This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Don't use BAR mappings for ring buffers with LLC to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-i915-don-t-use-bar-mappings-for-ring-buffers-with-llc.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 85636167e3206c3fbd52254fc432991cc4e90194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:11:01 -0800 Subject: drm/i915: Don't use BAR mappings for ring buffers with LLC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx> commit 85636167e3206c3fbd52254fc432991cc4e90194 upstream. Direction from hardware is that ring buffers should never be mapped via the BAR on systems with LLC. There are too many caching pitfalls due to the way BAR accesses are routed. So it is safest to just not use it. Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 9d80841ea4c9 ("drm/i915: Allow ringbuffers to be bound anywhere") Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.9+ Tested-by: Jouni Högander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230216011101.1909009-3-John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx (cherry picked from commit 65c08339db1ada87afd6cfe7db8e60bb4851d919) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c @@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ int intel_ring_pin(struct intel_ring *ri if (unlikely(ret)) return ret; - if (i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(vma)) + if (i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(vma) && !HAS_LLC(vma->vm->i915)) addr = (void __force *)i915_vma_pin_iomap(vma); else addr = i915_gem_object_pin_map(vma->obj, map); @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ void intel_ring_unpin(struct intel_ring /* Discard any unused bytes beyond that submitted to hw. */ intel_ring_reset(ring, ring->tail); - if (i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(ring->vma)) + if (i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(ring->vma) && !HAS_LLC(ring->vma->vm->i915)) i915_vma_unpin_iomap(ring->vma); else i915_gem_object_unpin_map(ring->vma->obj); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/drm-i915-don-t-use-bar-mappings-for-ring-buffers-with-llc.patch