[PATCH 2/2] drm/i915/gtt: stop caching the scratch page

Matthew Auld matthew.auld at intel.com
Fri Oct 22 16:48:47 UTC 2021


Normal users shouldn't be hitting this, likely this would indicate a
userspace bug. So don't bother caching, which should be safe now that we
manually flush the page.

Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c
index 8af2f709571c..9966e9dc5218 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/gen8_ppgtt.c
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static int gen8_init_scratch(struct i915_address_space *vm)
 
 	vm->scratch[0]->encode =
 		gen8_pte_encode(px_dma(vm->scratch[0]),
-				I915_CACHE_LLC, pte_flags);
+				I915_CACHE_NONE, pte_flags);
 
 	for (i = 1; i <= vm->top; i++) {
 		struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static int gen8_init_scratch(struct i915_address_space *vm)
 		}
 
 		fill_px(obj, vm->scratch[i - 1]->encode);
-		obj->encode = gen8_pde_encode(px_dma(obj), I915_CACHE_LLC);
+		obj->encode = gen8_pde_encode(px_dma(obj), I915_CACHE_NONE);
 
 		vm->scratch[i] = obj;
 	}
-- 
2.26.3



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