[PATCH 3.13 170/187] drm/i915: read HEAD register back in init_ring_common() to enforce ordering

Kamal Mostafa
2014-09-15T22:36:54Z

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

commit ece4a17d237a79f63fbfaf3f724a12b6d500555c upstream.

Withtout this, ring initialization fails reliabily during resume with

[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 head ffffff8804 tail 00000000 start 000e4000

This is not a complete fix, but it is verified to make the ring
initialization failures during resume much less likely.

We were not able to root-cause this bug (likely HW-specific to Gen4 chips)
yet. This is therefore used as a ducttape before problem is fully
understood and proper fix created, so that people don't suffer from
completely unusable systems in the meantime.

The discussion and debugging is happening at

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 53f5458..dfb8546 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ static int init_ring_common(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
}
}

+ /* Enforce ordering by reading HEAD register back */
+ I915_READ_HEAD(ring);
+
/* Initialize the ring. This must happen _after_ we've cleared the ring
* registers with the above sequence (the readback of the HEAD registers
* also enforces ordering), otherwise the hw might lose the new ring
--
1.9.1