On Thu, 02 Jan 2014, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In very rare cases (such as a memory failure stress test) it is possible
> to fill the entire ring without emitting a request. Under this
> circumstance, the outstanding request is flushed and waited upon. After
> space on the ring is cleared, we return to emitting the new command -
> except that we just cleared the seqno allocated for this operation and
> trigger the sanity check that a request is only ever emitted with a
> valid seqno. The fix is to rearrange the code to make sure the
> allocation of the seqno for this operation is after any required flushes
> of outstanding operations.
>
> The bug exists since the preallocation was introduced in
> commit 9d7730914f4cd496e356acfab95b41075aa8eae8
> Author: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Date:   Tue Nov 27 16:22:52 2012 +0000
>
>     drm/i915: Preallocate next seqno before touching the ring
>

I can't claim to be an expert in the area, but the explanation and code
make sense.

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>

> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index 5744841669e4..6bb914e49bf0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -1610,8 +1610,8 @@ intel_ring_alloc_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
>       return i915_gem_get_seqno(ring->dev, &ring->outstanding_lazy_seqno);
>  }
>  
> -static int __intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
> -                           int bytes)
> +static int __intel_ring_prepare(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
> +                             int bytes)
>  {
>       int ret;
>  
> @@ -1627,7 +1627,6 @@ static int __intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_buffer 
> *ring,
>                       return ret;
>       }
>  
> -     ring->space -= bytes;
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1642,12 +1641,17 @@ int intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
>       if (ret)
>               return ret;
>  
> +     ret = __intel_ring_prepare(ring, num_dwords * sizeof(uint32_t));
> +     if (ret)
> +             return ret;
> +
>       /* Preallocate the olr before touching the ring */
>       ret = intel_ring_alloc_seqno(ring);
>       if (ret)
>               return ret;
>  
> -     return __intel_ring_begin(ring, num_dwords * sizeof(uint32_t));
> +     ring->space -= num_dwords * sizeof(uint32_t);
> +     return 0;
>  }
>  
>  void intel_ring_init_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 seqno)
> -- 
> 1.8.5.2
>
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