On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> We may only start to set up the new register values after having
> confirmed that the ring is truely off. Otherwise the hw might lose the
> newly written register values. This is caught later on in the init
> sequence, when we check whether the register writes have stuck.

With or without (up to you) the comment clarification discussed in IRC,

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>


>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50522
> Tested-by: Yang Guang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index bf0195a..5b19917 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -289,8 +289,6 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer 
> *ring)
>       I915_WRITE_HEAD(ring, 0);
>       ring->write_tail(ring, 0);
>  
> -     /* Initialize the ring. */
> -     I915_WRITE_START(ring, obj->gtt_offset);
>       head = I915_READ_HEAD(ring) & HEAD_ADDR;
>  
>       /* G45 ring initialization fails to reset head to zero */
> @@ -316,6 +314,10 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer 
> *ring)
>               }
>       }
>  
> +     /* Initialize the ring. This must happen _after_ we have confirmed that
> +      * the ring is off (with the above head == 0 check), otherwise the hw
> +      * might lose the new ring register values. */
> +     I915_WRITE_START(ring, obj->gtt_offset);
>       I915_WRITE_CTL(ring,
>                       ((ring->size - PAGE_SIZE) & RING_NR_PAGES)
>                       | RING_VALID);
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
>
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