Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Only force GGTT coherency w/a on required chipsets

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 08:59:31AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Not all chipsets have an internal buffer delaying the visibility of
> writes via the GGTT being visible by other physical paths, but we use a
> very heavy workaround for all. We only need to apply that workarounds to
> the chipsets we know suffer from the delay and the resulting coherency
> issue.
> 
> Similarly, the same inconsistent coherency fouls up our ABI promise that
> a write into a mmap_gtt is immediately visible to others. Since the HW
> has made that a lie, let userspace know when that contract is broken.
> (Not that userspace would want to use mmap_gtt on those chipsets for
> other performance reasons...)
> 
> Testcase: igt/drv_selftest/live_coherency
> Testcase: igt/gem_mmap_gtt/coherency
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100587
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c          |  3 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c          |  5 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c          | 10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h |  1 +
>  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h              | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> index f8cfd16be534..18a45e7a3d7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> @@ -441,6 +441,9 @@ static int i915_getparam_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>  	case I915_PARAM_CS_TIMESTAMP_FREQUENCY:
>  		value = 1000 * INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->cs_timestamp_frequency_khz;
>  		break;
> +	case I915_PARAM_MMAP_GTT_COHERENT:
> +		value = INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->has_coherent_ggtt;
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		DRM_DEBUG("Unknown parameter %d\n", param->param);
>  		return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index fcc73a6ab503..8b52cb768a67 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -802,6 +802,11 @@ void i915_gem_flush_ggtt_writes(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>  	 * that was!).
>  	 */
>  
> +	wmb();
> +
> +	if (INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->has_coherent_ggtt)
> +		return;
> +
>  	i915_gem_chipset_flush(dev_priv);
>  
>  	intel_runtime_pm_get(dev_priv);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> index 6a4d1388ad2d..e443fe44da3a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@

? These macros make me sad sometimes. Increase the context size a bit
for this one?

>  	.unfenced_needs_alignment = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING, \
>  	.has_snoop = true, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = false, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PIPEOFFSETS, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES, \
>  	CURSOR_OFFSETS
> @@ -110,6 +111,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_i865g_info = {
>  	.has_gmch_display = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING, \
>  	.has_snoop = true, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = true, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PIPEOFFSETS, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES, \
>  	CURSOR_OFFSETS
> @@ -117,6 +119,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_i865g_info = {
>  static const struct intel_device_info intel_i915g_info = {
>  	GEN3_FEATURES,
>  	PLATFORM(INTEL_I915G),
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = false,
>  	.cursor_needs_physical = 1,
>  	.has_overlay = 1, .overlay_needs_physical = 1,
>  	.hws_needs_physical = 1,
> @@ -178,6 +181,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_pineview_info = {
>  	.has_gmch_display = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING, \
>  	.has_snoop = true, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = true, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PIPEOFFSETS, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES, \
>  	CURSOR_OFFSETS
> @@ -220,6 +224,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_gm45_info = {
>  	.has_hotplug = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING | BSD_RING, \
>  	.has_snoop = true, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = true, \
>  	/* ilk does support rc6, but we do not implement [power] contexts */ \
>  	.has_rc6 = 0, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PIPEOFFSETS, \
> @@ -243,6 +248,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_ironlake_m_info = {
>  	.has_hotplug = 1, \
>  	.has_fbc = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING | BSD_RING | BLT_RING, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = true, \
>  	.has_llc = 1, \
>  	.has_rc6 = 1, \
>  	.has_rc6p = 1, \
> @@ -287,6 +293,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_sandybridge_m_gt2_info = {
>  	.has_hotplug = 1, \
>  	.has_fbc = 1, \
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING | BSD_RING | BLT_RING, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = true, \
>  	.has_llc = 1, \
>  	.has_rc6 = 1, \
>  	.has_rc6p = 1, \
> @@ -347,6 +354,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_valleyview_info = {
>  	.has_aliasing_ppgtt = 1,
>  	.has_full_ppgtt = 1,
>  	.has_snoop = true,
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = false,
>  	.ring_mask = RENDER_RING | BSD_RING | BLT_RING,
>  	.display_mmio_offset = VLV_DISPLAY_BASE,
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES,
> @@ -441,6 +449,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_cherryview_info = {
>  	.has_full_ppgtt = 1,
>  	.has_reset_engine = 1,
>  	.has_snoop = true,
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = false,
>  	.display_mmio_offset = VLV_DISPLAY_BASE,
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES,
>  	GEN_CHV_PIPEOFFSETS,
> @@ -517,6 +526,7 @@ static const struct intel_device_info intel_skylake_gt4_info = {
>  	.has_full_48bit_ppgtt = 1, \
>  	.has_reset_engine = 1, \
>  	.has_snoop = true, \
> +	.has_coherent_ggtt = false, \
>  	.has_ipc = 1, \
>  	GEN9_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZES, \
>  	GEN_DEFAULT_PIPEOFFSETS, \
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h
> index 633f9fbf72ea..07e8364d1a8c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.h
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ enum intel_platform {
>  	func(has_resource_streamer); \
>  	func(has_runtime_pm); \
>  	func(has_snoop); \
> +	func(has_coherent_ggtt); \
>  	func(unfenced_needs_alignment); \
>  	func(cursor_needs_physical); \
>  	func(hws_needs_physical); \
> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> index 7f5634ce8e88..8ee81e6f151c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> @@ -529,6 +529,28 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_irq_wait {
>   */
>  #define I915_PARAM_CS_TIMESTAMP_FREQUENCY 51
>  
> +/*
> + * Once upon a time we supposed that writes through the GGTT would be
> + * immediately in physical memory (once flushed out of the CPU path). However,
> + * on a few different processors and chipsets, this is not necessarily the case
> + * as the writes appear to be buffered internally. Thus a read of the backing
> + * storage (physical memory) via a different path (with different physical tags
> + * to the indirect write via the GGTT) will see stale values from before
> + * the GGTT write. Inside the kernel, we can for the most part keep track of
> + * the different read/write domains in use (e.g. set-domain), but the assumption
> + * of coherency is baked into the ABI, hence reporting its true state in this
> + * parameter.
> + *
> + * If set to true, writes via mmap_gtt are immediately visible following an
> + * lfence to flush the WCB.
> + *
> + * If set to false, writes via mmap_gtt are indeterminatnly delayed in an in
> + * internal buffer and are _not_ immediately visible to third parties accessing
> + * directly via mmap_cpu/mmap_wc. Use of mmap_gtt as part of an IPC
> + * communications channel when set to false is strongly disadvised.
> + */
> +#define I915_PARAM_MMAP_GTT_COHERENT	52
> +
>  typedef struct drm_i915_getparam {
>  	__s32 param;
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.18.0
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel
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