[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Skip clearing the GGTT on full-ppgtt systems

[Chris Wilson]

Under full-ppgtt, access to the global GTT is carefully regulated
through hardware functions (i.e. userspace cannot read and write to
arbitrary locations in the GGTT via the GPU). With this restriction in
place, we can forgo clearing stale entries from the GGTT as they will
not be accessed.

For aliasing-ppgtt, we could almost do the same except that we do allow
userspace access to the global-GTT via execbuf in order to workraound
some quirks of certain instructions. (This execbuf path is filtered out
with EINVAL on full-ppgtt.)

The most dramatic effect this will have will be during resume, as with
full-ppgtt the GGTT is only used sparingly.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: David Weinehall <david.weinehall at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
index 319f3b459b3e..7eab619a3eb2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -2477,6 +2477,13 @@ static void gen6_ggtt_insert_entries(struct i915_address_space *vm,
 	assert_rpm_atomic_end(dev_priv, rpm_atomic_seq);
 }
 
+static void nop_clear_range(struct i915_address_space *vm,
+			    uint64_t start,
+			    uint64_t length,
+			    bool use_scratch)
+{
+}
+
 static void gen8_ggtt_clear_range(struct i915_address_space *vm,
 				  uint64_t start,
 				  uint64_t length,
@@ -3072,14 +3079,17 @@ static int gen8_gmch_probe(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
 
 	ret = ggtt_probe_common(dev, ggtt->size);
 
-	ggtt->base.clear_range = gen8_ggtt_clear_range;
-	if (IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv))
-		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries__BKL;
-	else
-		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries;
 	ggtt->base.bind_vma = ggtt_bind_vma;
 	ggtt->base.unbind_vma = ggtt_unbind_vma;
 
+	ggtt->base.clear_range = nop_clear_range;
+	if (!USES_FULL_PPGTT(dev_priv))
+		ggtt->base.clear_range = gen8_ggtt_clear_range;
+
+	ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries;
+	if (IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv))
+		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries__BKL;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
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