[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915: Pipeline PDP updates for Braswell

2018-11-30 Thread Chris Wilson
Currently we face a severe problem on Braswell that manifests as invalid ppGTT accesses. The code tries to maintain the PDP (page directory pointers) inside the context in two ways, direct write into the context and a pipelined LRI update. The direct write into the context is fundamentally racy as

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915: Pipeline PDP updates for Braswell

2018-11-29 Thread Chris Wilson
Currently we face a severe problem on Braswell that manifests as invalid ppGTT accesses. The code tries to maintain the PDP (page directory pointers) inside the context in two ways, direct write into the context and a pipelined LRI update. The direct write into the context is fundamentally racy as