[PATCH 3.16 02/99] drm/i915/ringbuffer: Delay after EMIT_INVALIDATE for gen4/gen5

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Apr 02 2019 - 09:49:05 EST


3.16.65-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 55f99bf2a9c331838c981694bc872cd1ec4070b2 upstream.

Exercising the gpu reloc path strenuously revealed an issue where the
updated relocations (from MI_STORE_DWORD_IMM) were not being observed
upon execution. After some experiments with adding pipecontrols (a lot
of pipecontrols (32) as gen4/5 do not have a bit to wait on earlier pipe
controls or even the current on), it was discovered that we merely
needed to delay the EMIT_INVALIDATE by several flushes. It is important
to note that it is the EMIT_INVALIDATE as opposed to the EMIT_FLUSH that
needs the delay as opposed to what one might first expect -- that the
delay is required for the TLB invalidation to take effect (one presumes
to purge any CS buffers) as opposed to a delay after flushing to ensure
the writes have landed before triggering invalidation.

Testcase: igt/gem_tiled_fence_blits
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ville SyrjÃlà <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181105094305.5767-1-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- Use intel_ring_emit() instead of assignments
- Use ring->scratch.gtt_offset instead of i915_ggtt_offset()
- Use (invalidate_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_INSTRUCTION) instead of
(mode & EMIT_INVALIDATE)
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ gen4_render_ring_flush(struct intel_engi
struct drm_device *dev = ring->dev;
u32 cmd;
int ret;
+ int i;

/*
* read/write caches:
@@ -142,12 +143,47 @@ gen4_render_ring_flush(struct intel_engi
(IS_G4X(dev) || IS_GEN5(dev)))
cmd |= MI_INVALIDATE_ISP;

- ret = intel_ring_begin(ring, 2);
+ i = 2;
+ if (invalidate_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_INSTRUCTION)
+ i += 20;
+
+ ret = intel_ring_begin(ring, i);
if (ret)
return ret;

intel_ring_emit(ring, cmd);
- intel_ring_emit(ring, MI_NOOP);
+
+ /*
+ * A random delay to let the CS invalidate take effect? Without this
+ * delay, the GPU relocation path fails as the CS does not see
+ * the updated contents. Just as important, if we apply the flushes
+ * to the EMIT_FLUSH branch (i.e. immediately after the relocation
+ * write and before the invalidate on the next batch), the relocations
+ * still fail. This implies that is a delay following invalidation
+ * that is required to reset the caches as opposed to a delay to
+ * ensure the memory is written.
+ */
+ if (invalidate_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_INSTRUCTION) {
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, GFX_OP_PIPE_CONTROL(4) |
+ PIPE_CONTROL_QW_WRITE);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, ring->scratch.gtt_offset |
+ PIPE_CONTROL_GLOBAL_GTT);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, 0);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, 0);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, MI_FLUSH);
+
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, GFX_OP_PIPE_CONTROL(4) |
+ PIPE_CONTROL_QW_WRITE);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, ring->scratch.gtt_offset |
+ PIPE_CONTROL_GLOBAL_GTT);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, 0);
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, 0);
+ }
+
+ intel_ring_emit(ring, cmd);
+
intel_ring_advance(ring);

return 0;