On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:52:51PM +0100, Dave Gordon wrote:
> On 03/07/15 16:42, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:27:31PM +0100, Arun Siluvery wrote:
> >>In this WA we need to set GEN8_L3SQCREG4[21:21] and reset it after 
> >>PIPE_CONTROL
> >>instruction but there is a slight complication as this is applied in WA 
> >>batch
> >>where the values are only initialized once.
> >>Dave identified an issue with the current implementation where the register 
> >>value
> >>is read once at the beginning and it is reused; this patch corrects this by 
> >>saving
> >>the register value to memory, update register with the bit of our interest 
> >>and
> >>restore it back with original value.
> >>
> >>This implementation uses MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM which is currently only used
> >>by command parser and was using a default length of 0. This is now updated
> >>with correct length and moved to appropriate place.
> >>
> >>Cc: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >>Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gor...@intel.com>
> >>Signed-off-by: Arun Siluvery <arun.siluv...@linux.intel.com>
> >>---
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c |  6 +--
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h        |  3 +-
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c       | 72 
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>  3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c 
> >>b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> >>index 306d9e4..430571b 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> >>@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static const struct drm_i915_cmd_descriptor 
> >>common_cmds[] = {
> >>                    .mask = MI_GLOBAL_GTT,
> >>                    .expected = 0,
> >>          }},                                                      ),
> >>-   CMD(  MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM,             SMI,   !F,  0xFF,   W | B,
> >>+   CMD(  MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(1),             SMI,   !F,  0xFF,   W | B,
> >>          .reg = { .offset = 1, .mask = 0x007FFFFC },
> >>          .bits = {{
> >>                    .offset = 0,
> >>@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static bool check_cmd(const struct intel_engine_cs 
> >>*ring,
> >>                     * only MI_LOAD_REGISTER_IMM commands.
> >>                     */
> >>                    if (reg_addr == OACONTROL) {
> >>-                           if (desc->cmd.value == MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM) {
> >>+                           if (desc->cmd.value == MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(1)) 
> >>{
> >
> >I had a double take here, but it all comes out in the wash. For one
> >moment, I thought the cmd matching had changed, but that has the length
> >masked out.
> >
> >Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@cris-wilson.co.uk>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.

> >Who will start to complain about all the extra frequent register writes,
> >probably into common power wells....
> >-Chris
> 
> Hmm ... that is quite confusing, especially as the actual opcode in the
> instruction stream will be MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(2) on GEN8+. It might almost
> be better to use MI_LOAD_REGISTER_MEM(0) to emphasise that the length field
> is a wildcard and not something that will be matched exactly.

There's a separate _GEN8 #define to accomodate the differences, so I don't
fully understand your concern. We also don't do any decoding in the kernel
...
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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