On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:32:42PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote: > > We may only start to set up the new register values after having > > confirmed that the ring is truely off. Otherwise the hw might lose the > > newly written register values. This is caught later on in the init > > sequence, when we check whether the register writes have stuck. > > With or without (up to you) the comment clarification discussed in IRC, > > Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> I'll fixup the comment when applying, but for reference the new proposal is: "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 register values." Thanks for the review. -Daniel > > > > > > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org Bugzilla: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50522 Tested-by: Yang > > Guang <guang.a.yang at intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter > > <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | > > 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c index bf0195a..5b19917 > > 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c +++ > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c @@ -289,8 +289,6 @@ static > > int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring) > > I915_WRITE_HEAD(ring, 0); ring->write_tail(ring, 0); > > > > - /* Initialize the ring. */ - I915_WRITE_START(ring, > > obj->gtt_offset); head = I915_READ_HEAD(ring) & HEAD_ADDR; > > > > /* G45 ring initialization fails to reset head to zero */ @@ > > -316,6 +314,10 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct > > intel_ring_buffer *ring) } } > > > > + /* Initialize the ring. This must happen _after_ we have confirmed > > that + * the ring is off (with the above head == 0 check), > > otherwise the hw + * might lose the new ring register values. */ + > > I915_WRITE_START(ring, obj->gtt_offset); I915_WRITE_CTL(ring, > > ((ring->size - PAGE_SIZE) & RING_NR_PAGES) | RING_VALID); -- 1.7.10.4 > > > > _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list > > Intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx -- Daniel Vetter Mail: daniel at ffwll.ch Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48
