This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Add intel_ring_cachline_align() to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-i915-add-intel_ring_cachline_align.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 753b1ad4a281b0663329409d410243e91825c323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:52:05 +0200 Subject: drm/i915: Add intel_ring_cachline_align() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 753b1ad4a281b0663329409d410243e91825c323 upstream. intel_ring_cachline_align() emits MI_NOOPs until the ring tail is aligned to a cacheline boundary. Cc: Bjoern C <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandru DAMIAN <alexandru.damian@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Enrico Tagliavini <enrico.tagliavini@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c @@ -1655,6 +1655,27 @@ int intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_b return 0; } +/* Align the ring tail to a cacheline boundary */ +int intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring) +{ + int num_dwords = (64 - (ring->tail & 63)) / sizeof(uint32_t); + int ret; + + if (num_dwords == 0) + return 0; + + ret = intel_ring_begin(ring, num_dwords); + if (ret) + return ret; + + while (num_dwords--) + intel_ring_emit(ring, MI_NOOP); + + intel_ring_advance(ring); + + return 0; +} + void intel_ring_init_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 seqno) { struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = ring->dev->dev_private; --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ intel_write_status_page(struct intel_rin void intel_cleanup_ring_buffer(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring); int __must_check intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, int n); +int __must_check intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring); static inline void intel_ring_emit(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 data) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/drm-i915-add-intel_ring_cachline_align.patch queue-3.13/drm-i915-prevent-mi_display_flip-straddling-two-cachelines-on-ivb.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html