Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Flag the execlists context object as dirty after every use

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On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:59:19PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Everytime we use the logical context with execlists it becomes dirty (as
>> the hardware will write the new register values afterwards, as well as
>> the GPU state that will be used). We need to then flag the context as
>> dirty everytime since after a swap-out/swap-in cycle the dirty flag will
>> be cleared, and a further swap-out cycle will then loose the most recent
>> GPU state.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Yay for reinventing active tracking I guess, legacy hw ctx has this
> already. Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

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

BR,
Jani.

> -Daniel
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
>> index 138964afd187..41cfa6fa909d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
>> @@ -1013,6 +1013,8 @@ static int intel_lr_context_pin(struct drm_i915_gem_request *rq)
>>  		ret = intel_pin_and_map_ringbuffer_obj(ring->dev, ringbuf);
>>  		if (ret)
>>  			goto unpin_ctx_obj;
>> +
>> +		ctx_obj->dirty = true;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	return ret;
>> -- 
>> 2.5.0
>> 
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