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

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On 11/17/2015 08:37 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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.

I thought Ville explained how this wasn't necessary?

Jesse
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