[Intel-gfx] Possible i915 regression with 4.4-rc

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:06:59PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Could also be down to certain objects getting their contents
> > discarded when evicted (due to not being marked dirty), for which I
> > posted a fix "Always mark GEM objects as dirty when written by the
> > CPU" a few days ago?
> 
> Grasping at straws?

On reflection, rather than the object->dirty patch, you want

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem
_gtt.c
index 1f7e6b9df45d..033df035a066 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ static void cleanup_page_dma(struct drm_device *dev, struct 
i915_page_dma *p)
 
 static void *kmap_page_dma(struct i915_page_dma *p)
 {
+       set_page_dirty(p->page);
        return kmap_atomic(p->page);
 }
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre