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Given that we are now reasonably confident in our ability to detect and reserve the stolen memory (physical memory reserved for graphics by the BIOS) for ourselves on most machines, we can put it to use. In this case, we need a page to hold the overlay registers. On an i915g running MythTv, H Buus noticed that commit6a2c4232ecAuthor: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Tue Nov 4 04:51:40 2014 -0800 drm/i915: Make the physical object coherent with GTT introduced stuttering into his video playback. After discarding the likely suspect of it being the physical cursor updates, we were left with the use of the phys object for the overlay. And lo, if we completely avoid using the phys object (allocated just once on module load!) by switching to stolen memory, the stuttering goes away. For lack of a better explanation, claim victory and kill two birds with one stone. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107600 Fixes:6a2c4232ec("drm/i915: Make the physical object coherent with GTT") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180906190144.1272-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk (cherry picked from commitc8124d3992) Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.