On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:27:04PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> A side-effect of commit 7d54a904285b6e780291b91a518267bec5591913
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date: Fri Aug 10 10:18:10 2012 +0100
>
> drm/i915: Apply post-sync write for pipe control invalidates
>
> was that only a request to emit invalidate flush would result in the
> TLB being invalidated (since it requires synchronisation and so incurs a
> performance penalty). However, the stated w/a for hardware contexts is
> that the TLBs must be invalidated prior to a MI_SET_CONTEXT, yet the w/a
> itself did not request the TLBs to be invalidated...
>
> Note this w/a does not prevent the hard system hang I experience when
> using hw contexts (with rc6 enabled) on SNB GT1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
Applied to fixes, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> index b26b592..cd19ecb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ mi_set_context(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
> * itlb_before_ctx_switch.
> */
> if (IS_GEN6(ring->dev) && ring->itlb_before_ctx_switch) {
> - ret = ring->flush(ring, 0, 0);
> + ret = ring->flush(ring, I915_GEM_GPU_DOMAINS, 0);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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