[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/16] Enabling GEN8 full PPGTT + fixes

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:17:35AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Here be all the patches to make full PPGTT relatively stable on Broadwell. Most
> of the work was actually to the generic PPGTT code, and not BDW specific. There
> are basically 3 fixes:
> 1. Make the error state not horrible, but more work still needed.
> 2. Fix up another tricky from != from case in do_switch
> 3. Generally more graceful handling in ppgtt_release
> 
> 1. Various forms of this subseries have shown up on the list from both
> myself, and Chris (and I feel like Mika, also). For whatever reason,
> none have been merged. I don't necessarily mind missing information, but
> without these patches we can OOPs and GP fault in the error state, which
> is not acceptable.
> 
> 2. The meat of the debugging came here. Essentially this problem has
> already been seen, and solved. The issue is, there is another spot in
> do_switch that can invoke a switch to the default context. We probably
> want to get slightly better handling of this, but for now this solves my
> problems.
> 
> 3. There are 2 categories addressed in this bucket. Reset, and signals.  The
> patches themselves explain the situation. I take a two step approach with this
> where first I make things correct (and slow as heck), and then I do the more
> optimal and trickier solution. Both of these are in line to be replaced by
> Daniel, but I needed something sooner.
> 
> Here is the test case that caught all of the above issues:
> while [ 1 ] ;  do
>         (glxgears) & pid[0]=$!
>         (glxgears) & pid[1]=$!
>         (glxgears) & pid[2]=$!
>         sleep 3
>         kill ${pid[*]}
> done
> 
> 
> Ben Widawsky (16):
>   drm/i915: Split up do_switch
>   drm/i915: Extract l3 remapping out of ctx switch
>   drm/i915/ppgtt: Load address space after mi_set_context
>   drm/i915: Fix another another use-after-free in do_switch
>   drm/i915/ctx: Return earlier on failure
>   drm/i915/error: Check the potential ctx obj's vm
>   drm/i915/error: vma error capture prettyify
>   drm/i915/error: Do a better job of disambiguating VMAs
>   drm/i915/error: Capture vmas instead of BOs
>   drm/i915: Add some extra guards in evict_vm
>   drm/i915: Make an uninterruptible evict
>   drm/i915: Reorder ctx unref on ppgtt cleanup
>   drm/i915: More correct (slower) ppgtt cleanup
>   drm/i915: Defer PPGTT cleanup
>   drm/i915/bdw: Enable full PPGTT
>   drm/i915: Get the error state over the wire (HACKish)

I think we can pull the roughly first 9 patches (already merged one of
them). Just needs someone to do the in-depth review, and preferrably
someone who's looking at the relevant jira ppgtt tasks we're tracking
interannyl. For the changes affecting ppgtt_cleanup I've replied in a
separate mail.
-Daniel

> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c        |   2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h            |  18 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c            | 110 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c    | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c      |  39 +++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |   2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c        |   3 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h        |   4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c      | 157 ++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_sysfs.c          |   2 +-
>  10 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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