Patch "drm/i915: Always mark the object as dirty when used by the GPU" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/i915: Always mark the object as dirty when used by the GPU

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-i915-always-mark-the-object-as-dirty-when-used-by-the-gpu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 51bc140431e233284660b1d22c47dec9ecdb521e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:10:39 +0100
Subject: drm/i915: Always mark the object as dirty when used by the GPU
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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

commit 51bc140431e233284660b1d22c47dec9ecdb521e upstream.

There have been many hard to track down bugs whereby userspace forgot to
flag a write buffer and then cause graphics corruption or a hung GPU
when that buffer was later purged under memory pressure (as the buffer
appeared clean, its pages would have been evicted rather than preserved
and any changes more recent than in the backing storage would be lost).
In retrospect this is a rare optimisation against memory pressure,
already the slow path. If we always mark the buffer as dirty when
accessed by the GPU, anything not used can still be evicted cheaply
(ideal behaviour for mark-and-sweep eviction) but we do not run the risk
of corruption. For correct read serialisation, userspace still has to
notify when the GPU writes to an object. However, there are certain
situations under which userspace may wish to tell white lies to the
kernel...

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.co>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_active(struc
 		u32 old_read = obj->base.read_domains;
 		u32 old_write = obj->base.write_domain;
 
+		obj->dirty = 1; /* be paranoid  */
 		obj->base.write_domain = obj->base.pending_write_domain;
 		if (obj->base.write_domain == 0)
 			obj->base.pending_read_domains |= obj->base.read_domains;
@@ -1032,7 +1033,6 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_active(struc
 
 		i915_vma_move_to_active(vma, ring);
 		if (obj->base.write_domain) {
-			obj->dirty = 1;
 			i915_gem_request_assign(&obj->last_write_req, req);
 
 			intel_fb_obj_invalidate(obj, ring, ORIGIN_CS);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chris@chris-wilson.co.uk are

queue-4.1/drm-i915-always-mark-the-object-as-dirty-when-used-by-the-gpu.patch