[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Program mocs:63 for cache eviction on gen9

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:55:39AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Ville noticed that the last mocs entry is used unconditionally by the HW
> when it performs cache evictions, and noted that while the value is not
> meant to be writable by the driver, we should program it to a reasonable
> value nevertheless.
> 
> As it turns out, we can change the value of mocs:63 and the value we
> were programming into it would cause hard hangs in conjunction with
> atomic operations.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2707
> Fixes: 3bbaba0ceaa2 ("drm/i915: Added Programming of the MOCS")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v4.3+
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c
> index 254873e1646e..6ae512847f64 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c
> @@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ static const struct drm_i915_mocs_entry skl_mocs_table[] = {
>  	GEN9_MOCS_ENTRIES,
>  	MOCS_ENTRY(I915_MOCS_CACHED,
>  		   LE_3_WB | LE_TC_2_LLC_ELLC | LE_LRUM(3),
> -		   L3_3_WB)
> +		   L3_3_WB),
> +	MOCS_ENTRY(63,

Wonder if we should give these magic MOCS entries actual names?

Anyways, matches my reading of the spec
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

> +		   LE_3_WB | LE_TC_1_LLC | LE_LRUM(3),
> +		   L3_1_UC)
>  };
>  
>  /* NOTE: the LE_TGT_CACHE is not used on Broxton */
> -- 
> 2.20.1

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel