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Visible glitches have been observed when running graphics applications on Linux under Xen hypervisor. Those observations have been confirmed with failures from kms_pwrite_crc Intel GPU test that verifies data coherency of DRM frame buffer objects using hardware CRC checksums calculated by display controllers, exposed to userspace via debugfs. Affected processing paths have then been identified with new IGT test variants that mmap the objects using different methods and caching modes [1]. When running as a Xen PV guest, Linux uses Xen provided PAT configuration which is different from its native one. In particular, Xen specific PTE encoding of write-combining caching, likely used by graphics applications, differs from the Linux default one found among statically defined minimal set of supported modes. Since Xen defines PTE encoding of the WC mode as _PAGE_PAT, it no longer belongs to the minimal set, depends on correct handling of _PAGE_PAT bit, and can be mismatched with write-back caching. When a user calls mmap() for a DRM buffer object, DRM device specific .mmap file operation, called from mmap_region(), takes care of setting PTE encoding bits in a vm_page_prot field of an associated virtual memory area structure. Unfortunately, _PAGE_PAT bit is not preserved when the vma's .vm_flags are then applied to .vm_page_prot via vm_set_page_prot(). Bits to be preserved are determined with _PAGE_CHG_MASK symbol that doesn't cover _PAGE_PAT. As a consequence, WB caching is requested instead of WC when running under Xen (also, WP is silently changed to WT, and UC downgraded to UC_MINUS). When running on bare metal, WC is not affected, but WP and WT extra modes are unintentionally replaced with WC and UC, respectively. WP and WT modes, encoded with _PAGE_PAT bit set, were introduced by commit |
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Linux kernel
============
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.
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.