[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH] radv: Invalidate L2 for TRANSFER_WRITE barriers

[Bas Nieuwenhuizen]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Alex Smith <asmith at feralinteractive.com> wrote:
> On 28 March 2017 at 17:09, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 22 March 2017 at 10:06, Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alex Smith
>> > <asmith at feralinteractive.com> wrote:
>> >> CP DMA and PKT3_WRITE_DATA (in CmdUpdateBuffer) don't (currently) write
>> >> through L2. Therefore, to make these writes visible to later accesses
>> >> we must invalidate L2 rather than just writing it back, to avoid the
>> >> possibility that stale data is read through L2.
>> >>
>> >> Cc: "17.0" <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <asmith at feralinteractive.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> It's possible for both CP DMA and PKT3_WRITE_DATA to write through L2
>> >> as far as I can see, and changing things so that they do also solves
>> >> the problems that this patch fixes.
>> >>
>> >> However, I don't know what the exact consequences of doing so are, or
>> >> whether there are any situations where that shouldn't be done, so I've
>> >> gone with this fix instead as it seems like a safer option for now.
>> >
>> > Yeah we should be able to. I'm more comfortable sending this patch to
>> > stable though, so this patch is
>> >
>> Bas, others,
>>
>> Patch addresses radv_{src,dst}_access_flush() which landed with commit
>> 6dbb0eaccc3, after the 17.0 branchpoint.
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>
> Oops, my mistake.
>
> I think radv_CmdPipelineBarrier on the 17.0 branch still needs
> RADV_CMD_FLAG_INV_GLOBAL_L2 added for TRANSFER_WRITE barriers at least. Bas,
> do you think that should be added in a separate patch just for stable, or
> would you prefer to push those later changes to stable as well? Looks like
> there's some fixes in those as well.

I'd prefer to backport this patch. The other patches IMO contain too
much risk for regression and are actually mostly for optimizations.
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> Alex
>
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>> From a quick look, the functions has been fixed/enhanced with the
>> following 7 commits. Some of which require additional patches.
>> If we want this in stable, please provide a backport or branch based
>> on top of mesa-17.0.2.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Emil
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