[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Drop support for I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_* execbuf parameters.

Kenneth Graunke kenneth at whitecape.org
Wed Feb 15 02:33:05 UTC 2017


This patch makes the I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_CONSTANTS getparam return 0
(indicating the optional feature is not supported), and makes execbuf
always return -EINVAL if the flags are used.

Apparently, no userspace ever shipped which used this optional feature:
I checked the git history of Mesa, xf86-video-intel, libva, and Beignet,
and there were zero commits showing a use of these flags.  Kernel commit
72bfa19c8deb4 apparently introduced the feature prematurely.

'relative_constants_mode' has always been tracked per-device, but this
has actually been wrong ever since hardware contexts were introduced, as
the INSTPM register is saved (and automatically restored) as part of the
render ring context. The software per-device value could therefore get
out of sync with the hardware per-context value.  This meant that using
them is actually unsafe: a client which tried to use them could damage
the state of other clients, causing the GPU to interpret their BO
offsets as absolute pointers, leading to bogus memory reads.

These flags were also never ported to execlist mode, making them no-ops
on Gen9+ (which requires execlists), and Gen8 in the default mode.

On Gen8+, userspace can write these registers directly, achieving the
same effect.  On Gen6-7.5, it likely makes sense to extend the command
parser to support them.  I don't think anyone wants this on Gen4-5.

Based on a patch by Dave Gordon.

Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon at intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92448
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h            |  2 --
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c            |  2 --
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 50 ++----------------------------
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 309c29c84c54..1a53a4bb09c8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static int i915_getparam(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 		value = !!dev_priv->engine[VCS2];
 		break;
 	case I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_CONSTANTS:
-		value = INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 4;
+		value = 0;
 		break;
 	case I915_PARAM_HAS_LLC:
 		value = HAS_LLC(dev_priv);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 918118a268b8..8a6ba63d3f74 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -2077,8 +2077,6 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
 
 	const struct intel_device_info info;
 
-	int relative_constants_mode;
-
 	void __iomem *regs;
 
 	struct intel_uncore uncore;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 71297920fdf4..c9be0285c7cf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4656,8 +4656,6 @@ i915_gem_load_init(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev_priv->gpu_error.wait_queue);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev_priv->gpu_error.reset_queue);
 
-	dev_priv->relative_constants_mode = I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_GENERAL;
-
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev_priv->pending_flip_queue);
 
 	dev_priv->mm.interruptible = true;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index da0846fe2ad6..dabdeca55fb3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -1414,8 +1414,7 @@ execbuf_submit(struct i915_execbuffer_params *params,
 {
 	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = params->request->i915;
 	u64 exec_start, exec_len;
-	int instp_mode;
-	u32 instp_mask, *cs;
+	u32 *cs;
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_gpu(params->request, vmas);
@@ -1426,54 +1425,11 @@ execbuf_submit(struct i915_execbuffer_params *params,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	instp_mode = args->flags & I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_MASK;
-	instp_mask = I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_MASK;
-	switch (instp_mode) {
-	case I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_GENERAL:
-	case I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_ABSOLUTE:
-	case I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_SURFACE:
-		if (instp_mode != 0 && params->engine->id != RCS) {
-			DRM_DEBUG("non-0 rel constants mode on non-RCS\n");
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
-
-		if (instp_mode != dev_priv->relative_constants_mode) {
-			if (INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->gen < 4) {
-				DRM_DEBUG("no rel constants on pre-gen4\n");
-				return -EINVAL;
-			}
-
-			if (INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->gen > 5 &&
-			    instp_mode == I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_SURFACE) {
-				DRM_DEBUG("rel surface constants mode invalid on gen5+\n");
-				return -EINVAL;
-			}
-
-			/* The HW changed the meaning on this bit on gen6 */
-			if (INTEL_INFO(dev_priv)->gen >= 6)
-				instp_mask &= ~I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_SURFACE;
-		}
-		break;
-	default:
-		DRM_DEBUG("execbuf with unknown constants: %d\n", instp_mode);
+	if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_MASK) {
+		DRM_DEBUG("I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_* unsupported\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (params->engine->id == RCS &&
-	    instp_mode != dev_priv->relative_constants_mode) {
-		cs = intel_ring_begin(params->request, 4);
-		if (IS_ERR(cs))
-			return PTR_ERR(cs);
-
-		*cs++ = MI_NOOP;
-		*cs++ = MI_LOAD_REGISTER_IMM(1);
-		*cs++ = i915_mmio_reg_offset(INSTPM);
-		*cs++ = instp_mask << 16 | instp_mode;
-		intel_ring_advance(params->request, cs);
-
-		dev_priv->relative_constants_mode = instp_mode;
-	}
-
 	if (args->flags & I915_EXEC_GEN7_SOL_RESET) {
 		ret = i915_reset_gen7_sol_offsets(params->request);
 		if (ret)
-- 
2.11.1



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