drm/i915: Workaround to avoid lite restore with HEAD==TAIL

mthierry · jnikula · commit 53292cdb0669 · 2015-04-23T23:56:52.000+03:00
WaIdleLiteRestore is an execlists-only workaround, and requires the driver
to ensure that any context always has HEAD!=TAIL when attempting lite
restore.

Add two extra MI_NOOP instructions at the end of each request, but keep
the requests tail pointing before the MI_NOOPs. We may not need to
executed them, and this is why request-&gt;tail is sampled before adding
these extra instructions.

If we submit a context to the ELSP which has previously been submitted,
move the tail pointer past the MI_NOOPs. This ensures HEAD!=TAIL.

v2: Move overallocation to gen8_emit_request, and added note about
sampling request-&gt;tail in commit message (Chris).

v3: Remove redundant request-&gt;tail assignment in __i915_add_request, in
lrc mode this is already set in execlists_context_queue.
Do not add wa implementation details inside gem (Chris).

v4: Apply the wa whenever the req has been resubmitted and update
comment (Chris).

Cc: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Daniel &lt;thomas.daniel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michel Thierry &lt;michel.thierry@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2377,10 +2377,11 @@ int __i915_add_request(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 		ret = ring->add_request(ring);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
+
+		request->tail = intel_ring_get_tail(ringbuf);
 	}
 
 	request->head = request_start;
-	request->tail = intel_ring_get_tail(ringbuf);
 
 	/* Whilst this request exists, batch_obj will be on the
 	 * active_list, and so will hold the active reference. Only when this
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -393,6 +393,26 @@ static void execlists_context_unqueue(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (IS_GEN8(ring->dev) || IS_GEN9(ring->dev)) {
+		/*
+		 * WaIdleLiteRestore: make sure we never cause a lite
+		 * restore with HEAD==TAIL
+		 */
+		if (req0 && req0->elsp_submitted) {
+			/*
+			 * Apply the wa NOOPS to prevent ring:HEAD == req:TAIL
+			 * as we resubmit the request. See gen8_emit_request()
+			 * for where we prepare the padding after the end of the
+			 * request.
+			 */
+			struct intel_ringbuffer *ringbuf;
+
+			ringbuf = req0->ctx->engine[ring->id].ringbuf;
+			req0->tail += 8;
+			req0->tail &= ringbuf->size - 1;
+		}
+	}
+
 	WARN_ON(req1 && req1->elsp_submitted);
 
 	execlists_submit_contexts(ring, req0->ctx, req0->tail,
@@ -1315,7 +1335,12 @@ static int gen8_emit_request(struct intel_ringbuffer *ringbuf,
 	u32 cmd;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = intel_logical_ring_begin(ringbuf, request->ctx, 6);
+	/*
+	 * Reserve space for 2 NOOPs at the end of each request to be
+	 * used as a workaround for not being allowed to do lite
+	 * restore with HEAD==TAIL (WaIdleLiteRestore).
+	 */
+	ret = intel_logical_ring_begin(ringbuf, request->ctx, 8);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
@@ -1333,6 +1358,14 @@ static int gen8_emit_request(struct intel_ringbuffer *ringbuf,
 	intel_logical_ring_emit(ringbuf, MI_NOOP);
 	intel_logical_ring_advance_and_submit(ringbuf, request->ctx, request);
 
+	/*
+	 * Here we add two extra NOOPs as padding to avoid
+	 * lite restore of a context with HEAD==TAIL.
+	 */
+	intel_logical_ring_emit(ringbuf, MI_NOOP);
+	intel_logical_ring_emit(ringbuf, MI_NOOP);
+	intel_logical_ring_advance(ringbuf);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
