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agp/intel: Fix the pre-9xx chipset flush.

Message ID 1252640753-6306-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net (mailing list archive)
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Eric Anholt Sept. 11, 2009, 3:45 a.m. UTC
Ever since we enabled GEM, the pre-9xx chipsets (particularly 865) have had
serious stability issues.  Back in May a wbinvd was added to the DRM to
work around much of the problem.  Some failure remained -- easily visible
by dragging a window around on an X -retro desktop, or by looking at bugzilla.

The chipset flush was on the right track -- hitting the right amount of
memory, and it appears to be the only way to flush on these chipsets, but the
flush page was mapped uncached.  As a result, the writes trying to clear the
writeback cache ended up bypassing the cache, and not flushing anything!  The
wbinvd would flush out other writeback data and often cause the data we wanted
to get flushed, but not always.  By removing the setting of the page to UC
and instead just clflushing the data we write to try to flush it, we get the
desired behavior with no wbinvd.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
 drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c    |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c |   10 ----------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
index c172917..e8dc75f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
+++ b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
@@ -682,23 +682,39 @@  static void intel_i830_setup_flush(void)
 	if (!intel_private.i8xx_page)
 		return;
 
-	/* make page uncached */
-	map_page_into_agp(intel_private.i8xx_page);
-
 	intel_private.i8xx_flush_page = kmap(intel_private.i8xx_page);
 	if (!intel_private.i8xx_flush_page)
 		intel_i830_fini_flush();
 }
 
+static void
+do_wbinvd(void *null)
+{
+	wbinvd();
+}
+
+/* The chipset_flush interface needs to get data that has already been
+ * flushed out of the CPU all the way out to main memory, because the GPU
+ * doesn't snoop those buffers.
+ *
+ * The 8xx series doesn't have the same lovely interface for flushing the
+ * chipset write buffers that the later chips do. According to the 865
+ * specs, it's 64 octwords, or 1KB.  So, to get those previous things in
+ * that buffer out, we just fill 1KB and clflush it out, on the assumption
+ * that it'll push whatever was in there out.  It appears to work.
+ */
 static void intel_i830_chipset_flush(struct agp_bridge_data *bridge)
 {
 	unsigned int *pg = intel_private.i8xx_flush_page;
-	int i;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < 256; i += 2)
-		*(pg + i) = i;
+	memset(pg, 0, 1024);
 
-	wmb();
+	if (cpu_has_clflush) {
+		clflush_cache_range(pg, 1024);
+	} else {
+		if (on_each_cpu(do_wbinvd, NULL, 1) != 0)
+			printk(KERN_ERR "Timed out waiting for cache flush.\n");
+	}
 }
 
 /* The intel i830 automatically initializes the agp aperture during POST.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index f3758f9..30ea4b6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2511,16 +2511,6 @@  i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
 	if (obj_priv->pages == NULL)
 		return;
 
-	/* XXX: The 865 in particular appears to be weird in how it handles
-	 * cache flushing.  We haven't figured it out, but the
-	 * clflush+agp_chipset_flush doesn't appear to successfully get the
-	 * data visible to the PGU, while wbinvd + agp_chipset_flush does.
-	 */
-	if (IS_I865G(obj->dev)) {
-		wbinvd();
-		return;
-	}
-
 	drm_clflush_pages(obj_priv->pages, obj->size / PAGE_SIZE);
 }