[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v4 1/8] drm/i915/gen9: Add framework to whitelist specific GPU registers

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Jan 19 01:00:23 PST 2016


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:27:35PM +0000, Arun Siluvery wrote:
> Some of the HW registers are privileged and cannot be written to from
> non-privileged batch buffers coming from userspace unless they are added to
> the HW whitelist. This whitelist is maintained by HW and it is different from
> SW whitelist. Userspace need write access to them to implement preemption
> related WA.
> 
> The reason for using this approach is, the register bits that control
> preemption granularity at the HW level are not context save/restored; so even
> if we set these bits always in kernel they are going to change once the
> context is switched out.  We can consider making them non-privileged by
> default but these registers also contain other chicken bits which should not
> be allowed to be modified.
> 
> In the later revisions controlling bits are save/restored at context level but
> in the existing revisions these are exported via other debug registers and
> should be on the whitelist. This patch adds changes to provide HW with a list
> of registers to be whitelisted. HW checks this list during execution and
> provides access accordingly.
> 
> HW imposes a limit on the number of registers on whitelist and it is
> per-engine.  At this point we are only enabling whitelist for RCS and we don't
> foresee any requirement for other engines.
> 
> The registers to be whitelisted are added using generic workaround list
> mechanism, even these are only enablers for userspace workarounds. But by
> sharing this mechanism we get some test assets without additional cost (Mika).
> 
> v2: rebase
> 
> v3: parameterize RING_FORCE_TO_NONPRIV() as _MMIO() should be limited to
> i915_reg.h (Ville), drop inline for wa_ring_whitelist_reg (Mika).
> 
> v4: improvements suggested by Chris Wilson.
> Clarify that this is HW whitelist and different from the one maintained in
> driver. This list is engine specific but it gets initialized along with other
> WA which is RCS specific thing, so make it clear that we are not doing any
> cross engine setup during initialization.
> Make HW whitelist count of each engine available in debugfs.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Arun Siluvery <arun.siluvery at linux.intel.com>

If you resend just single patches to a series you must --in-reply-to the
individual patch, not the cover letter. Otherwise patchwork won't pick it
up, which means we don't have CI results for this.

Since it's been a while probably best to just resend the entire pile.

Also we seem to be missing r-b tags for the actual w/a changes.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c     | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h         |  9 ++++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h         |  3 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> index e3377ab..7eb002c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> @@ -3229,9 +3229,11 @@ static int i915_wa_registers(struct seq_file *m, void *unused)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	int ret;
> +	struct intel_engine_cs *ring;
>  	struct drm_info_node *node = (struct drm_info_node *) m->private;
>  	struct drm_device *dev = node->minor->dev;
>  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> +	struct i915_workarounds *workarounds = &dev_priv->workarounds;
>  
>  	ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev->struct_mutex);
>  	if (ret)
> @@ -3239,15 +3241,18 @@ static int i915_wa_registers(struct seq_file *m, void *unused)
>  
>  	intel_runtime_pm_get(dev_priv);
>  
> -	seq_printf(m, "Workarounds applied: %d\n", dev_priv->workarounds.count);
> -	for (i = 0; i < dev_priv->workarounds.count; ++i) {
> +	seq_printf(m, "Workarounds applied: %d\n", workarounds->count);
> +	for_each_ring(ring, dev_priv, i)
> +		seq_printf(m, "HW whitelist count for %s: %d\n",
> +			   ring->name, workarounds->hw_whitelist_count[i]);
> +	for (i = 0; i < workarounds->count; ++i) {
>  		i915_reg_t addr;
>  		u32 mask, value, read;
>  		bool ok;
>  
> -		addr = dev_priv->workarounds.reg[i].addr;
> -		mask = dev_priv->workarounds.reg[i].mask;
> -		value = dev_priv->workarounds.reg[i].value;
> +		addr = workarounds->reg[i].addr;
> +		mask = workarounds->reg[i].mask;
> +		value = workarounds->reg[i].value;
>  		read = I915_READ(addr);
>  		ok = (value & mask) == (read & mask);
>  		seq_printf(m, "0x%X: 0x%08X, mask: 0x%08X, read: 0x%08x, status: %s\n",
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 104bd18..83fccc0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1653,11 +1653,18 @@ struct i915_wa_reg {
>  	u32 mask;
>  };
>  
> -#define I915_MAX_WA_REGS 16
> +/*
> + * RING_MAX_NONPRIV_SLOTS is per-engine but at this point we are only
> + * allowing it for RCS as we don't foresee any requirement of having
> + * a whitelist for other engines. When it is really required for
> + * other engines then the limit need to be increased.
> + */
> +#define I915_MAX_WA_REGS (16 + RING_MAX_NONPRIV_SLOTS)
>  
>  struct i915_workarounds {
>  	struct i915_wa_reg reg[I915_MAX_WA_REGS];
>  	u32 count;
> +	u32 hw_whitelist_count[I915_NUM_RINGS];
>  };
>  
>  struct i915_virtual_gpu {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> index 0a98889..7938814 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> @@ -1635,6 +1635,9 @@ enum skl_disp_power_wells {
>  #define   RING_WAIT		(1<<11) /* gen3+, PRBx_CTL */
>  #define   RING_WAIT_SEMAPHORE	(1<<10) /* gen6+ */
>  
> +#define RING_FORCE_TO_NONPRIV(base, i) _MMIO(((base)+0x4D0) + (i)*4)
> +#define   RING_MAX_NONPRIV_SLOTS  12
> +
>  #define GEN7_TLB_RD_ADDR	_MMIO(0x4700)
>  
>  #if 0
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index 4060acf..56af736 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -787,6 +787,22 @@ static int wa_add(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  
>  #define WA_WRITE(addr, val) WA_REG(addr, 0xffffffff, val)
>  
> +static int wa_ring_whitelist_reg(struct intel_engine_cs *ring, i915_reg_t reg)
> +{
> +	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = ring->dev->dev_private;
> +	struct i915_workarounds *wa = &dev_priv->workarounds;
> +	const uint32_t index = wa->hw_whitelist_count[ring->id];
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON(index >= RING_MAX_NONPRIV_SLOTS))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	WA_WRITE(RING_FORCE_TO_NONPRIV(ring->mmio_base, index),
> +		 i915_mmio_reg_offset(reg));
> +	wa->hw_whitelist_count[ring->id]++;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int gen8_init_workarounds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
>  {
>  	struct drm_device *dev = ring->dev;
> @@ -1115,6 +1131,7 @@ int init_workarounds_ring(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
>  	WARN_ON(ring->id != RCS);
>  
>  	dev_priv->workarounds.count = 0;
> +	dev_priv->workarounds.hw_whitelist_count[RCS] = 0;
>  
>  	if (IS_BROADWELL(dev))
>  		return bdw_init_workarounds(ring);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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