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            <b><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEEDINFO "
   title="NEEDINFO --- - [gm45 regression] [drm:init_ring_common]: *ERROR* render ring initialization failed"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554#c22">Comment # 22</a>
              on <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEEDINFO "
   title="NEEDINFO --- - [gm45 regression] [drm:init_ring_common]: *ERROR* render ring initialization failed"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554">bug 76554</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:chris@chris-wilson.co.uk" title="Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Chris Wilson</span></a>
</span></b>
        <pre>One more random rearrangement that should apply on top of that branch:

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 602432eaf346..bbcd6b5446f3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -456,9 +456,9 @@ static bool stop_ring(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
         }
     }

+    I915_WRITE_CTL(ring, 0);
     I915_WRITE_HEAD(ring, 0);
     ring->write_tail(ring, 0);
-    I915_WRITE_CTL(ring, 0);

     if (!IS_GEN2(ring->dev)) {
         (void)I915_READ_CTL(ring);
@@ -513,18 +513,19 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer
*ring)
     I915_WRITE_CTL(ring,
             ((ring->size - PAGE_SIZE) & RING_NR_PAGES)
             | RING_VALID);
+    I915_WRITE_HEAD(ring, 0);
+    ring->write_tail(ring, 0);

     /* If the head is still not zero, the ring is dead */
     if (wait_for((I915_READ_CTL(ring) & RING_VALID) != 0 &&
              I915_READ_START(ring) == i915_gem_obj_ggtt_offset(obj) &&
              (I915_READ_HEAD(ring) & HEAD_ADDR) == 0, 50)) {
         DRM_ERROR("%s initialization failed "
-                "ctl %08x head %08x tail %08x start %08x\n",
-                ring->name,
-                I915_READ_CTL(ring),
-                I915_READ_HEAD(ring),
-                I915_READ_TAIL(ring),
-                I915_READ_START(ring));
+              "ctl %08x (valid? %d) head %08x tail %08x start %08x [expected
%08x]\n",
+              ring->name,
+              I915_READ_CTL(ring), I915_READ_CTL(ring) & RING_VALID,
+              I915_READ_HEAD(ring), I915_READ_TAIL(ring),
+              I915_READ_START(ring), i915_gem_obj_ggtt_offset(obj));
         ret = -EIO;
         goto out;
     }

You may also want to cherry-pick ec9da60002b2390a3932db36d61d1d4e30c4ee21 from
the <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEEDINFO "
   title="NEEDINFO --- - [gm45 regression] [drm:init_ring_common]: *ERROR* render ring initialization failed"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=76554">bug76554</a> branch to prevent uxa from freezing.</pre>
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