[Intel-gfx] [DMC_BUGFIX_SKL_V2 1/5] drm/i915/skl: Added a check for the hardware status of csr fw before loading.

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Aug 26 06:10:12 PDT 2015


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:36:05AM +0530, Animesh Manna wrote:
> Dmc will restore the csr program except DC9, cold boot,
> warm reset, PCI function level reset, and hibernate/suspend.
> 
> intel_csr_load_program() function is used to load the firmware
> data from kernel memory to csr address space.
> 
> All values of csr address space will be zero if it got reset and
> the first byte of csr program is always a non-zero if firmware
> is loaded successfuly. Based on hardware status will load the
> firmware.
> 
> Without this condition check if we overwrite the firmware data the
> counters exposed for dc5/dc6 (help for debugging) will be nullified.
> 
> v1: Initial version.
> 
> v2: Based on review comments from Daniel,
> - Added a check to know hardware status and load the firmware if not loaded.
> 
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau at intel.com>
> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> Cc: Sunil Kamath <sunil.kamath at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Animesh Manna <animesh.manna at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vathsala Nagaraju <vathsala.nagaraju at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> index ba1ae03..682cc26 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> @@ -252,6 +252,15 @@ void intel_csr_load_program(struct drm_device *dev)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Dmc will restore the csr the program except DC9, cold boot,
> +	 * warm reset, PCI function level reset, and hibernate/suspend.
> +	 * This condition will help to check if csr address space is reset/
> +	 * not loaded.
> +	 */

Atm we call this from driver load and resume, which doesn seem to cover
all the cases you mention in the comment. Should this be a WARN_ON
instead? Or do we have troubles in our init sequence where we load too
many times?

Either way I can't reconcile your commit message with the comment here.
-Daniel

> +	if (I915_READ(CSR_PROGRAM_BASE))
> +		return;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->csr_lock);
>  	fw_size = dev_priv->csr.dmc_fw_size;
>  	for (i = 0; i < fw_size; i++)
> -- 
> 2.0.2
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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