[PATCH 12/18] drm/i915: try to reset the gpu before unload

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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:39:52PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> paranoia
> 
> For context support the HW expects the default context to always be
> available as there is no way to shut off HW contexts once turned on
> (afaics). This is problematic when unloading the driver as we have no
> way to prevent the GPU from expecting the BO to still be present once
> unloaded.
> 
> The best we can do to remedy the situation is to attempt a GPU reset
> when doing the unload.
> 
> NOTE: this patch isn't *really* required to go with the rest of the
> context serious.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>

I think the paranoia here is justified (albeit it would benefit from some
commit-message love imo). But we do not support i915_reset on all gens, so
I think you need to add a gen >= 5 check here.

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index c1aab45..848cc45 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -3910,6 +3910,9 @@ i915_gem_lastclose(struct drm_device *dev)
>  	ret = i915_gem_idle(dev);
>  	if (ret)
>  		DRM_ERROR("failed to idle hardware: %d\n", ret);
> +	ret = i915_reset(dev, GRDOM_FULL);
> +	if (ret)
> +		DRM_ERROR("failed to reset gpu: %d\n", ret);
>  }
>  
>  static void
> -- 
> 1.7.9.4
> 
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