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Commit 2267f684 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915/gt: Flush gen3 relocs harder, again

gen3 does not fully flush MI stores to memory on MI_FLUSH, such that a
subsequent read from e.g. the sampler can bypass the store and read the
stale value from memory. This is a serious issue when we are using MI
stores to rewrite the batches for relocation, as it means that the batch
is reading from random user/kernel memory. While it is particularly
sensitive [and detectable] for relocations, reading stale data at any
time is a worry.

Having started with a small number of delaying stores and doubling until
no more incoherency was seen over a few hours (with and without
background memory pressure), 32 was the magic number.

Note that it definitely doesn't fix the issue, merely adds a long delay
between requests, sufficient to mostly hide the problem, enough to raise
the mtbf to several hours. This is merely a stop gap.

v2: Follow more closer with the gen5 w/a and include some
post-invalidate flushes as well.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2018


References: a889580c ("drm/i915: Flush GPU relocs harder for gen3")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200612123949.7093-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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