On 08.05.2018 13:15, Chris Wilson wrote:
> We assume that the CSB is written using the normal ringbuffer
> coherency protocols, as outlined in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:
>
> * (HW) (DRIVER)
> *
> * if (LOAD ->data_tail) { LOAD ->data_head
> * (A) smp_rmb() (C)
> * STORE $data LOAD $data
> * smp_wmb() (B) smp_mb() (D)
> * STORE ->data_head STORE ->data_tail
> * }
>
> So we assume that the HW fulfils it's ordering requirements, and so we
> should use a complimentary rmb() to ensure that our read of its WRITE
> pointer is completed before we start accessing the data.
>
> The final mb() is implied by the uncached mmio we perform to inform the
> HW of our READ pointer.
>
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105064
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105888
> References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106185
> References: 61bf9719fa17 ("drm/i915/cnl: Use mmio access to context status
> buffer")
> Suggested-by: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michał Winiarski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rafael Antognolli <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michel Thierry <[email protected]>
> Cc: Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]>
Seems to work here on CNL-Y just like 61bf9719fa17.
Tested-by: Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]>
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