[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 2/2] drm/i915/bxt: don't allow cached GEM mappings on A stepping

Imre Deak imre.deak at intel.com
Fri Aug 14 08:43:30 PDT 2015


Due to a coherency issue on BXT A steppings we can't guarantee a
coherent view of cached (CPU snooped) GPU mappings, so fail such
requests. User space is supposed to fall back to uncached mappings in
this case.

v2:
- limit the WA to A steppings, on later stepping this HW issue is fixed
v3:
- return error instead of trying to work around the issue in kernel,
  since that could confuse user space (Chris)

Testcast: igt/gem_store_dword_batches_loop/cached-mapping
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 407b6b3..95fd4ff 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3742,6 +3742,15 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 		level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
 		break;
 	case I915_CACHING_CACHED:
+		/*
+		 * Due to a HW issue on BXT A stepping, GPU stores via a
+		 * snooped mapping may leave stale data in a corresponding CPU
+		 * cacheline, whereas normally such cachelines would get
+		 * invalidated.
+		 */
+		if (IS_BROXTON(dev) && INTEL_REVID(dev) < BXT_REVID_B0)
+			return -ENODEV;
+
 		level = I915_CACHE_LLC;
 		break;
 	case I915_CACHING_DISPLAY:
-- 
2.1.4



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