On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:41:48PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tigerlake, we are seeing a repeat of commit d8f505311717 ("drm/i915/icl:
> Forcibly evict stale csb entries") where, presumably, due to a missing
> Global Observation Point synchronisation, the write pointer of the CSB
> ringbuffer is updated _prior_ to the contents of the ringbuffer. That is
> we see the GPU report more context-switch entries for us to parse, but
> those entries have not been written, leading us to process stale events,
> and eventually report a hung GPU.
>
> However, this effect appears to be much more severe than we previously
> saw on Icelake (though it might be best if we try the same approach
> there as well and measure), and Bruce suggested the good idea of resetting
> the CSB entry after use so that we can detect when it has been updated by
> the GPU. By instrumenting how long that may be, we can set a reliable
> upper bound for how long we should wait for:
>
> 513 late, avg of 61 retries (590 ns), max of 1061 retries (10099 ns)
>
> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2045
> References: d8f505311717 ("drm/i915/icl: Forcibly evict stale csb entries")
What does "References:" mean? Should that be "Fixes:"?
thanks,
greg k-h
