Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Initialize seqno for VECS too

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 04:53:03PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65387
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67198
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > index 10c2aaa..665602f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > @@ -1592,6 +1592,8 @@ void intel_ring_init_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 seqno)
> >  	if (INTEL_INFO(ring->dev)->gen >= 6) {
> >  		I915_WRITE(RING_SYNC_0(ring->mmio_base), 0);
> >  		I915_WRITE(RING_SYNC_1(ring->mmio_base), 0);
> > +		if (HAS_VEBOX(ring->dev))
> > +			I915_WRITE(RING_SYNC_2(ring->mmio_base), 0);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	ring->set_seqno(ring, seqno);
> 
> We require n-1 mailboxes for proper semaphore synchronization. All
> semaphore synchronization code relies on proper values in these
> mailboxes. The fact that we failed to touch the vebox ring by itself was
> unlikely to be an issue since the HW should be initializing the values
> to 0. However the error framework for testing seqno wrap introduced by
> Mika, in addition to the hangcheck via seqno, and
> i915_error_first_batchbuffer() combined caused a nice explosion.
> 
> The problem is caused by seqno wrap because the wrap condition is not
> properly setup. The wrap code attempts to set the sync mailboxes all to
> 0, and then set the current seqno to one less than 0. In all cases, the
> vebox mailbox wasn't properly being initialized. This caused a wrap to
> not occur. When hangcheck kicks in with the bogus seqno values, the rest
> just doesn't work. It makes me wonder if we shouldn't consider a dumber
> version of hangcheck...
> 
> How we messed this up:
> VECS support was written before the aforementioned other features. Upon
> VECS being rebased, these facts were missed.

Both patches applied, thanks.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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