM_DEBUG row/bank/subbank on errror (Jesse) Comment updates (Jesse) Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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