[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Mark the execlists->active as the primary volatile access

[Chris Wilson]

Since we want to do a lockless read of the current active request, and
that request is written to by process_csb also without serialisation, we
need to instruct gcc to take care in reading the pointer itself.

Otherwise, we have observed execlists_active() to report 0x40.

[ 2400.760381] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479300us : process_csb: rcs0 cs-irq head=3, tail=4
[ 2400.760826] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479303us : process_csb: rcs0 csb[4]: status=0x00000001:0x00000000
[ 2400.761271] igt/para-4098    1..s. 2376479306us : trace_ports: rcs0: promote { b9c59:2622, b9c55:2624 }
[ 2400.761726] igt/para-4097    0d... 2376479311us : __i915_schedule: rcs0: -2147483648->3, inflight:0000000000000040, rq:ffff888208c1e940

which is impossible!

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h | 4 +---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c    | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
index bc3b72bfa9e3..01765a7ec18f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
@@ -100,9 +100,7 @@ execlists_num_ports(const struct intel_engine_execlists * const execlists)
 static inline struct i915_request *
 execlists_active(const struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists)
 {
-	GEM_BUG_ON(execlists->active - execlists->inflight >
-		   execlists_num_ports(execlists));
-	return READ_ONCE(*execlists->active);
+	return *READ_ONCE(execlists->active);
 }
 
 static inline void
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index 062dd8ac472a..4adc6c8d02eb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -2186,6 +2186,10 @@ static void process_csb(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 			while (*execlists->active)
 				execlists_schedule_out(*execlists->active++);
 
+			/* Point active to the new ELSP; prevent overwriting */
+			WRITE_ONCE(execlists->active, execlists->pending);
+			set_timeslice(engine);
+
 			/* switch pending to inflight */
 			GEM_BUG_ON(!assert_pending_valid(execlists, "promote"));
 			execlists->active =
@@ -2194,8 +2198,6 @@ static void process_csb(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 				       execlists_num_ports(execlists) *
 				       sizeof(*execlists->pending));
 
-			set_timeslice(engine);
-
 			WRITE_ONCE(execlists->pending[0], NULL);
 		} else {
 			GEM_BUG_ON(!*execlists->active);
-- 
2.24.0