[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915/execlists: Inhibit context save/restore for the fake preempt context

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Jan 23 21:04:12 UTC 2018


We only use the preempt context to inject an idle point into execlists.
We never need to reference its logical state, so tell the GPU never to
load it or save it.

v2: BIT(2) for save-inhibit.

N.B. Daniele mentioned this bit mbz for ICL, and has been moved into the
submission process rather than the context image.

Suggested-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski at intel.com>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry at intel.com>
Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko at intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 4 ++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 22d471a4228d..c28f267a8417 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -2285,6 +2285,10 @@ populate_lr_context(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
 	if (!engine->default_state)
 		regs[CTX_CONTEXT_CONTROL + 1] |=
 			_MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(CTX_CTRL_ENGINE_CTX_RESTORE_INHIBIT);
+	if (ctx->hw_id == PREEMPT_ID)
+		regs[CTX_CONTEXT_CONTROL + 1] |=
+			_MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(CTX_CTRL_ENGINE_CTX_RESTORE_INHIBIT |
+					   CTX_CTRL_ENGINE_CTX_SAVE_INHIBIT);
 
 	i915_gem_object_unpin_map(ctx_obj);
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
index 6d4f9b995a11..636ced41225d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #define	  CTX_CTRL_INHIBIT_SYN_CTX_SWITCH	(1 << 3)
 #define	  CTX_CTRL_ENGINE_CTX_RESTORE_INHIBIT	(1 << 0)
 #define   CTX_CTRL_RS_CTX_ENABLE                (1 << 1)
+#define	  CTX_CTRL_ENGINE_CTX_SAVE_INHIBIT	(1 << 2)
 #define RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_BUF_BASE(engine)	_MMIO((engine)->mmio_base + 0x370)
 #define RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_BUF_LO(engine, i)	_MMIO((engine)->mmio_base + 0x370 + (i) * 8)
 #define RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_BUF_HI(engine, i)	_MMIO((engine)->mmio_base + 0x370 + (i) * 8 + 4)
-- 
2.15.1



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