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

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:08:47PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 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?

Ville can't repro, Chris claims it fixes something, I don't have a
system. We probably should dig into this more, but since I didn't see
anything going on I figured I can just pull it in for now.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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