[PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Disable semaphores by default on SNB

From: Keith Packard
Date: Mon Dec 26 2011 - 20:08:03 EST


Semaphores still cause problems on some machines:

> From Udo Steinberg:
>
> With Linux-3.2-rc6 I'm frequently seeing GPU hangs when large amounts of
> text scroll in an xterm, such as when extracting a tar archive. Such as this
> one (note the timestamps):
>
> I can reproduce it fairly easily with something
> as simple as:
>
> while true; do dmesg; done

This patch turns them off on SNB while leaving them on for IVB.

Reported-by: Udo Steinberg <udo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index c681dc1..b9da890 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -756,9 +756,9 @@ intel_enable_semaphores(struct drm_device *dev)
if (i915_semaphores >= 0)
return i915_semaphores;

- /* Enable semaphores on SNB when IO remapping is off */
+ /* Disable semaphores on SNB */
if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen == 6)
- return !intel_iommu_enabled;
+ return 0;

return 1;
}
--
1.7.7.3

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