drm/i915/gen9: Add framework to whitelist specific GPU registers
Some of the HW registers are privileged and cannot be written to from non-privileged batch buffers coming from userspace unless they are added to the HW whitelist. This whitelist is maintained by HW and it is different from SW whitelist. Userspace need write access to them to implement preemption related WA. The reason for using this approach is, the register bits that control preemption granularity at the HW level are not context save/restored; so even if we set these bits always in kernel they are going to change once the context is switched out. We can consider making them non-privileged by default but these registers also contain other chicken bits which should not be allowed to be modified. In the later revisions controlling bits are save/restored at context level but in the existing revisions these are exported via other debug registers and should be on the whitelist. This patch adds changes to provide HW with a list of registers to be whitelisted. HW checks this list during execution and provides access accordingly. HW imposes a limit on the number of registers on whitelist and it is per-engine. At this point we are only enabling whitelist for RCS and we don't foresee any requirement for other engines. The registers to be whitelisted are added using generic workaround list mechanism, even these are only enablers for userspace workarounds. But by sharing this mechanism we get some test assets without additional cost (Mika). v2: rebase v3: parameterize RING_FORCE_TO_NONPRIV() as _MMIO() should be limited to i915_reg.h (Ville), drop inline for wa_ring_whitelist_reg (Mika). v4: improvements suggested by Chris Wilson. Clarify that this is HW whitelist and different from the one maintained in driver. This list is engine specific but it gets initialized along with other WA which is RCS specific thing, so make it clear that we are not doing any cross engine setup during initialization. Make HW whitelist count of each engine available in debugfs. Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Arun Siluvery <arun.siluvery@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1453412634-29238-2-git-send-email-arun.siluvery@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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