Patch "drm/i915: Flag the execlists context object as dirty after every use" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

Patch "drm/i915: Flag the execlists context object as dirty after every use" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    drm/i915: Flag the execlists context object as dirty after every use

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-flag-the-execlists-context-object-as-dirty-after-every-use.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 903ecd0bb970438c3a60c2c33ec9032d6443bf67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:59:19 +0100
Subject: drm/i915: Flag the execlists context object as dirty after every use

From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

commit 903ecd0bb970438c3a60c2c33ec9032d6443bf67 upstream.

Everytime we use the logical context with execlists it becomes dirty (as
the hardware will write the new register values afterwards, as well as
the GPU state that will be used). We need to then flag the context as
dirty everytime since after a swap-out/swap-in cycle the dirty flag will
be cleared, and a further swap-out cycle will then loose the most recent
GPU state.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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/intel_lrc.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -848,6 +848,8 @@ static int intel_lr_context_pin(struct i
 		ret = intel_pin_and_map_ringbuffer_obj(ring->dev, ringbuf);
 		if (ret)
 			goto unpin_ctx_obj;
+
+		ctx_obj->dirty = true;
 	}
 
 	return ret;


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

queue-4.1/drm-i915-flag-the-execlists-context-object-as-dirty-after-every-use.patch