[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915/ringbuffer: EMIT_INVALIDATE *before* switch context

[Chris Wilson]

Despite what I think the prm recommends, commit f2253bd9859b
("drm/i915/ringbuffer: EMIT_INVALIDATE after switch context") turned out
to be a huge mistake when enabling Ironlake contexts as the GPU would
hang on either a MI_FLUSH or PIPE_CONTROL immediately following the
MI_SET_CONTEXT of an active mesa context (more vanilla contexts, e.g.
simple rendercopies with igt, do not suffer).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 26b7274a2d43..035b88b32ca7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1866,12 +1866,12 @@ static int ring_request_alloc(struct i915_request *request)
 	 */
 	request->reserved_space += LEGACY_REQUEST_SIZE;
 
-	ret = switch_context(request);
+	/* Unconditionally invalidate GPU caches and TLBs. */
+	ret = request->engine->emit_flush(request, EMIT_INVALIDATE);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	/* Unconditionally invalidate GPU caches and TLBs. */
-	ret = request->engine->emit_flush(request, EMIT_INVALIDATE);
+	ret = switch_context(request);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-- 
2.20.1