[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/6] drm/i915: Remove BXT incoherent seqno write workaround

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Jan 23 13:05:57 UTC 2017


This w/a was only used for preproduction hw, which is no longer in use.
Remove the workaround to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 17 -----------------
 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 8ffa4961aa40..202ce1e6e499 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -1638,21 +1638,6 @@ static int gen8_emit_flush_render(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void bxt_a_seqno_barrier(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
-{
-	/*
-	 * On BXT A steppings there is a HW coherency issue whereby the
-	 * MI_STORE_DATA_IMM storing the completed request's seqno
-	 * occasionally doesn't invalidate the CPU cache. Work around this by
-	 * clflushing the corresponding cacheline whenever the caller wants
-	 * the coherency to be guaranteed. Note that this cacheline is known
-	 * to be clean at this point, since we only write it in
-	 * bxt_a_set_seqno(), where we also do a clflush after the write. So
-	 * this clflush in practice becomes an invalidate operation.
-	 */
-	intel_flush_status_page(engine, I915_GEM_HWS_INDEX);
-}
-
 /*
  * Reserve space for 2 NOOPs at the end of each request to be
  * used as a workaround for not being allowed to do lite
@@ -1800,8 +1785,6 @@ logical_ring_default_vfuncs(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	engine->irq_enable = gen8_logical_ring_enable_irq;
 	engine->irq_disable = gen8_logical_ring_disable_irq;
 	engine->emit_bb_start = gen8_emit_bb_start;
-	if (IS_BXT_REVID(engine->i915, 0, BXT_REVID_A1))
-		engine->irq_seqno_barrier = bxt_a_seqno_barrier;
 }
 
 static inline void
-- 
2.11.0



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