When PPGTT was disabled by default, the patch also prevented the user
from overriding this behavior via module parameter. Being able to test
this on arbitrary kernels is extremely beneficial to track down the
remaining bugs. The patch that prevented this was:
commit
cfc6e215fe8d1c95a770d30d4874bda733b065a9
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Thu Mar 6 09:40:43 2014 +0100
drm/i915: Disable full ppgtt by default
By default PPGTT is set to -1. 0 means off, 1 means aliasing only, 2
means full, all other values are reserved.
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
/* Full ppgtt disabled by default for now due to issues. */
if (full)
- return false; /* HAS_PPGTT(dev) */
+ return HAS_PPGTT(dev) && (i915.enable_ppgtt == 2);
else
return HAS_ALIASING_PPGTT(dev);
}