[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 11/12] drm/i915: Track the previous pinned context inside the request

[Chris Wilson]

As the contexts are accessed by the hardware until the switch is completed
to a new context, the hardware may still be writing to the context object
after the breadcrumb is visible. We must not unpin/unbind/prune that
object whilst still active and so we keep the previous context pinned until
the following request. If we move this tracking onto the request, we can
simplify the code and enable freeing of the request without the
struct_mutex in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h  | 11 +++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index c0a6fbff4678..ff1aa7363ab6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -2302,6 +2302,17 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_request {
 	struct intel_context *ctx;
 	struct intel_ringbuffer *ringbuf;
 
+	/**
+	 * Context related to the previous request.
+	 * As the contexts are accessed by the hardware until the switch is
+	 * completed to a new context, the hardware may still be writing
+	 * to the context object after the breadcrumb is visible. We must
+	 * not unpin/unbind/prune that object whilst still active and so
+	 * we keep the previous context pinned until the following (this)
+	 * request is retired.
+	 */
+	struct intel_context *previous_context;
+
 	/** Batch buffer related to this request if any (used for
 	    error state dump only) */
 	struct drm_i915_gem_object *batch_obj;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 2910866611b2..68382e05f720 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -788,12 +788,14 @@ intel_logical_ring_advance_and_submit(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request)
 	if (intel_engine_stopped(engine))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (engine->last_context != request->ctx) {
-		if (engine->last_context)
-			intel_lr_context_unpin(engine->last_context, engine);
-		intel_lr_context_pin(request->ctx, engine);
-		engine->last_context = request->ctx;
-	}
+	/* We keep the previous context alive until we retire the following
+	 * request. This ensures that any the context object is still pinned
+	 * for any residual writes the HW makes into it on the context switch
+	 * into the next object following the breadcrumb. Otherwise, we may
+	 * retire the context too early.
+	 */
+	request->previous_context = engine->last_context;
+	engine->last_context = request->ctx;
 
 	if (dev_priv->guc.execbuf_client)
 		i915_guc_submit(dev_priv->guc.execbuf_client, request);
@@ -1015,7 +1017,8 @@ void intel_execlists_retire_requests(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	spin_unlock_bh(&engine->execlist_lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(req, tmp, &retired_list, execlist_link) {
-		intel_lr_context_unpin(req->ctx, engine);
+		if (req->previous_context)
+			intel_lr_context_unpin(req->previous_context, engine);
 
 		list_del(&req->execlist_link);
 		i915_gem_request_unreference(req);
-- 
2.8.0.rc3