On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 02:15:27PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> Previously with commit a9c1f90c8e17
> ("drm/i915: Don't mask EI UP interrupt on IVB|SNB") certain,
> seemingly unrelated bit (GEN6_PM_RP_UP_EI_EXPIRED) was needed
> to be unmasked for IVB and SNB in order to prevent system hang
> with chained batchbuffers.
>
> Our CI was seeing incomplete results with tests that used
> chained batches and it was found out that HSW needs to have this
> same bit unmasked to reliably survive chained batches.
>
> Always unmask GEN6_PM_RP_UP_EI_EXPIRED on Haswell to
> prevent system hang with batch chaining.
>
> Testcase: igt/gem_exec_fence/nb-await-default
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100672
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx>
* facepalm.
I am amazed that took so long for us to notice.
Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Did we ever get a w/a identifier for this?
-Chris
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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre