Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Serialise updates to GGTT with access through GGTT on Braswell

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 04:58:41PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > When accessing through the GTT from one CPU whilst concurrently updating
> > > the GGTT PTEs in another thread, the hardware likes to return random
> > > data. As we have strong serialisation prevent us from modifying the PTE
> > > of an active GTT mmapping, we have to conclude that it whilst modifying
> > > other PTE's that error occurs. (I have not looked for any pattern such
> > > as modifying PTE within the same page or cacheline as active PTE -
> > > though checking whether revoking neighbouring objects should be enough
> > > to test that theory.) The corruption also seems restricted to Braswell
> > > and disappears with maxcpus=0. This patch stops all access through the
> > > GTT by other CPUs when we update any PTE by stopping the machine around
> > > the GGTT update.
> > > 
> > > Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blit
> > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89079
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Wild guess, since it wouldn't be the first time hw engineers screwed this
> > up.
> > 
> > Cheers, Daniel
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > index d1c5cf89fe77..de983c8e6e54 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> > @@ -2337,12 +2337,8 @@ int i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
> >  
> >  static void gen8_set_pte(void __iomem *addr, gen8_pte_t pte)
> >  {
> > -#ifdef writeq
> > -	writeq(pte, addr);
> > -#else
> >  	iowrite32((u32)pte, addr);
> >  	iowrite32(pte >> 32, addr + 4);
> > -#endif
> 
> Tried:
>  static void gen8_set_pte(void __iomem *addr, gen8_pte_t pte)
>   {
>   -#ifdef writeq
>   -       writeq(pte, addr);
>   -#else
>   -       iowrite32((u32)pte, addr);
>   -       iowrite32(pte >> 32, addr + 4);
>   -#endif
>   +       iowrite32(0, addr);
>   +       wmb();
>   +       iowrite32(upper_32_bits(pte), addr + 4);
>   +       iowrite32(lower_32_bits(pte), addr);
>   +       wmb();
>    }
>     
> and just the plain iowrite(lower), iowrite(upper), neither helps.

Added a note about this and applied to dinq. Yay for awesome hw.

Thanks, Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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