drm/i915: Prevent machine death on Ivybridge context switching
Two concurrent writes into the same register cacheline has the chance of killing the machine on Ivybridge and other gen7. This includes LRI emitted from the command parser. The MI_SET_CONTEXT itself serves as serialising barrier and prevents the pair of register writes in the first packet from triggering the fault. However, if a second switch-context immediately occurs then we may have two adjacent blocks of LRI to the same registers which may then trigger the hang. To counteract this we need to insert a delay after the second register write using SRM. This is easiest to reproduce with something like igt/gem_ctx_switch/interruptible that triggers back-to-back context switches (with no operations in between them in the command stream, which requires the execbuf operation to be interrupted after the MI_SET_CONTEXT) but can be observed sporadically elsewhere when running interruptible igt. No reports from the wild though, so it must be of low enough frequency that no one has correlated the random machine freezes with i915.ko The issue was introduced with commit 2c550183 [v3.19] Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Tue Dec 16 10:02:27 2014 +0000 drm/i915: Disable PSMI sleep messages on all rings around context switches Testcase: igt/gem_ctx_switch/render-interruptible #ivb Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1460565315-7748-11-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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