[Maverick][ti-omap4][SRU][pull-request] Reduce GFX_FIFO_UNDERFLOW issue while using SGX
Ricardo Salveti
rsalveti at rsalveti.net
Thu Dec 23 04:06:00 UTC 2010
SRU Justification:
Impact: While using SGX acceleration on Pandaboard, it's quite normal to face
the GFX_FIFO_UNDERFLOW issue, that disable the display entirely. The only
way to get the screen back to work is to reset it, or by changing to a text mode
session and then getting back to X11. This issue makes practically impossible
to use and stress the SGX driver on a Full HD monitor.
Fix: While TI still didn't provide a proper way to fix is, a valid
workaround was
proposed to use the writeback buffers for GFX. The proposed patches are all
already applied at Natty's branch, and this is basically a backport of them for
Maverick.
Testcase: Just run Unity using the SGX driver on a Full HD monitor, and try to
use it normally, and your screen will probably get black with the following
message at your dmesg:
[ 404.169006] omapdss DISPC error: GFX_FIFO_UNDERFLOW, disabling GFX
After applying these patches, you should be able to normally use Unity, without
heading into any underflow issue.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653002
The following changes since commit 6aba79f8f85b937596373cda8e266b823395996e:
Ubuntu-2.6.35-903.19 (2010-11-16 18:32:27 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rsalveti/ubuntu-maverick.git
omap4-reduce-underflow-issue
Archit Taneja (2):
OMAP: DSS2: Fix FIFO Threshold calculations for dispc pipelines
OMAP: DSS2: Use Writeback buffers for GFX as a temporary fix
Pavel Nedev (1):
OMAP: DSS2: Fix array size which stores dispc fifo sizes
arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/display.h | 2 +-
drivers/video/omap2/dss/dispc.c | 29 +++++++++++-
drivers/video/omap2/dss/display.c | 25 ++++++----
drivers/video/omap2/dss/dsi.c | 20 ++++++--
drivers/video/omap2/dss/dss.h | 1 +
drivers/video/omap2/dss/wb.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
6 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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