RE: [Bug 10843] Display artifacts on XOrg logout with PAT kernel and VESA framebuffer

Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
from 2.6.25. Please verify if it still should be listed.

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10843
Subject : Display artifacts on XOrg logout with PAT kernel and VESA
framebuffer
Submitter : Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
Date : 2008-05-31 14:04 (15 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/7/206

Yes. See also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/13/159

Frans, With or with out pat, in the recent kernels (like 2.6.26-rc4/rc5 etc), ioremap()
uses UC- and PCI mmap of /sys/devices/pci.../resource (used by X) uses UC-

And fb_mmap() also uses UC-.

It's interesting that you don't see this artifact with "nopat". Essentially with
or with out pat enabled, we use the same memory attributes. So depending on the
MTRR setup (set by X server), effective memory attribute across different mappings
should be same (which is UC- or WC with mtrr).

Can you also check, if there is any impact with kernel boot param for vesafb "mtrr:3"?

thanks,
suresh
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