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From: "Gupta, Sourab" <sourab.gupta@intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Rename GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 03:29:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395458987.19358.53.camel@sourabgu-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395422334-23544-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 17:18 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> The documentation calls this GFX_MODE bit "Flush TLB invalidate Mode".
> However, that is not a good name for an enable bit as it doesn't make it
> clear what is enabled. An even worse name is GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS
> as enabling that bit actually prevents the TLB from being invalidated at
> every flush. This leads to great confusion when reading code and
> proposed patches. To get around this try to bake in what is enabled by
> setting the bit and call it GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_EXPLICIT.
> 

This looks fine. It clears the confusion around TLB INVALIDATE Bit.
We'll be developing our patch on top of this and sending the full series
of WA patches for VLV.

> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: "Gupta, Sourab" <sourab.gupta@intel.com>
> ---
> Alternatively, we could call it GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_MANUAL.
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> index 9476b483417a..cd5ac2e03c7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ enum punit_power_well {
>  #define GFX_MODE_GEN7	0x0229c
>  #define RING_MODE_GEN7(ring)	((ring)->mmio_base+0x29c)
>  #define   GFX_RUN_LIST_ENABLE		(1<<15)
> -#define   GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS	(1<<13)
> +#define   GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_EXPLICIT	(1<<13)
>  #define   GFX_SURFACE_FAULT_ENABLE	(1<<12)
>  #define   GFX_REPLAY_MODE		(1<<11)
>  #define   GFX_PSMI_GRANULARITY		(1<<10)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index 99b1d8e15711..9470e51f0c9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -595,11 +595,11 @@ static int init_render_ring(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
>  	/* Required for the hardware to program scanline values for waiting */
>  	if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen == 6)
>  		I915_WRITE(GFX_MODE,
> -			   _MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS));
> +			   _MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_EXPLICIT));
>  
>  	if (IS_GEN7(dev))
>  		I915_WRITE(GFX_MODE_GEN7,
> -			   _MASKED_BIT_DISABLE(GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS) |
> +			   _MASKED_BIT_DISABLE(GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_EXPLICIT) |
>  			   _MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(GFX_REPLAY_MODE));
>  
>  	if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen >= 5) {
> @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static int init_render_ring(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
>  		 * TODO: consider explicitly setting the bit for GEN5
>  		 */
>  		ring->itlb_before_ctx_switch =
> -			!!(I915_READ(GFX_MODE) & GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS);
> +			!!(I915_READ(GFX_MODE) & GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_EXPLICIT);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen >= 6)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-22  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-21 17:18 [PATCH] drm/i915: Rename GFX_TLB_INVALIDATE_ALWAYS Chris Wilson
2014-03-22  3:29 ` Gupta, Sourab [this message]
2014-03-22 11:23   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-03-23  8:50     ` Gupta, Sourab

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