Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Prevent TLB error on first execution on SNB

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:35:41AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:31:04AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:35:59PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> > > Long ago I found that I was getting sporadic errors when booting SNB,
>> > > with the symptom being that the first batch died with IPEHR != *ACTHD,
>> > > typically caused by the TLB being invalid. These magically disappeared
>> > > if I held the forcewake during the entire ring initialisation sequence.
>> > > (It can probably be shortened to a short critical section, but the whole
>> > > initialisation is full of register writes and so we would be taking and
>> > > releasing forcewake almost continually, and so holding it over the
>> > > entire sequence will probably be a net win!)
>> > > 
>> > > Note some of the kernels I encounted the issue already had the deferred
>> > > forcewake release, so it is still relevant.
>> > > 
>> > > I know that there have been a few other reports with similar failure
>> > > conditions on SNB, I think such as
>> > > References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80913
>> > > 
>> > > v2: Wrap i915_gem_init_hw() with its own security blanket as we take
>> > > that path following resume and reset.
>> > > 
>> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > ---
>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>> > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> > > 
>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> > > index 8d15c8110962..08450922f373 100644
>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> > > @@ -4783,6 +4783,9 @@ i915_gem_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
>> > >  	if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen < 6 && !intel_enable_gtt())
>> > >  		return -EIO;
>> > >  
>> > > +	/* Double layer security blanket, see i915_gem_init() */
>> > > +	intel_uncore_forcewake_get(dev_priv, FORCEWAKE_ALL);
>> > > +
>> > >  	if (dev_priv->ellc_size)
>> > >  		I915_WRITE(HSW_IDICR, I915_READ(HSW_IDICR) | IDIHASHMSK(0xf));
>> > >  
>> > > @@ -4815,7 +4818,7 @@ i915_gem_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
>> > >  	for_each_ring(ring, dev_priv, i) {
>> > >  		ret = ring->init_hw(ring);
>> > >  		if (ret)
>> > > -			return ret;
>> > > +			goto out;
>> > >  	}
>> > >  
>> > >  	for (i = 0; i < NUM_L3_SLICES(dev); i++)
>> > > @@ -4832,9 +4835,11 @@ i915_gem_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
>> > >  		DRM_ERROR("Context enable failed %d\n", ret);
>> > >  		i915_gem_cleanup_ringbuffer(dev);
>> > >  
>> > > -		return ret;
>> > > +		goto out;
>> > >  	}
>> > >  
>> > > +out:
>> > > +	intel_uncore_forcewake_put(dev_priv, FORCEWAKE_ALL);
>> > >  	return ret;
>> > >  }
>> > >  
>> > > @@ -4868,6 +4873,14 @@ int i915_gem_init(struct drm_device *dev)
>> > >  		dev_priv->gt.stop_ring = intel_logical_ring_stop;
>> > >  	}
>> > >  
>> > > +	/* This is just a security blanket to placate dragons.
>> > > +	 * On some systems, we very sporadically observe that the first TLBs
>> > > +	 * used by the CS may be stale, despite us poking the TLB reset. If
>> > > +	 * we hold the forcewake during initialisation these problems
>> > > +	 * just magically go away.
>> > > +	 */
>> > > +	intel_uncore_forcewake_get(dev_priv, FORCEWAKE_ALL);
>> > 
>> > gem_init shouldn't ever touch the hw except through gem_init_hw. Do we
>> > really need the double-layer here?
>> 
>> There are register accesses before, so yes since that's how I tested
>> it...
>> 
>> > Also the forcewake hack in the ring
>> > init code should now be redundant, too.
>> 
>> I am of the opinion that they still serve documentary value. Unless you
>> have an assert_force_wake() handy.
>
> Ok, count me convinced.
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
>
> And I guess this is for Jani + cc: stable.

Pushed to drm-intel-fixes, thanks for the patch and review.

BR,
Jani.


> -Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

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