[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Update WaFlushCoherentL3CacheLinesAtContextSwitch

[Dave Gordon]

On 03/07/15 16:42, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:27:31PM +0100, Arun Siluvery wrote:
>> In this WA we need to set GEN8_L3SQCREG4[21:21] and reset it after PIPE_CONTROL
>> instruction but there is a slight complication as this is applied in WA batch
>> where the values are only initialized once.
>> Dave identified an issue with the current implementation where the register value
>> is read once at the beginning and it is reused; this patch corrects this by saving
>> the register value to memory, update register with the bit of our interest and
>> restore it back with original value.
>>
>> This implementation uses MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM which is currently only used
>> by command parser and was using a default length of 0. This is now updated
>> with correct length and moved to appropriate place.
>>
>> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arun Siluvery <arun.siluvery at linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c |  6 +--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h        |  3 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c       | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>   3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> index 306d9e4..430571b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static const struct drm_i915_cmd_descriptor common_cmds[] = {
>>   			.mask = MI_GLOBAL_GTT,
>>   			.expected = 0,
>>   	      }},						       ),
>> -	CMD(  MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM,             SMI,   !F,  0xFF,   W | B,
>> +	CMD(  MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(1),             SMI,   !F,  0xFF,   W | B,
>>   	      .reg = { .offset = 1, .mask = 0x007FFFFC },
>>   	      .bits = {{
>>   			.offset = 0,
>> @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static bool check_cmd(const struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
>>   			 * only MI_LOAD_REGISTER_IMM commands.
>>   			 */
>>   			if (reg_addr == OACONTROL) {
>> -				if (desc->cmd.value == MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM) {
>> +				if (desc->cmd.value == MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(1)) {
>
> I had a double take here, but it all comes out in the wash. For one
> moment, I thought the cmd matching had changed, but that has the length
> masked out.
>
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at cris-wilson.co.uk>
>
> Who will start to complain about all the extra frequent register writes,
> probably into common power wells....
> -Chris

Hmm ... that is quite confusing, especially as the actual opcode in the 
instruction stream will be MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(2) on GEN8+. It might 
almost be better to use MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(0) to emphasise that the 
length field is a wildcard and not something that will be matched exactly.

.Dave.