[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 09/13] drm/i915/bdw: poll semaphores

[Ben Widawsky]

As Ville points out, it's possible/probable we don't actually need this.
Potentially, this validates the letter of the spec, and not the spirit.

Ville:
> I discussed this on irc w/ Ben, and I was suggesting we don't need to
> poll. Polling apparently can be used as a workaround for certain
> hardware issues, but it looks like those issues shouldn't affect us,
> for the momemnt at least. So my suggestion was to try w/o polling
> first (since there could be some power cost to polling) and add the
> poll bit if problems arise.

Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 31b1f3c..e7748ef 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ gen8_ring_sync(struct intel_ring_buffer *waiter,
 
 	intel_ring_emit(waiter, MI_SEMAPHORE_WAIT |
 				MI_SEMAPHORE_GLOBAL_GTT |
+				MI_SEMAPHORE_POLL |
 				MI_SEMAPHORE_SAD_GTE_SDD);
 	intel_ring_emit(waiter, seqno);
 	intel_ring_emit(waiter,
-- 
1.9.2