[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/execlists: Workaround switching back to a completed context

[Chris Wilson]

In what seems remarkably similar to the w/a required to not reload an
idle context with HEAD==TAIL, it appears we must prevent the HW from
switching to an idle context in ELSP[1], while simultaneously trying to
preempt the HW to run another context and a continuation of the idle
context (which is no longer idle).

We can achieve this by preventing the context from completing while we
reload a new ELSP (by applying ring_set_paused(1) across the whole of
dequeue), except this eventually fails due to a lite-restore into a
waiting semaphore does not generate an ACK. Instead, we try to avoid
making the GPU do anything too challenging and not submit a new ELSP
while the interrupts + CSB events appear to have fallen behind the
completed contexts. We expect it to catch up shortly so we queue another
tasklet execution and hope for the best.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/1501
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200327201433.21864-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 35f3fd8182ba26e766f7b814e903acf19d01bbb5)
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index 683014e7bc51..cd63f431d662 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -1915,11 +1915,26 @@ static void execlists_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	 * of trouble.
 	 */
 	active = READ_ONCE(execlists->active);
-	while ((last = *active) && i915_request_completed(last))
-		active++;
 
-	if (last) {
+	/*
+	 * In theory we can skip over completed contexts that have not
+	 * yet been processed by events (as those events are in flight):
+	 *
+	 * while ((last = *active) && i915_request_completed(last))
+	 *	active++;
+	 *
+	 * However, the GPU cannot handle this as it will ultimately
+	 * find itself trying to jump back into a context it has just
+	 * completed and barf.
+	 */
+
+	if ((last = *active)) {
 		if (need_preempt(engine, last, rb)) {
+			if (i915_request_completed(last)) {
+				tasklet_hi_schedule(&execlists->tasklet);
+				return;
+			}
+
 			ENGINE_TRACE(engine,
 				     "preempting last=%llx:%lld, prio=%d, hint=%d\n",
 				     last->fence.context,
@@ -1947,6 +1962,11 @@ static void execlists_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 			last = NULL;
 		} else if (need_timeslice(engine, last) &&
 			   timer_expired(&engine->execlists.timer)) {
+			if (i915_request_completed(last)) {
+				tasklet_hi_schedule(&execlists->tasklet);
+				return;
+			}
+
 			ENGINE_TRACE(engine,
 				     "expired last=%llx:%lld, prio=%d, hint=%d\n",
 				     last->fence.context,
-- 
2.26.0