[PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Flush all user surfaces prior to first use

[Chris Wilson]

Since userspace has the ability to bypass the CPU cache from within its
unpriviledged command stream, we have to flush the CPU cache to memory
in order to overwrite the previous contents on creation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: stablevger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c | 26 ++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
index d2a1158868e7..f752b326d399 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
@@ -459,7 +459,6 @@ i915_gem_object_create_shmem(struct drm_i915_private *i915, u64 size)
 {
 	struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
-	unsigned int cache_level;
 	gfp_t mask;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -498,24 +497,13 @@ i915_gem_object_create_shmem(struct drm_i915_private *i915, u64 size)
 	obj->write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
 	obj->read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
 
-	if (HAS_LLC(i915))
-		/* On some devices, we can have the GPU use the LLC (the CPU
-		 * cache) for about a 10% performance improvement
-		 * compared to uncached.  Graphics requests other than
-		 * display scanout are coherent with the CPU in
-		 * accessing this cache.  This means in this mode we
-		 * don't need to clflush on the CPU side, and on the
-		 * GPU side we only need to flush internal caches to
-		 * get data visible to the CPU.
-		 *
-		 * However, we maintain the display planes as UC, and so
-		 * need to rebind when first used as such.
-		 */
-		cache_level = I915_CACHE_LLC;
-	else
-		cache_level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
-
-	i915_gem_object_set_cache_coherency(obj, cache_level);
+	/*
+	 * Note that userspace has control over cache-bypass
+	 * via its command stream, so even on LLC architectures
+	 * we have to flush out the CPU cache to memory to
+	 * clear previous contents.
+	 */
+	i915_gem_object_set_cache_coherency(obj, I915_CACHE_NONE);
 
 	trace_i915_gem_object_create(obj);
 
-- 
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