[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915/mocs: Program MOCS for all engines on init

Peter Antoine peter.antoine at intel.com
Fri Mar 11 14:05:19 UTC 2016


Just seen a documentation error in program_mocs_l3cc_table() still 
documents a parameter that has been removed. Will fix later.

Peter.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Peter Antoine wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Just posted patch that moves to the engine->init_hw().
>
> Have moved the L3CC registers programming out of the function and left in the 
> same place as the original function was. These registers are shared with all 
> engines.
>
> Peter.
>
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:22:58PM +0000, Peter Antoine wrote:
>>> Allow for the MOCS to be programmed for all engines.
>>> Currently we program the MOCS when the first render batch
>>> goes through. This works on most platforms but fails on
>>> platforms that do not run a render batch early,
>>> i.e. headless servers. The patch now programs all initialised engines
>>> on init and the RCS is programmed again within the initial batch. This
>>> is done for predictable consistency with regards to the hardware
>>> context.
>>> 
>>> Hardware context loading sets the values of the MOCS for RCS
>>> and L3CC. Programming them from within the batch makes sure that
>>> the render context is valid, no matter what the previous state of
>>> the saved-context was.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c   |   3 +
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c | 138 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.h |   1 +
>>>  3 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>>> index b854af2..05c9fcb 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>>> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
>>>  #include "i915_vgpu.h"
>>>  #include "i915_trace.h"
>>>  #include "intel_drv.h"
>>> +#include "intel_mocs.h"
>>>  #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
>>>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>>>  #include <linux/swap.h>
>>> @@ -4882,6 +4883,8 @@ i915_gem_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
>>>  			goto out;
>>>  	}
>>> 
>>> +	intel_program_mocs_engines(dev);
>> 
>> Registers to be written when enabling the engine are called from
>> engine->init_hw() in the line above. Please add this state there, which
>> can then be specialised via vfunc if so desired.
>> -Chris
>> 
>> 
>
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