[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Flush WC GGTT only on required platforms

[Nirmoy Das]

On 10/13/2023 6:15 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 02:28:21PM +0200, Nirmoy Das wrote:
>> Hi Ville,
>>
>> On 10/13/2023 12:50 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Nirmoy Das wrote:
>>>> gen8_ggtt_invalidate() is only needed for limitted set of platforms
>>>> where GGTT is mapped as WC
>>> I know there is supposed to be some kind hw snooping of the ggtt
>>> pte writes to invalidate the tlb, but are we sure GFX_FLSH_CNTL
>>> has no other side effects we depend on?
>> I spent some time searching through the gfxspec. This GFX_FLSH_CNTL register
>> only seems to be for
>>
>> invalidating TLB for GUnit  and (from git log ) we started to do that to
>> enable WC based GGTT updates.
> Might be good to cite the relevant git commits in the commit message to
> make this clear.

Yes, I should. It took me a while to find it. Going to add that and 
resend the patch.


Thanks,

Nirmoy

> -Sima
>
>>
>> So if I am not missing anything obvious then this should be safe.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nirmoy
>>
>>>> otherwise this can cause unwanted
>>>> side-effects on XE_HP platforms where GFX_FLSH_CNTL_GEN6 is not
>>>> valid.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: d2eae8e98d59 ("drm/i915/dg2: Drop force_probe requirement")
>>>> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Jonathan Cavitt <jonathan.cavitt at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: John Harrison <john.c.harrison at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.2+
>>>> Suggested-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das at intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c | 6 +++++-
>>>>    1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> index 4d7d88b92632..c2858d434bce 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt.c
>>>> @@ -197,13 +197,17 @@ void gen6_ggtt_invalidate(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>>    static void gen8_ggtt_invalidate(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>>    {
>>>> +	struct drm_i915_private *i915 = ggtt->vm.i915;
>>>>    	struct intel_uncore *uncore = ggtt->vm.gt->uncore;
>>>>    	/*
>>>>    	 * Note that as an uncached mmio write, this will flush the
>>>>    	 * WCB of the writes into the GGTT before it triggers the invalidate.
>>>> +	 *
>>>> +	 * Only perform this when GGTT is mapped as WC, see ggtt_probe_common().
>>>>    	 */
>>>> -	intel_uncore_write_fw(uncore, GFX_FLSH_CNTL_GEN6, GFX_FLSH_CNTL_EN);
>>>> +	if (!IS_GEN9_LP(i915) && GRAPHICS_VER(i915) < 11)
>>>> +		intel_uncore_write_fw(uncore, GFX_FLSH_CNTL_GEN6, GFX_FLSH_CNTL_EN);
>>>>    }
>>>>    static void guc_ggtt_invalidate(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.41.0