drm/i915/gt: Program mocs:63 for cache eviction on gen9
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:08:41 +0000 (14:08 +0000)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:17:50 +0000 (14:17 +0000)
commit977933b5da7c16f39295c4c1d4259a58ece65dbe
tree24eccea5dfac399b534603cbc6ae6653c169d841
parent2f87c053ac489309c04b51f788e2b4f13a737ca9
drm/i915/gt: Program mocs:63 for cache eviction on gen9

Ville noticed that the last mocs entry is used unconditionally by the HW
when it performs cache evictions, and noted that while the value is not
meant to be writable by the driver, we should program it to a reasonable
value nevertheless.

As it turns out, we can change the value of mocs:63 and the value we
were programming into it would cause hard hangs in conjunction with
atomic operations.

v2: Add details from bspec about how it is used by HW

Suggested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2707
Fixes: 3bbaba0ceaa2 ("drm/i915: Added Programming of the MOCS")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.3+
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201126140841.1982-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c