Re: [PATCH 06/64] drm: Restore double clflush on the last partial cacheline

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This effectively reverts
> 
> commit afcd950cafea6e27b739fe7772cbbeed37d05b8b
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date:   Wed Jun 10 15:58:01 2015 +0100
> 
>     drm: Avoid the double clflush on the last cache line in drm_clflush_virt_range()
> 
> as we have observed issues with serialisation of the clflush operations
> on Baytrail+ Atoms with partial updates. Applying the double flush on the
> last cacheline forces that clflush to be ordered with respect to the
> previous clflush, and the mfence then protects against prefetches crossing
> the clflush boundary.
> 
> The same issue can be demonstrated in userspace with igt/gem_exec_flush.
> 
> Fixes: afcd950cafea6 (drm: Avoid the double clflush on the last cache...)
> Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blit
> Testcase: igt/gem_partial_pread_pwrite
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92845
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand@intel.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>

It's duct-tape, but oh well. Applied to drm-misc.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> index 059f7c39c582..a7916e5f8864 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ drm_clflush_virt_range(void *addr, unsigned long length)
>  		mb();
>  		for (; addr < end; addr += size)
>  			clflushopt(addr);
> +		clflushopt(end - 1); /* force serialisation */
>  		mb();
>  		return;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.8.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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