[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Enable render context support for gen4 (Broadwater to Cantiga)

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Jan 10 10:38:07 UTC 2019


Broadwater and the rest of gen4  do support being able to saving and
reloading context specific registers between contexts, providing isolation
of the basic GPU state (as programmable by userspace). This allows
userspace to assume that the GPU retains their state from one batch to the
next, minimising the amount of state it needs to reload and manually save
across batches.

v2: CONSTANT_BUFFER woes

Running through piglit turned up an interesting issue, a GPU hang inside
the context load. The context image includes the CONSTANT_BUFFER command
that loads an address into a on-gpu buffer, and the context load was
executing that immediately. However, since it was reading from the GTT
there is no guarantee that the GTT retains the same configuration as
when the context was saved, resulting in stray reads and a GPU hang.

Having tried issuing a CONSTANT_BUFFER (to disable the command) from the
ring before saving the context to no avail, we resort to patching out
the instruction inside the context image before loading.

This does impose that gen4 always reissues CONSTANT_BUFFER commands on
each batch, but due to the use of a shared GTT that was and will remain
a requirement.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> #v1
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gpu_commands.h |  3 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
index f89b8f199e3f..88109e0de051 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ __intel_engine_context_size(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u8 class)
 			return round_up(GEN6_CXT_TOTAL_SIZE(cxt_size) * 64,
 					PAGE_SIZE);
 		case 5:
+		case 4:
 			/*
 			 * There is a discrepancy here between the size reported
 			 * by the register and the size of the context layout
@@ -235,7 +236,6 @@ __intel_engine_context_size(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, u8 class)
 					 cxt_size * 64,
 					 cxt_size - 1);
 			return round_up(cxt_size * 64, PAGE_SIZE);
-		case 4:
 		case 3:
 		case 2:
 		/* For the special day when i810 gets merged. */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gpu_commands.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gpu_commands.h
index 105e2a9e874a..00c0175c37ed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gpu_commands.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gpu_commands.h
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@
 #define GFX_OP_3DSTATE_BINDING_TABLE_EDIT_PS \
 	((0x3<<29)|(0x3<<27)|(0x0<<24)|(0x47<<16))
 
+#define GFX_OP_CONSTANT_BUFFER \
+	(0x3 << 29 | 0x0 << 27 | 0x0 << 24 | 0x2 << 16)
+
 #define MFX_WAIT  ((0x3<<29)|(0x1<<27)|(0x0<<16))
 
 #define COLOR_BLT     ((0x2<<29)|(0x40<<22))
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 889f3de79dd0..21bd71cf2e94 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1632,6 +1632,8 @@ static inline int mi_set_context(struct i915_request *rq, u32 flags)
 		len += 2 + (num_rings ? 4*num_rings + 6 : 0);
 	else if (IS_GEN(i915, 5))
 		len += 2;
+	else if (IS_GEN(i915, 4))
+		len += 4;
 	if (flags & MI_FORCE_RESTORE) {
 		GEM_BUG_ON(flags & MI_RESTORE_INHIBIT);
 		flags &= ~MI_FORCE_RESTORE;
@@ -1668,6 +1670,21 @@ static inline int mi_set_context(struct i915_request *rq, u32 flags)
 		 * this should never take effect and so be a no-op!
 		 */
 		*cs++ = MI_SUSPEND_FLUSH | MI_SUSPEND_FLUSH_EN;
+	} else if (IS_GEN(i915, 4)) {
+		/*
+		 * Disable CONSTANT_BUFFER before it is loaded from the context
+		 * image. For as it is loaded, it is executed and the stored
+		 * address may no longer be valid, leading to a GPU hang.
+		 *
+		 * This imposes the requirement that userspace reload their
+		 * CONSTANT_BUFFER on every batch, fortunately a requirement
+		 * they are already accustomed to from before contexts were
+		 * enabled.
+		 */
+		*cs++ = MI_STORE_DWORD_IMM_GEN4 | MI_USE_GGTT;
+		*cs++ = 0;
+		*cs++ = i915_ggtt_offset(rq->hw_context->state) + 0x1d4;
+		*cs++ = GFX_OP_CONSTANT_BUFFER; /* inactive */
 	}
 
 	if (force_restore) {
-- 
2.20.1



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