This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/i915: Force the CS stall for invalidate flushes to the 3.10-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-force-the-cs-stall-for-invalidate-flushes.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From add284a3a2481e759d6bec35f6444c32c8ddc383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:44:32 +0000 Subject: drm/i915: Force the CS stall for invalidate flushes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit add284a3a2481e759d6bec35f6444c32c8ddc383 upstream. In order to act as a full command barrier by itself, we need to tell the pipecontrol to actually stall the command streamer while the flush runs. We require the full command barrier before operations like MI_SET_CONTEXT, which currently rely on a prior invalidate flush. References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83677 Cc: Simon Farnsworth <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ gen7_render_ring_flush(struct intel_ring flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_QW_WRITE; flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_GLOBAL_GTT_IVB; + flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_STALL_AT_SCOREBOARD; + /* Workaround: we must issue a pipe_control with CS-stall bit * set before a pipe_control command that has the state cache * invalidate bit set. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/drm-i915-invalidate-media-caches-on-gen7.patch queue-3.10/drm-i915-force-the-cs-stall-for-invalidate-flushes.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