[PATCH 3.16 025/357] drm/i915: read HEAD register back in init_ring_common() to enforce ordering

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

commit ece4a17d237a79f63fbfaf3f724a12b6d500555c upstream.

Withtout this, ring initialization fails reliabily during resume with

	[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 head ffffff8804 tail 00000000 start 000e4000

This is not a complete fix, but it is verified to make the ring
initialization failures during resume much less likely.

We were not able to root-cause this bug (likely HW-specific to Gen4 chips)
yet. This is therefore used as a ducttape before problem is fully
understood and proper fix created, so that people don't suffer from
completely unusable systems in the meantime.

The discussion and debugging is happening at

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel
 	else
 		ring_setup_phys_status_page(ring);
 
+	/* Enforce ordering by reading HEAD register back */
+	I915_READ_HEAD(ring);
+
 	/* Initialize the ring. This must happen _after_ we've cleared the ring
 	 * registers with the above sequence (the readback of the HEAD registers
 	 * also enforces ordering), otherwise the hw might lose the new ring


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