Bug 58806 - failed to create kernel channel, -12 on G4 PPC
Summary: failed to create kernel channel, -12 on G4 PPC
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: PowerPC Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Nouveau Project
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2012-12-27 14:33 UTC by Stefan de Konink
Modified: 2013-01-11 21:32 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Bisecting between v3.6 and v3.7 (2.96 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-27 14:33 UTC, Stefan de Konink 		no flags Details
dmesg including debugging (75.31 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-27 14:52 UTC, Stefan de Konink 		no flags Details
dmesg for linux 3.6.6 (20.89 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-27 14:57 UTC, Stefan de Konink 		no flags Details
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Description Stefan de Konink 2012-12-27 14:33:41 UTC 
Created attachment 72184 [details]
Bisecting between v3.6 and v3.7

The v3.7 version of nouveau fails to set up acceleration, while it does work for v3.6. We have tried to bisect the problem but stubled on a change we cannot beyond:

git show 77145f1cbdf8d28b46ff8070ca749bad821e0774 -- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c
Comment 1 Stefan de Konink 2012-12-27 14:52:13 UTC 
Created attachment 72185 [details]
dmesg including debugging
Comment 2 Marcin Slusarz 2012-12-27 14:53:47 UTC 
What we found so far:

Acceleration set up fails like that:
Stacktrace:
nouveau_drm_load
nouveau_accel_init
nouveau_channel_new
nouveau_channel_ind
nouveau_channel_prep
nouveau_bo_map
ttm_bo_kmap
ttm_bo_ioremap
ioremap_wc

ioremap_wc returns NULL. bo->mem.bus.base and bo->mem.bus.offset are 0. Probably because of this code:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c;h=a32c492baf5cc15001ad6882dc25a14d1be86419;hb=29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e#l125
and ioremap fails because of this:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c;h=6c856fb8c15b01705fb6cf5ff28c0a232d85d3bd;hb=29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e#l204

Booting with nouveau.agpmode=0 works.
Comment 3 Stefan de Konink 2012-12-27 14:57:06 UTC 
Created attachment 72187 [details]
dmesg for linux 3.6.6
Comment 5 Stefan de Konink 2012-12-31 18:53:52 UTC 
I confirm that the fix works on 3.8-rc1
Comment 6 Marcin Slusarz 2013-01-04 19:46:28 UTC 
This fix just hit Linus' tree.
Comment 7 Florian Mickler 2013-01-11 21:32:39 UTC 
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.8-rc3:

commit eda85d6ad490923152544fba0473798b6cc0edf6
Author: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Date:   Mon Dec 31 03:34:59 2012 +0200

    drm/nouveau: fix init with agpgart-uninorth

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