Re: [Nouveau] kernel spew from nouveau/ swiotlb

From: Jerome Glisse
Date: Thu May 10 2018 - 10:31:40 EST


> Greetings,
>
> When box is earning its keep, nouveau/swiotlb grumble.. a LOT. The
> below is from master.today.
>
> [12594.640959] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12594.693000] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12594.713787] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12594.743413] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12594.796740] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12607.000774] swiotlb_tbl_map_single: 54 callbacks suppressed
> [12607.000776] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12607.347941] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> [12608.677038] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 2097152
> bytes)
> homer:/novell/ssh # dmesg|grep 'swiotlb buffer is full'|wc -l
> 2052
> homer:/novell/ssh # dmesg|grep 'callbacks suppressed'|wc -l
> 171
>
> lib/swiotlb.c:
> 573 not_found:
> 574 ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂspin_unlock_irqrestore(&io_tlb_lock, flags);
> 575 ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂif (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN) && printk_ratelimit())
> 576 ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂdev_warn(hwdev, "swiotlb buffer is full (sz: %zd
> bytes)\n", size);
>
> Does nouveau perhaps want one of those DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN thingies?
>

Could you bisect ? I would love to point finger upstream to the DMA
folk who made changes to that API without testing with GPU.

Cheers,
JÃrÃme